Market research is an essential part of any business plan, whether a fledgling business or a multinational organisation. Knowing that there is a sustainable market for your product and understanding what your audience expects from you is vital to a successful business launch.
Posts Tagged ‘starting a business’
Primary market research vs. Secondary market research: a comparative analysis
Posted in Business Plan, Marketing, You and your idea, tagged business ideas, Business Plan, business startup, entrepreneurship, Market research, primary market research, quantitative market research, secondary market research, starting a business, what business startups need to know on 3 December, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s not easy being green… or a start up business owner
Posted in inside business support, Successful entrepreneurs, tagged creativity, starting a business, startup, support for small businesses, Tim Smit on 18 November, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s not easy starting up a business. From initially having the courage to realise your idea, to seeking advice and then facing the endless scrutiny that surrounds your new business – there is a certain amount of thick-skin needed to even make it to the starting line. In this video, Eden Project co-founder Tim Smit [...]
How to set up a business at home – regulatory
Posted in Advice for your business, Business Plan, Premises, You and your idea, tagged benefits from working at home, limited company, regulatory, sole trader, starting a business, working from home on 18 November, 2009 | 3 Comments »
My first blog post on setting up a business at home proved popular – I thought I would follow it up with some tips on the regulatory side to working from home.
Beat the Credit Crunch – control your costs before they control you
Posted in Advice for your business, Finance, Life as an SME, tagged business start up, business startup, starting a business, what business startups need to know on 18 August, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It’s official 2009 could be one of the hardest years ever for any business. Business will be tough and attracting customers will be a challenge. Whilst you may not be able to influence how much customers spend with you, one thing you can do is to CONTROL YOUR COSTS. So lets get back to some [...]
Your new business is exciting isn’t it!? DON’T talk about it! (Pt 2)
Posted in Advice for your business, Life as an SME, Random thoughts, Sales and Marketing, tagged expert advice, practical business advice, sales, selling, SME, starting a business, success, training, what business startups need to know on 17 August, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Following his introduction about why you shouldn’t talk about your business, Steve Bent delves further as well as offering some practical advice about how to talk about your new venture.
‘NoWhere is NowHere’ – Starting up and naming your business
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged branding, domain, Marketing, starting a business, website development on 16 June, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Having a business idea and a great intention to make it succeed is half the battle. Another aspect in making your business the best it can possibly be from day one involves an element of the marketing mix. I am talking about what for many is the fun part, naming your business. Giving your business [...]
Bucking the trend
Posted in inside business support, Life as an SME, tagged downturn, starting a business, thinking about business on 10 December, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
BRAVE, the Bristol enterprise agency, report an encouraging level of interest in their introductory course ‘Thinking about business?’ The next session for this seminar is a sell-out. Yet everywhere there are the signs of a downturn: In the high street there are half price offers… retailers desperate to keep the tills ringing. An architect friend, [...]
Same again, barman
Posted in Life as an SME, Random thoughts, tagged heat-wave, self employment, starting a business on 29 July, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Why, oh why was I collapsing with heat exhaustion on the London Underground yesterday, when I could have been sitting under a weeping willow while skipping stones across a canal (and supping a pint)? I am a salaried employee, and though our firm is flexible, we are pretty much expected to report for duty everyday [...]
Going it alone
Posted in Advice for your business, Life as an SME, tagged loneliness, small business answers, starting a business on 18 January, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Someone I know recently sold her stake in a successful business, where she had also been MD. It’s a substantial enterprise and I hope she did very well out of it. Not one to hang around twiddling her thumbs, she’s now working as a marketing and business consultant with SMEs. The other day she struggled [...]
Local enterprise agencies carry on regardless
Posted in Advice for your business, inside business support, tagged business support, practical business advice, starting a business on 17 October, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The ‘old’ Small Business Service is no more. It is now called the Enterprise Directorate. I suppose a name change doesn’t mean that much, and certainly most people starting and running a small business couldn’t give a monkeys. But the way business support itself is changing will definitely affect entrepreneurs, and is important. Take the [...]
