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Start Your Own Business

Venue:
Longford Enterprise Centre, Ballinalee Road, Longford
 
Date:
05/09/2016
 
Note:
Course takes place over 8 Monday evenings
 
Time:
7pm - 9.30pm
 
Category:
Start Your Own Business
 

Comprehensive step by step course outlining all you need to know starting in business

This event is no longer available
 

Reality Check, Marketing, Research and the Competition

-  Is this for me? Why? What? When? Where? How?

-  How to do market research

-  How to check out the competition

-  How to communicate my product or service

-  How to calculate my price

-  How to promote my business

-  How to use promotional tools

-  How to use social media – Facebook & Twitter

-  Sales, Customer Care & Closing the Deal

-  The Elevator Pitch

 

Evenings 3 & 4 Promotion, Recruitment & HR

Preparing a fully costed and workable promotional

plan

How to complete a job analysis in order to:

-  Develop job descriptions

-  Recruit

-  Train

-  Carry out appraisals

-  Develop Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s)

-  Standardise & develop customer service

-  Manage Health and Safety issues

 

Evenings 5 & 6 Finance

-  Understanding the financial cycle

-  Costs, the different types and effects

-  Pricing

-  Margins and discounting

-  The top 5 mistakes made by small businesses

-  Legal Structures – Tax, Insurance & the Law

-  Borrowing money, making a case

 

Understanding…

-  Book keeping

-  Balance sheets

-  Profit & loss

-  Cash flow and cash flow projections

-  Credit management and getting paid

-  Budgeting

** Meet an Accountant to get the low down on small

business issues – Q & A

**Complete working Excel templates are provided for

the participants to manage their book keeping

 

Evenings 7 & 8 Real life and personal development

Meet a Commercial Manager from the Bank

-  Do’s and Don’ts

-  Advice and suggestions

-  Q & A

Meeting a successful entrepreneur

-  Q & A on their real life experience

-  What makes them tick?

-  Advice and suggestions

The duties and tasks of an entrepreneur

-  DACUM chart

Writing your business plan

Writing your business plan to include…

-  Executive summary

-  Background of the business

-  Objectives

-  Founders and ownership

-  Legal and organisational structure

-  Key personnel and advisors including employee

levels

-  Mission statement

-  Details of the product or service

-  Target market

-  Price, promotion and distribution

-  Operations

-  Finance including…

_  Capital requirements

_  Expected profit margins

_  Profit potential

_  Fixed and variable costs

_  Breakeven analysis

_  Cash flow and P & L

_  Balance sheet

-  Relevant appendices