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Team management tips
How to effectively manage your teams and encourage harmonious teamwork
Here's how we run a social enterprise - Loaf Catering (video)
How Loaf Catering operates as a social enterprise, generates income and engages with the local community
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
Selling
Preparing to sell. The sales process. Choose and manage a commercial agent. Forecast and plan your sales. Spotting market opportunities. Increase your market share. Identify potential sales channels. Overview on selling to government. ...
Pricing
Competing fairly. Price indications. Price lists, estimates, quotations and tenders. Price your product or service.
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
Taking advantage of craft tourism opportunities - The Steensons
Using staff benefits to motivate and retain staff - Outsource Solutions
What is screen tourism?
Definition of screen and film tourism, including examples in Austria, New Zealand and Northern Ireland
Starting a business: ongoing training
Training will support the development of a business, understand the importance of ongoing training
Writing a good job advert
Tips for writing a good job advertisement
Demonstrate good environmental compliance
Show your environmental credentials to become a more attractive business to contractors in Northern Ireland when preparing your business for tender
Find contracts and tender successfully
Put your business in the best position to find and win tender competitions in Northern Ireland, Great Britain, Republic of Ireland and the EU
Biometric residence permits
Information on biometric residence permits for individuals from outside the European Economic Area
Create your sales plan
How a sales plan will help you to sell your product or service