Start Up

The essential guide to starting up your own business...

2008 will be a year of change for most of us, Resolutions are made and resolutions are broken. A popular resolution is a career change and the aspiration to go it alone!

People start businesses for different reasons. Many simply want to be their own bosses and a lot of these people start businesses in sectors that they've previously worked in. Others have an idea or spot a gap in the market and try to exploit it. A small number look to join growing sectors in a bid to get rich quick.

Topics Include:

• Financing
• Forming , naming and protecting your business
• Your tax and reporting obligations
• Employing people
• Your workplace
• Environmental and sustainability in business
• Marketing and Sales
• International trade
• IT and e-commerce
• Starting and running a Social Enterprise
• Starting and running a Franchise

In association with Business Link...

Download Start Up here (pdf)