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Get Started with advice on starting a new business. Read articles on how to start a small business including how to raise finance, franchising options, resources for start-ups and glossary of business terms.
Get Started featured articles:
- Starting a small business in a recession
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- Recession is looming, but that needn’t put you off starting a small business. Some businesses are recession-proof, recession-resistant or actually perform better during a downturn.
- Buy a franchise: children's sports coaching
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- Whether you have a background in sport but not in starting up a business, or vice-versa, you can be a successful Premier Sport franchisee with the right guidance and attitude.
If they can, you can. Share your views about starting a business.
- Resources guide: protecting ideas and finding training
- Includes contact details for the Patent Office, the British Venture Capital Association and two training providers.
- Resources guide: general
- Starting a business or buying a business is never easy. Part one of our resources guide provides details of organisations that give advice on starting a business.
- Glossary of business terms
- Baffled by the jargon? Worry no more with our glossary of bamboozling business terms...
- Top 10 tips for start-ups
- Advice on starting a small business from the MD of freeindex.co.uk.
- The voice of experience
- Buying, selling or starting a business: Robert Ward has done them all and has kindly imparted his knowledge for our readers.
- Working from home
- It's cheaper – significantly – it means you avoid the dreaded commute, and you can spend more time with your family. But there are drawbacks to running a small business from home.
- Conducting due dilligence
- After signing an agreement in principle, but before signing a binding contract, you need to conduct a comprehensive MOT - to use a motoring analogy - of the business.
- Which business should you buy?
- Coffee shop or bike shop? Pub or art gallery? Where do your strengths lie and what would you enjoy?
- The 10 steps to buying a business
- A step-by-step breakdown, including choosing, targeting and valuing businesses.
- Five ways to make money – if only you had some
- Chris Baguley of Bridging Finance Limited vets some popular ways of making money.
- A guide to overdrafts
- Overdrafts are easy to arrange and give start-ups a bit of cash flow flexibility. Read about the other advantages and drawbacks here.
- Finance brokers: a guide
- Finding finance providers and brokering deals for you, finance brokers can save you time, hassle and money when searching for finance to start up a business.
- Calculating the potential profit of a franchise
- Advice on how to ascertain the profitabilty of a new franchise business, by Robin Every of Card Connection.
- Buy a franchise: eco-friendly cleaning products/service
- Founder Julie Bishop tells BusinessWings about her business's ethos and how it makes it unique in its field.
- Preparing your franchise business plan
- How franchise buyers should write a business plan, by BFA-affiliated accountant Andrew Small.
All Get Started articles
- Calculating the potential profit of a franchise
- Advice on how to ascertain the profitabilty of a new franchise business, by Robin Every of Card Connection.
- See more in: buy a franchise, franchising, franchises, guides, research
- Buy a franchise: eco-friendly cleaning products/service
- Founder Julie Bishop tells BusinessWings about her business's ethos and how it makes it unique in its field.
- See more in: franchises, franchisors, interviews, cleaning, environment, environmentally friendly, ethical, buy a franchise, retail, services, green, eco-friendly
- Preparing your franchise business plan
- How franchise buyers should write a business plan, by BFA-affiliated accountant Andrew Small.
- See more in: franchising, buy a franchise, business plans, marketing, guides
- A guide to raising business finance
- A guide to the different types of business finance available to small business, from corporate law solicitor Mary Erb.
- See more in: finance, capital, funding, money, mezzanine, overdrafts, loans, invoice discounting, venture capital, VCs, asset finance, banks, business angels, grants, flotation, guides
- Closing date for £5k awards approaches
- Time is running out if you want to vie for the top prize at the annual Start-Up Star business awards.
- See more in: awards, news, start a business, start-ups
- Five ways to make money – if only you had some
- Chris Baguley of Bridging Finance Limited vets some popular ways of making money.
- See more in: financing, funding, capital, buy a business, property, investment, guides
- Conference opens door to thriving Russian economy
- For businesses and investors needing guidance to the Russian market, a conference in Huddersfield will provide a platform to forge contacts and appraise investment opportunities.
- See more in: Russia, Huddersfield, investment, conferences, exhibitions, events
- Small-business financing: venture capital
- Mary Erb from leading corporate law firm Heatons explains how to raise small-business finance to turn your business ambitions into profitable reality.
- See more in: venture capital, VCs, finance, capital, funds, guides
- Starting a small business in a recession
- Recession is looming, but that needn’t put you off starting a small business. Some businesses are recession-proof, recession-resistant or actually perform better during a downturn.
- See more in: recession, food, luxury goods, funeral parlours, healthcare, debt collection, solicitors, schools, maintenance, over-50s, franchises
- Choosing the right franchise for you
- A few basic pointers as to what you should think about when picking a franchise, by Simon Rickett, co-founder of UK Websaver and Activ Web Design.
- See more in: buy a franchise, franchises, tips
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