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Business exit strategy: selling your business
How to develop key business characteristics that will make selling your business to another business more likely.
Business exit strategy: float your business on the stock market
Characteristics your business will need to attract venture capital investment or for a stock-market flotation.
Exit strategy: key considerations when starting a business
Overview of the key start-up decisions that could affect your ability to successfully exit your business.
Business exit strategy: close your business
Overview of the circumstances in which you may close your business and the practicalities of how to go about it.
Online advertising
Cost-effective ideas for advertising on the internet including advertising through your own website, other websites and through search engines.
Outdoor advertising
The advantages of outdoor advertising such as billboards, posters, buses and ambient to reach your target audience in key locations.
Search engine optimisation: links strategy
Building incoming links to your page is a valuable way to improve your search engine rankings, find out effective tactics to get high quality backlinks.
Ten tips for using social media
Some tips to help make your social network work for you, including choosing the right platform, planning and measuring performance.
Print advertising
The advantages and disadvantages of press and print advertising, the options and types of publication you can choose to advertise in.
Develop your franchise format
The franchise operations manual, and protecting your brand.
Is franchising right for your business?
Offering franchisees a successful business model, and having the right resources and skills.
Evaluate advertising spend
How to plan and research your advertising to make best use of your advertising budget and evaluate and measure the success of your campaigns.
Advantages and disadvantages of face to face sales
The costs and benefits associated with selling in person such as building personal relationships and persuasion.
Making an entry summary declaration
If you are moving goods into Great Britain, from Great Britain to Northern Ireland, or into Northern Ireland from outside the EU, you’ll need to make an entry summary declaration
Choosing a search engine optimisation agency: checklist
Use this checklist to determine whether an SEO agency is a suitable partner for your website, including avoiding unrealistic claims and checking references.
Voice search optimisation
How to optimise your website to answer smartphone and digital assistant voice search queries.
Working with a search engine optimisation agency
Learn how to work with a search engine optimisation (SEO agency), what they may be able to help you with and what to look for in a new SEO contract.
Advertising
Why every business should consider the possible benefits of advertising, how to get the most from it, types of advertising and the pros and cons of each.
Researching export markets
How to conduct export market research before selling to overseas markets.
How to write an advertisement
The key requirements of a print advertisement - a targeted headline, well-written text and clear design, follow these guidelines to write a quality advert.