Venue:
Remote interactive workshop delivered via Zoom
Note:
6 online sessions: 28th January, 4th, 11th,18th, 25th February, 4th March (6 Sessions running on Thursdays)
Category:
Start Your Own Business
Interested in starting your own business? Take the first step by attending our online Start Your Own Business programme.
This course will help you develop and research your ideas, learn basic business start-up skills and expand your growth potential with marketing and financial planning advice. Consists of 6 online interactive sessions.This course is strictly for Kildare based businesses only.
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Start Your Own Business Programme
Interested in starting your own business? Take the first step by attending our online Start Your Own Business programme.
The objective of Start Your Own Business programmes is to assist new potential business owners in assessing the viability of business ideas and in understanding the essential elements required to start up and run their own business.
The modules are designed by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs to give participants the basic knowledge, skills and confidence to bring their entrepreneurial project to profitable reality.
Participants will be able assess the viability of business ideas and understand essential elements needed to bring an enterprise from to concept to profit. They will also learn the essential elements required to start up and run their own businesses effectively.
Course Content
1) This topic will introduce participants to the concept of entrepreneurship and what it means to be a business owner. The downs and ups and how to deal with both. |
- Entrepreneurship – What is it?
- Personal Skills Analysis
- Personal Goals (particularly financial)
- Golden Figure (creating personal wealth)
- Reasons for starting a business
- Reasons for small business success and failure
- Understanding how to develop an idea to make Money
- Steps to starting a business
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2) This topic shows delegates the two common formal vehicles to use to conduct business, particularly the new companies acts and legislation; the session also introduces the self-assessment taxation system and the responsibilities to the revenue of the self-employed. |
- Guide to legal structures
- Registering a business name
- Registering a domain name
- Introduction to Tax
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3) This topic introduces the reasons for and benefits of planning, as well as the methods of creating a realistic plan and how to use it as a tool for creating and managing success. |
- Why develop a business plan?
- Main elements of a business plan
- Setting Goals and objectives/ Strategic Planning
- Year one Cash Flow Forecast
- Matching your business plan to your book keeping (budgets vs Actuals)
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4) This topic gives a solid professional grounding in the principles of marketing leading up to developing a practical sales pitch and marketing plan |
- Introduction to Marketing
- Sales versus Marketing
- Marketing – what is it?
- What is market research and why?
- Building the blocks of market research
- What is my core message?
- What is advertising?
- Methods of Advertising
- Digital Advertising
- Sales pitch
- Creating a marketing plan
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5) This topic discusses sales, after all if there are no sales there is no business. Understanding the practical steps to take to get sales and develop profits. |
- Developing a persona
- Understanding your potential customers
- The story for your product or service
- Developing the promotional mix
- Sales buying process
- B 2 B or B 2 C, what do you need to know?
- Motivating your customer
- Assessing a new market
- Developing a customer base
- Retaining contact with you customer base
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6) The topic aims to inform of the routes to finance available in current times and to establish the methods of costing and other basic tools to ensure profitability |
- Introduction to small business finance
- Sources of funding
- Business Costs
- Pricing
- Break Even Analysis
- Accounting options & MIS systems
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7) The aim of this topic is to create an understanding in the participants of the importance of good financial management which ranges from basic bookkeeping to creation of internal controls and revenue commissioner ready accounts, as well as how why and when to register for appropriate taxes. |
- Books of prime entry
- Top tips to make bookkeeping stressless
- Profit and loss account creation
- Balance Sheet creation
- Taxes: the principle of self assessment, ROS, returns and thresholds
- Self assessment Income Tax
- VAT
- How Books relate to tax
- How to set up and use the revenue online system to your benefit
- Matching your books to your business plan
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Course Delivery
28th January, 4th, 11th,18th, 25th February, 4th March (6 Sessions running on Thursdays)
Delivered by:
Talentpool Ltd
Accessing Course
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This course will be delivered via Zoom. Details about how to log in will be emailed to you following registration.
In advance - here is a short video on how to join a meeting: https://youtu.be/hIkCmbvAHQQ
Please note:
Failure to provide a minimum of 48 hours notice of cancellation will result in an immediate fee of €50
Courses are limited to one person per company
Bookings will close 24 hours before the course to allow management of attendance
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