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Sales and marketing for start-ups
Guides on how to maximise sales and how to deploy marketing to attract customers to your startup business
Protect your business ideas
Guides on how to protect the unique and innovative aspects of your startup idea and intellectual property in your new business
Hire staff
Guides to help you when employing staff in your startup business and the legal responsibilities you have as an employer
Checklist: set up as a sole trader
A checklist of things you must do, and organisations you must make contact with, to set yourself up as a sole trader
Checklist: set up a business partnership
A handy checklist of steps you must take when you are initially setting up your business partnership
Checklist: set up a limited company
A useful list of things you need to do to when setting up a limited company and organisations you need to contact
Compliance and regulatory risk
How to identify and manage compliance and regulatory risks in your business
Operational risk
Understand the sources of operational risk and how to minimise the impact of operational problems in your business
Problems with growth: overtrading
Overtrading and lack of finance are common problems in a fast-growing business - here's how to overcome them
Water use authorisations
When you need an authorisation or licence for taking or storing water from a surface or groundwater source
Reduce, reuse and recycle packaging
How to save your business money by reducing the amount of packaging you use, and other efficiency ideas
Exporting WEEE
Regulations you must follow if you want to export waste electrical and electronic equipment overseas
Operating a WEEE producer compliance scheme
How you can operate a producer compliance scheme for waste electrical and electronic equipment
Starting a business: ongoing training
Training will support the development of a business, understand the importance of ongoing training
Life cycle assessment
How to assess the life cycle of your products and services to calculate the possible impact on the environment
Corporate ecosystem services assessment
How to assess how your business depends and impacts on natural resources and services
How to reduce packaging waste
Ways of reducing the packaging waste from your business, from better packaging design to reuse and recycling
Packaging design and use - your environmental responsibilities
What your business must do to comply with the Packaging (Essential Requirements) Regulations if you’re in scope
Packaging design and use - exemptions from the regulations
When your business might be exempt from the Packaging (Essential Requirements) Regulations and specific examples
Packaging producer obligations - who they apply to
Find out if the producer responsibility obligations for packaging and packaging waste apply to your business