What is business planning? How to make your ideas for a business into a successful small business. Articles about the business planning process. Learn how to write an effective business plan to secure funding and ideas for marketing and growth of your start up business to get you off the ground.
How SABMiller invests millions each year to support entrepreneurs across the globe.
Eric Brandenburg, UK manager of market research company Marketest, looks at how unbiased research will uncover the merits of a new product to a market.
Entrepreneur Nicola Bird gives some tips on moving into the coaching arena.
Marketing director of Wix.com Omer Shai talks about the benefits of using free tools to develop your web presence.
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Kevin Byrne, managing director of Checkatrade, says that business owners should expand their horizons beyond what he calls a 'ten-inch frying pan mentality'.
Michael Lister, managing partner at MLP Solicitors, is often approached for advice by the owners of new and growing businesses seeking funding from their bank. Here are his top tips for drawing up the perfect business plan.
Norman Shaw, founder of mobile data security company ExactTrak, talks funding, intellectual property and entrepreneurial ambition.
Barclays looks at the things you should consider before growing your company.
SmallBusiness.co.uk talks to Sohail Rashid, founder of venture capital-backed property finding app Property Place, which launched in January.
Mary Cummings talks about the transition from working for a corporate to starting her own marketing consultancy.
Bobby Lane, partner at Shelley Stock Hutter, explains why an accurate business forecast is so important for early-stage companies.
Companies led by a duo rather than a single head often attribute their success to the power of their business partnership.
It’s not always a simple case of raw brainpower married to business instincts, but the partnership of equals has continued to be a powerful force behind some of the most successful companies of our age
Martin Hayward explains how businesses should prepare for the infrastructure challenges posed by the Olympics.
Dr Simon Mosey, head of Institute for Enterprise and Innovation at Nottingham University Business School, offers some business planning wisdom for SmallBusiness.co.uk readers.
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