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New marketing guidance to help you understand the law
The Information Commissioner's Office has published new direct marketing guidance on live marketing calls and electronic mail.
Paid promotions: guidance for social media companies, brands, and influencers
Social media users set to benefit from new hidden advertising protections.
Plant protection products registration deadline approaching
Businesses involved in supplying pesticides for home garden use or using pesticides professionally must register by 31 December 2022
Fully-funded course to help you master customer experience
Improve your customer experience offering by enrolling on the free Professional Certificate in Customer Experience course.
Agri-food businesses: Sale of defrosted poultry-meat
Information for Agri-food businesses in Northern Ireland on the sale of defrosted poultry-meat
Mid Ulster HGV Training and Employment Academy
Opportunities for employers to fill their logistics gaps.
Competing fairly
How to ensure your business complies with competition law
Start a sales forecasts
How to use last year's sales as a starting point for your forecast of next year's sales to help manage your business more effectively.
Food Waste Action Week 2023
Businesses are urged to get involved with the annual food waste prevention campaign, taking place from 6 to 12 March 2023.
Events to help employers find the right people for their industries
Free events to help employers in the life and health sciences and fintech sectors overcome the barriers to finding the right staff.
Identify e-commerce opportunities
The main opportunities for introducing e-commerce within your business including direct sales, pre-sales and post-sales support.
Price comparison rules: competitors
Complying with the law when you compare your selling prices to the prices that other traders charge and avoiding giving misleading pricing information.
Price comparison rules
How to stay within the law when you make price comparisons for your products or services and avoid giving misleading pricing information.
Price comparison rules: previous prices
Complying with the law when you compare your new selling prices to prices you charged previously and prevent giving out misleading information.
Pricing inspections
What to expect when a trading standards officer visits your premises.
Pricing information
Guidance for traders on the regulations covering selling price information they provide to consumers to prevent misleading them.
Made Smarter Innovation: Industry ready Robotics and Automation
Innovate UK is investing up to £6 million into late-stage robotics and automation innovation projects to improve manufacturing processes.
Running an e-commerce website
The activities you will have to undertake once your e-commerce site has been launched including maintenance, marketing and security.
User experience in e-commerce
How to make an e-commerce website easy to use for the customer, including the user interface, shopping cart and payment software.
Implementing e-commerce
The different technology-related decisions to consider prior to introducing an e-commerce service including specification, domain name and web hosting.