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Guidance to help you explore the different ways of growing your business, such as franchising or buying another business, increasing your sales and market share, achieving efficiencies to boost profits or using IP to grow

Guidance to help you manage change, including change of your organisational structure, recruit staff and directors, and lead and motivate your staff

Understand how tendering works, how to prepare your business to tender for contracts and present prices through estimates and quotations to your potential customers 

Accepting online payments. Create an online shop. Search engine optimisation. Pay per click advertising. Distance selling and online trading. Fulfilling online orders. Planning for e-commerce.

Key considerations for businesses that are developing new products and services

Discover best practices in managing your business assets, monitoring and minimising risks to your business, and creating effective business continuity and crisis management plans 

Key considerations to help you import, export and purse growth internationally

Guidance on different partnering options for your business, including joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, and how to work collaboratively with another business or institution

Guides on the role of business mentoring and networking with local entrepreneurs and business people for successful startups

Guides on how to choose the right premises to suit your startup business needs and the options available to you

Guidance to help you decide if you have the right business idea and importantly if you have what it takes to start and run a business

Guides to help you through the tricky issues of finding and securing finance to start up your business

Guides on exporting and importing when starting up a business and the support available for trading internationally

Guides on how to integrate the right IT systems and infrastructure to help your business through the startup phase

Guidance on how to go about selling or closing your business including company strike-off and dissolving a company

Guidance on using innovation in manufacturing and business operations, and the benefits of using artificial intelligence, Industry 4.0 technologies and open data in business

Selling or closing your business - an overview. Preparing to sell your business. Closing a business checklist. Value and market your business. Identifying, protecting and transferring your assets. Understanding contracts when buying or selling a business.

Discover how design can benefit your business, your products, services and branding

Assess your business' performance. Ensuring customers pay you on time. Insolvency: the basics. Avoid insolvency. Individual insolvency: find out your options for dealing with debt. Complain against an undischarged bankrupt or disqualified company director

Obtaining information on a business you are thinking of buying. Understanding contracts when buying or selling a business. Assess your business' performance. Consider your exit strategy when starting up. ...