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...
We’ve talked about financial planning in previous posts and in our last post specifically covered sales forecasting. In our Small Business Management Course, you will learn, in much greater detail, how to create a financial plan for your business, but we thought...
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...
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...
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....
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...
On this blog we talk a lot about starting a new business — for instance, we recently covered where your can find financing for your start up and the little things you can do to ensure your success (like implementing structures and procedures). In our Small Business...
If you’ve recently completed our Small Business Management course, written your business plan (and had it reviewed) and feel ready to take the plunge and secure finance for your start-up, getting a bank loan might seem like the logical option, but sometimes it’s not....
Simply communicating with your customers to manage expectations can help you beat the competition. It’s maybe the last thing you think about when you’re starting a business, but as a newbie, it’s good customer service that will give you an edge over the...