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Solvent limits in vehicle refinishing products
Check that vehicle refinishing products you manufacture, import, distribute or sell meet relevant solvent limits.
Advantages of project management
Discover how project management methods and strategies can help you reduce risk, cut costs and improve success rates.
Assess your skills and resources for exporting
Exporting demands extra time, money and skills.
SWOT, PESTLE and other models for strategic analysis
Introduction to the common business analysis models, including SWOT and PESTLE analysis, scenario planning and Porter's Five Forces framework
Measure your financial performance
Use common financial performance measures, such as profit margins and accounting ratios, to review your business finances
Benchmark your business performance
Use benchmarking to measure your business performance against that of your competitors as a focus for your growth strategy
Competitor analysis
Performance metrics you can use to analyse your competitors, and how to use this information to inform your business decisions
How you can use product design
How careful design of your products can increase your profits and reduce your production costs
How to analyse water use in your business
How you can assess the cost of your business water use by analysing how much water you use across all operations
Costs of buying business property
Financial considerations you should take into account when purchasing commercial premises.
Placing manufactured products on the market in Great Britain
What you need to do to comply with regulations on manufactured products you place on the market in Great Britain.
Financial risk
Understand the main types of financial risks to your business and find ways to mitigate and reduce them
Strategies to help you manage business risk
Common strategies for treating the risks to your business are avoidance, acceptance, sharing, reduction and elimination
Different options for building your website
An overview of different web development options, including building the website yourself, using templates or hiring someone else to build it for you.
Storing and using solvents
How to minimise the risk of solvent leaks and spills by storing and handling solvents safely in your business.
Using your solvent emissions data
How to interpret and analyse your solvent emissions data when you put a solvent monitoring programme into practice.
Measure and benchmark your website performance
How to monitor and benchmark the performance of your website and use this data to improve your customers' experience.
Problems with growth: overtrading
Overtrading and lack of finance are common problems in a fast-growing business - here's how to overcome them
How to generate income from renewable energy
How to generate income from renewable energy, including export and feed-in tariffs and green energy certificates.
Northern Ireland Retail Movement Scheme: groupage and mixed load consignments
How to move groups of agrifood products from Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) to Northern Ireland, which may include consignments of Northern Ireland Retail Movement Scheme (NIRMS) goods and consignments of non-NIRMS goods.