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Identify areas for improvement in your business
Get ready to tender for contracts by improving your business, identify areas for improvement and take action
Implement changes to improve your business
Making the right changes to your business to improve prospects when competing for contracts and preparing to tender
Best practice in employment and improving skills
Improve your chances of winning contract work by developing your staff and using best practice in employment when preparing to tender
Improve health and safety in your business
Set high standards in health and safety to compete successfully for contract work when preparing your business to tender
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
Create your sales plan
How a sales plan will help you to sell your product or service
Report a business cartel
How to notify the Competition and Markets Authority of cartel activity such as price fixing, bid-rigging, output restrictions or sharing markets
Leniency for cartel information
How you can avoid punishment for cartel involvement by collaborating with the Competition and Markets Authority
Private litigation in competition law cases
How to bring private actions against businesses for losses incurred by breaches of competition law
What is a cartel?
An overview of how a cartel is defined by law and the penalties you and your business could face if it trades in one
Competition law
Understand how the Competition Act 1998 and the Enterprise Act 2002 affect your business
Price-fixing and other anti-competitive agreements
The law relating to price fixing and other agreements between businesses to restrict competition
Optimising content for mobile devices
How to make sure your mobile website is accessible and easy to use
Negotiate and close the sale
How to manage a negotiation, and ways of getting the client to commit to your product or service
Who is involved in an e-commerce project?
An overview of the range of interested parties involved in an e-commerce project including marketing and IT and external suppliers
Prepare your business to tender for contracts
Assess areas for improvement in your business to pass pre-qualification and tender successfully for contracts
Online selling
How your business can successfully use the internet to sell its products or service including creating an online shop and marketing online
Packaging and labelling for export
What packaging and labelling considerations businesses should consider when exporting goods including local rules and language.
Product packaging design
How the design of your packaging can help you sell your goods and build your brand.