by Online Business Training Courses | Thursday, September 18, 2014 | 04 Protect & Use Intangible Assets, Business Secrets, Business Tools, News, small business management
In our Small Business Management and Start-Up Course, we feature a module about protecting your intangible assets, which relates to your intellectual property rights, such as your right to use your business name. Few people are aware of when they need to register...
by Online Business Training Courses | Monday, September 15, 2014 | 03 Legal & Risk Management, Business Secrets, Business Tools, News, small business management, training courses
In the module of our Small Business Management and Start-Up course that covers establishing legal risk and management, we talk about choosing the right business structure for your business. Depending on your circumstances – and your business idea, of course – you may...
by Online Business Training Courses | Thursday, September 11, 2014 | 02 Market the small Business (Business Planning), 06 Plan small Business Finances, 07 Marketing Action Plan, 14 Productivity, Business Secrets, Business Tools, News, small business management, small business marketing
In a previous post we talked about how important it is to plan and keep taking risks in business. A big part of planning is goal setting; in fact, the two are so intimately linked, it’s impossible to really do one without the other. In our Small Business Management...
by Online Business Training Courses | Monday, September 8, 2014 | 02 Market the small Business (Business Planning), 06 Plan small Business Finances, 14 Productivity, News, small business management, small business marketing
We often talk about how important it is for businesses to make plans – marketing plans, financial plans, business plans; they’re all subjects we cover in our Small Business Management and Start-Up Course. The reason we suggest all this planning is that it helps you to...
by Online Business Training Courses | Friday, August 29, 2014 | 06 Plan small Business Finances, Business Secrets, News, small business management, training courses
This is the last post in a series of posts about financial planning for small business, which coincide with a module on planning small business finances from our Small Business Management Course. Here, we’re going to look at the most important part of the financial...
by Online Business Training Courses | Wednesday, August 27, 2014 | 06 Plan small Business Finances, Business Secrets, News, small business management, training courses
We’re been publishing a series of posts about financial planning for small businesses, which is also a module in our Small Business Management course. We recently looked at the very important aspect of any healthy business: cash flow, which brings us to another way of...
by Online Business Training Courses | Monday, August 18, 2014 | 06 Plan small Business Finances, Business Secrets, News, small business management, training courses
In our series of posts about financial planning, we’ve been talking about each of the crucial ingredients you need to include in your business’s financial plan. We’ve discussed using a financial spreadsheet for sales forecasting; now let’s take a look...
by Online Business Training Courses | Thursday, August 14, 2014 | 06 Plan small Business Finances, Business Secrets, News, small business management, training courses
We’re publishing a series of posts about financial planning for small business and in our most recent post about ongoing capital purchases and running costs we mentioned creating a financial spreadsheet to track all of your expenses, which we’re going to talk about in...
by Online Business Training Courses | Tuesday, August 5, 2014 | 06 Plan small Business Finances, Business Secrets, News, small business management, training courses
We’ve published a series of posts on financial planning and now let’s take a look at the ongoing capital costs and ongoing running costs for a small business. We mentioned in a previous post that it’s vital for every small business to create a financial...
by Online Business Training Courses | Thursday, July 31, 2014 | 03 Legal & Risk Management, 04 Protect & Use Intangible Assets, 14 Productivity, News, small business management, training courses
The legal aspect of any business, big or small, can be fairly daunting, but we cover this in our Small Business Management course. One part of the legal system of operating a business every business owner should be familiar with is contract law, or legal agreements....
by Online Business Training Courses | Wednesday, July 2, 2014 | 06 Plan small Business Finances, Business Secrets, News, small business management, training courses
For many people who decide to go into business, they often don’t give much thought to their finances beyond just wanting to turn a profit. What they fail to realise is that the key to turning a profit is creating a financial plan. A financial plan acts as a sort of...
by Online Business Training Courses | Thursday, June 12, 2014 | 02 Market the small Business (Business Planning), 10 Report on Financial Activities, 11 Selling your products or services, small business management
Our Small Business Management Course is designed to give you everything you need to create a well thought out and researched business plan that you can use as a blueprint to achieve your goals. One of the topics is ‘Business Planning’ — you could just as...
