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Fire safety: record, review and revise
Keeping and maintaining records of fire safety procedures and testing fire safety equipment.
Using a sales agent
Advice on using an outside agency to sell your products and services, and the legal issues this can raise.
Resource efficiency support for your hotel
Where you can get help, support and advice to improve resource efficiency in your hotel including Invest NI, the Carbon Trust and Love Food, Hate Waste
Responsibilities for maintenance of commercial properties
Division of responsibilities between landlords and tenants for maintenance and repair of commercial premises.
Health and safety responsibilities in rented business property
Who is responsible for health and safety duties for rented business premises.
Business networks in Northern Ireland
Use business clubs and forums to make contacts and promote your business in Northern Ireland
Create your sales plan
How a sales plan will help you to sell your product or service
Online selling
How your business can successfully use the internet to sell its products or service including creating an online shop and marketing online
Stock control administration
An administrator or stock controllers' duties, typical paperwork and auditing or checking stock
Recycling waste in your hotel
The benefits of recycling waste in your hotel, and consideration for starting a recycling scheme including which materials are suitable for recycling
Distance selling
The rules and regulations on distance selling (eg phone, mail order, online) and how to do it effectively.
Selling through retailers, wholesalers and other distributors
The benefits of selling to intermediaries and the key points to consider including how to manage your distributors.
Making your sales channels work together
How to manage your sales channels to increase sales including reviewing each channel and supporting them with advertising.
Reaching customers overseas
Reaching customers in overseas markets and the challenges you should consider such as resources, research and local laws.
Advantages and disadvantages of face to face sales
The costs and benefits associated with selling in person such as building personal relationships and persuasion.
Material efficiency and reducing waste in your hotel
How to reduce waste and use materials more efficiently in areas across your hotel including procurement and office, bedroom, kitchen and cleaning consumables
Save water in your hotel
Use water more efficiently in your hotel in guest rooms, catering, laundry, swimming pools and grounds maintenance, investigate alternative water sources
Ten top tips for resource efficiency in your hotel
Easy-to-follow tips for improving energy, water and materials efficiency and reducing waste in your hotel, from controlling bedroom temperatures to recycling
Energy efficiency in your hotel
Save money, enhance your reputation and help the environment by making your hotel more energy efficient through best practice environmental techniques
Negotiate and close the sale
How to manage a negotiation, and ways of getting the client to commit to your product or service