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Sectors covering price, customers, your sales channels, distribution methods, promotional strategy and sales plan.

Define your market, identify your target customers and main competitors and look to the future to anticipate change.

Outlining what your company does, what you can offer, the market needs you address and why your idea is viable.

Follow these executive summary dos and don'ts to create an engaging and persuasive executive summary.

How to make a clear and simple plan for how your business will move through the startup and growth phases.

Your business plan will need to be ready for an external audience to view if you're seeking finance or investment.

A guide on the essential role that creating and using a business plan plays in starting your new business.

Information on organisations that provide mentoring opportunities for local businesses in Northern Ireland.

Skills and experience you'll need to become a business mentor, including the ability to listen and empathise.

Building on your business mentoring support through coaching, networking, peer mentoring and learning alliances.

Online business mentoring lets mentors and mentees work together wherever they are located at times which suit.

How to choose the business mentoring format that works for you if you prefer face-to-face meetings to online mentorship.

Advantages of business mentoring can include building your network and helping your personal and professional development.

Experienced business mentors can be found through local business networks and dedicated support organisations.

How a business mentor can offer you guidance and support to help your business succeed, and how to become a business mentor.

Practical tips to help social enterprises plan, manage finances and measure impact.

Funding and support resources to help social enterprises secure finance at every stage of development.

Social enterprise funding requires clarity, strong relationships, proven impact, and a confident funding proposal.

Social enterprises can blend grants, loans, investment and crowdfunding to grow sustainably and stay aligned to mission and impact.

Check that your planned company name or trade mark is not already registered or similar to one already existing.

Tutorial on common ways to raise business finance, such as bank finance, equity finance and accessing government grants.

An administrator or stock controllers' duties, typical paperwork and auditing or checking stock

Stock and batch tracking, checking goods and the British Standards Institute scheme for quality management