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Six tips for choosing the right business property
Six tips to help you find a suitable commercial property to buy or rent for your business.
Legal considerations when choosing business property
Key legal obligations and restrictions to consider when choosing commercial premises.
Choose the right location for your business premises
Identify the advantages and disadvantages when deciding on a suitable location for your commercial property.
Search for commercial property
Specifying what you want when searching for business premises and where you can search for suitable commercial property.
How to turn around a struggling business
The areas of your business that you should assess in order to uncover any problems or potential problems.
Choose and manage a business bank account
How to choose a business bank account and the benefits of getting value from your current deal.
Factoring and invoice discounting
How to improve cashflow by selling your invoices to a third party.
Business property specification
Preparing a specification that sets out what you want when starting a search for commercial premises.
How business rates valuations are calculated
Valuation for newly built properties, alterations to an existing property, specialist schemes, and appealing your valuation.
Property changes and business rates
How making alterations to your property or the type of business you use them for can affect your business rates.
Checklist: developing a product or service
Step-by-step list on how to develop new products or services, with a checklist of key things to consider before and during development
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.
Open data opportunities for business
What is open data, where to find open data in Northern Ireland, and how to make the most of its business opportunities.
Expert financial advice
Guides which can help your business to find the right financial advice for different common and specific issues.
Get help with intellectual property protection
Advice, guidance and support with intellectual property issues for Northern Ireland businesses
Avoid infringing other people's intellectual property
How to check that you are not infringing other people's intellectual property
The importance of protecting intellectual property
Understand the significance of intellectual property rights and why it is important to protect IP such as trade marks, patents, designs and copyright
Intellectual property audit
How to conduct an intellectual property audit and assess the ownership of IP rights in your business
Types of legal protection for intellectual property rights
How to choose the right type of legal protection for your patents, trade marks, design and copyright
Intellectual property rights and your employees
How to ensure you hold the rights to any IP created by staff by stating the position in employment contracts