This guide will help to get you thinking about who will want to buy your product or service, why they will buy, and, perhaps most importantly, how much they are willing to pay. Click here to read it.

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Government departments and research councils aim to procure at least two and a half per cent of their research and development (R&D) work from small businesses - this amounts to about £50 million a year. SBRI is an initiative, managed by the Small Business Service (SBS), designed to help SMEs gain greater access to publicly funded Research and Development (R&D) contracts. Go to www.sbri.org.uk for more details.

Market research is essential to help you to find out if there will be enough demand to start up and grow your new business successfully in its first year. This introductory guide outlines the kinds of questions your market research should address before starting up, and describes the main ways of carrying it out. It also introduces you to some popular sources of market information that you will find useful. To purchase the factsheet, visit Scavenger.net

Finding out what your customers, or prospective customers like and dislike is the first step to refining your product or service to best please them. Click here to read this guide to customer feedback.

The Financial Times Guide to Business Start Up, last year's best-selling guide, remains the only annually updated small business publication. It's the reference tool for anyone considering starting or growing their own business. The 2007 edition provides all the financial and legislative information you need to know as an employer. To order your copy click here.