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Finance
Guidance on raising finance, finance options, managing finance, financial planning and accounts, managing cashflow, improving business performance and managing a business when economic conditions are tough
Sales and marketing
Information guides on all aspects of business sales of products and services to marketing, both online and via traditional methods
Selling overseas
Preparing to export. Exporting - an overview. Entering overseas markets. Intellectual property protection overseas. Ethical trading. Manage the risks of exporting. CE marking.
Selling online
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.
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
Insurance
Get the right insurance for your business. Insure your business and assets - general insurances. Insure your business - people, life and health. Liability insurance. Insurance for international trade. ...
Debt recovery
Ensuring customers pay you on time. Recover your debts. Calculate the interest due on an unpaid debt. Formal requests for payment: statutory demands. Get help and advice about your debt problems. Recover debt through court. ...
Managing suppliers and payments
Manage your suppliers. Invoicing and payment terms. Getting paid when selling overseas. Credit checking your customers and setting credit limits. Factoring and invoice discounting: the basics. Ensuring customers pay you on time. ...
Improve your cashflow and business performance
Assess your business' performance. Assess and improve your business cashflow. Ensuring customers pay you on time. Recover your debts. Avoid insolvency. How to turn your business around.
Manage your cashflow
Cashflow management: the basics. Decide whether to lease or buy assets. Identify potential cashflow problems. Invoicing and payment terms. Factoring and invoice discounting: the basics. Credit checking your customers and setting credit limits. ...
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
Manage business finances
Guides on why managing finance is an important part of starting and running your business
Family business
Understand the benefits and issues that affect family-run businesses, employing family members or financing from friends and family
Start-up business ideas
Guides and tools to help you find and develop ideas for ways to start up your own business in Northern Ireland
Hire professional services
Guides on how and why to hire professional service providers to help your business in the startup phase