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Sales and marketing for start-ups
Guides on how to maximise sales and how to deploy marketing to attract customers to your startup business
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
Safer ways of working
Reducing the health and safety risks of specific work activities
Take steps to grow your business
Guides to help your startup business move beyond the starting up phase and grow into a successful established business
Choose your business structure
Guides on the different types of structure which can be used to start a business and the legal implications of each
Local support for start-ups
Guidance on specific forms of support in Northern Ireland for different business types of startup business and entrepreneurs
Health and safety
Guidance on health and safety basics, writing a health and safety policy, providing health and safety training, setting up a health and safety management system, managing the welfare of people and safer ways of working
Starting a business
Guides, tools, videos, resources and support to help you turn your business idea into a startup business reality in Northern Ireland
Mentoring and business networks
Guides on the role of business mentoring and networking with local entrepreneurs and business people for successful startups
Choose and set up your workplace
Guides on how to choose the right premises to suit your startup business needs and the options available to you
Considering starting a business
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
Find money to start your business
Guides to help you through the tricky issues of finding and securing finance to start up your business
Trade with other countries
Guides on exporting and importing when starting up a business and the support available for trading internationally
IT for start-ups
Guides on how to integrate the right IT systems and infrastructure to help your business through the startup phase
Managing the welfare of people
Protecting your employees from risks and looking after their health and safety needs
Understand Tax and VAT when self-employed
Guides which can help ensure you understand your responsibilities when it comes to tax and VAT for your startup business
Manufacturing
Advice and support for manufacturing businesses in Northern Ireland
Manufacturing advice and support
Guides to help improve and grow your manufacturing business
Tax allowances and grants
Guides to help you manufacturing business apply for available grants and benefit from tax allowances