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Guides to starting a business

The guides listed on this page will provide you with detailed information for deciding whether to go into business, and how to go about doing it — from creating a business plan to registering a trading name.

  • Planning for success

    Developing a business plan

    You can get the information you need to put together a business plan in Planning for Success, a do-it-yourself kit.
     
    Planning for Success has been compiled by an experienced team of small business advisors, all of whom have had hands-on experience of managing small businesses. The many handy hints and survival tips reflect the collective business expertise of the writers.
     
    Now into its sixth edition, this guide is designed to be readable and practical. It encourages you to build your own business plan as you read through, helped by a set of do-it-yourself templates that are linked to the text.
     
    As well as covering topics such as marketing, finance, e-commerce and exporting, the 2008 edition includes also new sections on business structures, tax and compliance, and industry sector.
     
    Hard copies of this publication or an interactive CD-ROM version are also available through your local Enterprise Training Programme provider or biz centre, or you can download the PDF.

  • Starting a business cover

    Making sure your idea will work

    Before you start a new business, it is important to take into consideration whether there is a market for your product or service, what the competition is, how the business will be financed and what the best way of lowering risk is, among other things.
     
    The Starting a Business guide will help you build businesses based on good ideas and clear goals.
     
    Checklists, tips and case studies help readers working through the guide to determine whether their idea will work before they go into business.

  • Business steps guide

    Setting up a business

    Once you’ve decided to go ahead with your business, there are a number of practical steps you will have to take, including choosing a suitable trading name, setting up a bank account and deciding whether or not to employ an accountant.
     
    The Business Steps guide will take you through what is required.
     
    Different businesses have different needs. These suggestions on basic details are of a general nature so they may not all apply to your business or how you choose to run it. But they are the building blocks to running your own small business.
     
    This booklet does not attempt to cover in detail important topics such as business plans, market research, costing and pricing, marketing, financial planning, tax obligations, etc.

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