Starting A Small Business
Most businesses fail, but often are poorly planned resourced and managed. Learn from people with practical experience, sound training and real success.
Start a Business at Home
- Not just a course!
- Unlike other small business courses!
Start by learning the fundamentals; then develop your business ideas with guidence from a business expert to refine and improve how you move forward.
Many businesses do fail; but you can easily reduce your risks - under the guidance of a professional business expert, plan and initiate the development of your own business.
This course is unique in that it not only teaches you about business; but it gives you an opportunity to formulate a business plan, and improve it through a well structured mentoring process, where you can interact with and get feedback from an experienced and well qualified member of our staff.
There are 12 lessons in this course:
- Introduction to Small Business
- Types of business and communication, types of language, office equipment.
- The Business World
- Consultancy services, law and business, the landscape industry, business letters, communication systems.
- Your alternatives - different types of ventures
- Buying and starting a business.
- Marketing
- What is involved in marketing, advertising, selling, communication.
- Planning
- Organising and planning to ensure the success of the business.
- Basic Bookkeeping
- Financial statements, balance sheet, profit and loss statement,insurance.
- Sales Methods
- Selling, sales method, telephone canvassing.
- Budgeting
- Assets and liabilities.
- Developing a 12 month business plan
- Protection, planning and production.
- Implementing a business plan
- Communication with employees, planning the development of the business.
- Reviewing progress in a new business
- Research, evaluate and decide on business plan updates.
- Improving profitability
- Increase profit and reduce expenditure.
For more information on this course, please request your free course information pack.