Included in your Business Start-up Project Manual
The project manual is the most important element of our Business in a Box toolkit. It contains all the information, help & advice that you will need to take your business from the dream it is today to a successful reality. Over the next few months it will walk you through everything you need to do with easy to follow instructions, document templates, useful advice and helpful tips along the way. There's also handy spaces for you to record your research, keep your documents and printouts and make notes.
And this is what is included in each manual:
- Introduction to the 'Business in a Box' toolkit
- Introduction to business ownership
- Steps to starting your business
- How to choose a name
- Creating a business plan
- Business plan template*
- Goal setting & SMART goals
- Goal setting template *
- How to complete market research
- Focus groups
- Focus groups template*
- Putting together a profit and loss forecast
- Profit and loss forecast template*
- Obtaining finance for your business
- What you need for your website
- Website planning template*
- Marketing strategies & how to create and manage one
- Marketing strategy template*
- Developing your brand
- Social media - setting it up and how to use it for your business
- How to 'network' and attending networking events
- Top sales tips
- Handling objections
- How to launch
- Accounts & invoicing
- Invoice template*
- Accounts spreadsheet*
- Self assessment
- Credit control
- How to use Google Ad-words
- Maintaining a work life balance
- Good planning practices
- Writing a Why Statement
- Creating a vision board
- Toolkit vouchers
*also provided as a Word document