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Assess your skills and resources for exporting
Exporting demands extra time, money and skills.
Manage export contracts and logistics
Understanding export contracts, delivery and payments.
Plan your export market entry strategy
Choosing the right distribution channels and ways of promoting your product in overseas markets.
Use the right export support services
Government help for exporters and other sources of information and support.
Preparing to export
Assessing whether you are ready to export and planning your approach.
Managing the supermarket supplier relationship
How to complain about a supermarket if you are a direct supplier and feel you have been unlawfully or unfairly treated.
Export checklist: review your export readiness
Export readiness review: planning, marketing and export procedures.
Accounting for VAT on goods moving between Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Information about when you can, or need to, account for VAT on your tax return if you're a UK VAT-registered business.
Selling our products through supermarkets - Genesis Crafty (video)
Video case study with Genesis Crafty explaining how they successfully sell their products through supermarkets.
Monitor staff correctly and lawfully
How to monitor your staff in accordance with the law and best practices.
Penalties for improper staff monitoring
The right and wrong way to monitor workers, and the penalties for improper staff monitoring.
Food and drink business support and funding
Where to get advice, funding and skills support for food and drink businesses in Northern Ireland.
Funding support for food and drink businesses
Funding support for food and drink businesses in Northern Ireland.
Core skills all businesses require
Core skills your business needs to function successfully in areas including leadership, finance, and personnel.
Skills required by growing businesses
How the complexity and variety of skills your business needs to access increase as your business grows.
Leadership skills for business owners and directors
Skills that directors and business owners need to develop to be effective leaders.
Strategy skills for business owners and directors
How strategy can help your business, and how to use SWOT and gap analyses to determine business strategy.
Skills and training for directors and owners
The key skills needed by business owners and directors and how these skills can be developed.
Building a management team
Key considerations when building an effective management team for your business.
Essential Skills: developing literacy, numeracy and ICT skills
Essential Skills is a training programme that assists employees aged 16 and over in the development of literacy, numeracy and ICT skills up to level 2.