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Build your own business network
Create and make the most of an informal business network in Northern Ireland
What networks are available to Northern Ireland businesses?
Business networking events hosted by business support organisations across Northern Ireland
Invest Northern Ireland business networks
Invest Northern Ireland provides business support programmes, business growth help and business networking events
Demonstrating management's commitment to environmental change
Ensure everyone knows that finance, time and staff resources are committed and are good, long-term investments.
Allocate environmental costs to specific processes
Setting environmental costs against products and processes to enable you to target potential cost savings
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
Top tips for saving water in your business
Tips on how to engage your business in saving water and practical tips for minimising water use
Set environmental targets to increase profits
Create an action plan and targets to achieve cost cuts identified by environmental management accounting
Environmental management accounting and the role of accountants
Environmental management accounting helps to identify and analyse the environmental costs of a business
Identify environmental costs
How to use financial data and evidence from managers to identify environmental costs for your business.
Using a sales agent
Advice on using an outside agency to sell your products and services, and the legal issues this can raise.
Business networks in Northern Ireland
Use business clubs and forums to make contacts and promote your business in Northern Ireland
Generating sales leads
The importance of leads and generating and qualifying sales prospects including mapping your territory and using databases
Set up sales a contract
How a sales contract is a vital element in business sales and how to create a contract that complies with customer protection regulations
Establishing your sales objectives
The steps you need to take to bring your business idea to market including studying the competition and defining your strategy
Create your sales plan
How a sales plan will help you to sell your product or service
Environmental review staff interviews
How to talk to key people in order to understand the environmental performance of your business
Retail selling
How to successfully sell within a shop environment including portraying the right image to customers and building rapport
Online selling
How your business can successfully use the internet to sell its products or service including creating an online shop and marketing online
Sales agents and distributors
How a third party sales agents and distributors can help you establish sales or move in to new markets