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Category: Confidence and Skills Building

Designing Our Own Opportunity

Luke and Kieran are University of Gloucestershire graduates turned successful business owners, and they've learnt a great deal along the way. Read on to find out how they made it happen... Read more
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Category: Marketing & Sales

Making Your First Sale

For most startups, this is a crucial time for product development - to fine-tune exactly what makes your product better than the competition's Read more
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Category: General hints and tips

Prioritising For Your Start-up

This decision matrix introduces reversibility/irreversibility, helping you to sort out what activities and priorities are most necessary for your small business NOW. Read more
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Category: Confidence and Skills Building

How To Negotiate For Your Business

Everyone can walk away a winner if you try this negotiation technique when coming to an agreement with your start-up's clients or collaborators Read more
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Category: General hints and tips

Want To Be A Better Speaker?

Obviously, what you say is important, but so are the nonverbal signals you send. Here are the top five positive nonverbal cues you can use when pitching your business to others... Read more
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Category: Confidence and Skills Building

Increase Your Business Confidence

There’s a tool all of us have that can calm us down, stop us being nervous and greatly improve our ability to look and sound confident when we are pitching to others. Read more... Read more
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Category: Marketing & Sales

Affordable Lead Generation Methods for SMEs

The reality is that most companies, especially small businesses, work to very tight budgets. But the good news is that there are plenty of affordable lead generation techniques that can help you make the most of your budget… Read more
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Category: General

7 Unbreakable Laws of Success

Steve Jobs developed some really great approaches to succeeding in business whatever stage your enterprise is at or whatever size it is. Read more
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Category: Finance

Five Ways to Finance Small Business Growth

As a growing start-up business, there will come a time when you need external funding to realise your expansion aspirations. Here are 5 routes to consider... Read more
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Category: Confidence and Skills Building

Take A Deep Breath For Composure

Setting yourself up in business is rewarding but can also be very stressful. If you recognise this, there’s a very simple way of building some time and space in your working day. And it uses a tool all of us have: our breath. Read more

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