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Category: General hints and tips

Before Your Begin Your Start-up Journey

Whether you are new to the business world or find yourself struggling to grow your early-stage business, these 5 key steps will help you prepare your start-up journey. Read more
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Category: Marketing & Sales

Digital Marketing for new start-ups: Traffic, SEO, Analytics

Use digital marketing to get you visible online and maximising your efforts, and ultimately, your sales. Read more
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Category: Social Enterprise

Business For The Good of Society

A growing number of people have discovered social enterprise: earning a living from a business that exists specifically to make the world a better place. Read more
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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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