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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 limited company
A useful list of things you need to do to when setting up a limited company and organisations you need to contact
Compliance and regulatory risk
How to identify and manage compliance and regulatory risks in your business
Operational risk
Understand the sources of operational risk and how to minimise the impact of operational problems in your business
Taking advantage of craft tourism opportunities - The Steensons
Using staff benefits to motivate and retain staff - Outsource Solutions
Getting a product to market - Babocush (video)
Kerry Nevins, the creator of Babocush baby comfort cushion, shares her thoughts on new product design and development
What is screen tourism?
Definition of screen and film tourism, including examples in Austria, New Zealand and Northern Ireland
IP rights: copyright
What is copyright, when does it apply, and how you can use it to protect your intellectual property
IP rights: trade marks
What are trade marks, and how to register trade marks to protect your brand, products or business
IP rights: designs
An overview of design as an intellectual property asset and advice on how to use unregistered and registered designs to secure your IP
Problems with growth: overtrading
Overtrading and lack of finance are common problems in a fast-growing business - here's how to overcome them
How to contact the Crown Solicitor for Northern Ireland
How to contact the Crown Solicitor for Northern Ireland
Water use authorisations
When you need an authorisation or licence for taking or storing water from a surface or groundwater source
Reduce, reuse and recycle packaging
How to save your business money by reducing the amount of packaging you use, and other efficiency ideas
Exporting WEEE
Regulations you must follow if you want to export waste electrical and electronic equipment overseas