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What a business plan should include
How to make a clear and simple plan for how your business will move through the startup and growth phases.
Business plan: marketing and sales
Sectors covering price, customers, your sales channels, distribution methods, promotional strategy and sales plan.
The audience for your business plan
Your business plan will need to be ready for an external audience to view if you're seeking finance or investment.
Develop a remuneration strategy for your family business
How to apply fair, consistent and open principles when devising a remuneration strategy in a family business.
Succession planning in family businesses
How to balance family relationships and business needs to draw up a fair, effective and tax-efficient exit strategy.
Create a successful family-business constitution
Using a written document to state principles and serve as a practical guide for conflict management and prevention
Financial forecasts for your business plan
What to include in your business sales, cashflow and profit and loss forecasts, including financial forecast examples.
Effective communication in family businesses
How to prevent misunderstanding and conflict arising by providing feedback mechanisms and involving advisers.
Tips for presenting your business plan
Tips for business plan presentation, such as appendices, proofreading and further advice and support.
Managing conflict in family businesses
Using family constitutions and encouraging good communication to manage conflict and channel it as a driver for change.
Download a business plan template
Free downloadable business plan template with tips and guidance to help you write a successful business plan.
Business plan: your operations
Information to include about how you will source, procure, create and deliver the goods or services you will be selling.
Identify how much money your start-up business will make
Concentrate on cashflow estimates in the first year, not expected profit, to help ensure your business stays afloat
Forecast your personal financial needs when starting a business
How to make a realistic assessment of your personal financial needs for the first year of your new business
Cut business costs to increase start-up cashflow
Some simple, common-sense steps to consider when trying to make significant start-up business cost savings
Alternative income sources for start-ups
How you can find other sources of income during the critical early days of running your start-up business
Product life cycle management
Introduction to PLM, including tools, systems, and the substantial benefits it can bring to your business.
5 things to do before you start your business
Consider your business idea, business name, market research and how you will finance your business venture
Address for service for intellectual property rights
Overview of the rules governing address for service for intellectual property rights in the UK.
Food Hygiene Rating Scheme
Understand how the Food Hygiene Rating Scheme works in Northern Ireland, what the ratings mean and how to display them.