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Improve productivity to increase profits
Understand the relationship between productivity and profitability - their differences and impact on your business' bottom line.
Target your most profitable customers
How to identify your best customers and sell more products or services to those customers that will deliver the most profit.
Strategies to increase sales revenue
Try these strategies to increase your sales and boost the profitability of your customers, product lines and business.
Calculate your profit margins
How to work out your gross profit margin and your net profit, and use these measures to increase revenue and profitability of your business.
Is private equity investment right for your business?
How to work out if private equity investment is right for your business
Find the right private equity investor
How to find out which investors to approach and make sure you're ready for investment.
Value your business for investment
How to value your business and methods of valuation used by private equity businesses
Moving plants from Great Britain to Northern Ireland
What growers and traders need to do to move plants (including plants for planting, seeds, used agricultural and forestry machinery and vehicles and seed potatoes) using a Northern Ireland plant health label (NIPHL).
Manually arrive your goods in the UK
Additional steps you or someone acting on your behalf may need to take to tell HMRC that your goods have arrived in the UK at a location using the Goods Vehicle Movement Service.
Apply to use simplified declarations for imports you entered in your records without authorisation
Choose how you’ll make supplementary declarations for goods that you entered into your own records without authorisation.
Import and export procedures
Learn about the various procedures when importing and exporting
Importing and exporting fresh fruit and vegetables
Rules for importing, exporting and moving fresh fruit and vegetables to, from and around the UK.
Use social media safely
How to take measures to ensure your business is using social media safely and securely, protecting your reputation, securing data and being aware of the law.
Social media and the employment relationship
Things to consider when employees use social media including developing a social media policy, monitoring social media, legislation and network security.
Product compliance when placing certain goods on the Northern Ireland market
Guidance for businesses on EU market surveillance rules that apply to certain products placed on the Northern Ireland market.
Digital marketing plan - situation analysis
Describe the environment in which your business operates and carry out a SWOT analysis to highlight your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.
Digital marketing plan - executive summary
How to write your executive summary - the summary of key issues you will need to include in your digital marketing plan including, objectives and tactics.
Developing your digital marketing plan
Key steps to take when developing your digital marketing plan including identifying your target audience, understanding your competitors and setting objectives.
Legal considerations in digital marketing
Make sure your digital marketing activities comply with regulations such as the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations.
Digital marketing plan - objectives
How to outline what you want to achieve from your digital marketing, and how you intend to do this using SMART goals.