Dates and Venues for Business Workshops – October, November, December 2009 O Markham Vale Buxton Library Chesterfield DNCC Deciding to Start & Business Planning 9:30am 4:30pm 07/10/09 23/10/09 02/10/09 06/10/09 Sales & Marketing 9:30am 4:30pm 09/10/09 14/10/09 Financial Planning & Managing Money 9:30am 4:30pm 13/10/09 22/10/09 ICT for your Business 9.30am – 4.30pm 22/10/09 30/10/09 Chesterfield DNCC Derby DNCC November 2009 Time Deciding to Start & Business Planning 9:30am 4:30pm Sales & Marketing 9:30am 4:30pm Financial Planning & Managing Money ICT for your Business December 2009 Markham Vale Buxton Library Derby DNCC St Peter’s House Time October 2009 St Peter’s House 02/11/09 12/11/09 10/11/09 17/11/09 9:30am 4:30pm 20/11/09 23/11/09 9.30am – 4.30pm 23/11/09 30/11/09 Time 17/11/09 Markham Vale 10/11/09 Buxton Library Chesterfield DNCC Derby DNCC St Peter’s House Deciding to Start & Business Planning 9:30am 4:30pm 01/12/09 03/12/09 Sales & Marketing 9:30am 4:30pm 07/12/09 09/12/09 Financial Planning & Managing Money 9:30am 4:30pm 14/12/09 16/12/09 ICT for your Business 9.30am – 4.30pm 03/12/09 08/12/09 18/12/09 21/12/09 Workshop Venues Markham Vale: Buxton: Chesterfield: Derby: Environment Centre, Markham Lane, Markham Vale, Chesterfield S44 5HY Buxton Library, Kents Bank Road, Buxton SK17 9HW Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Chamber, Canal Wharf, Chesterfield S41 7NA Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Chamber, Commerce House, 2 Victoria Way, Pride Park, Derby DE24 8AN St Peter’s House: Derby City Partnership, 7th Floor Meeting Rooms, Gower Street, Derby DE1 1SB To book a place – telephone 01246 212902 or email: janet.howett@dncc.co.uk Business Link start up services are provided by Derbyshire Enterprise Agency, one of a group of partners working together to help more people start a successful business in the East Midlands. A FREE Business Link workshop to provide you with the key facts when considering starting a business as well as looking at what is needed when developing your business plan. Deciding to Start & Business Planning Workshop This workshop is an introduction to all aspects of running your own business. The session will help you decide whether self employment is right for you, look at your personal motivation and cover pitfalls and benefits of being your ‘own boss’. You can also find out more about legal and regulatory issues such as business status, insurance, employment legislation and taxation. The workshop will give overviews on: Business Planning, Marketing, Operations, Cash Flow and Profit Projections. A common reason given for not forward planning is ‘How can I know what the business will look like in years to come?’ you can’t, but you can anticipate what could happen and how you will manage the various extremes. This is about business planning to help your set goals and to also look at the information required to satisfy the criteria of lenders such as banks. This workshop will take you through the key items you should be detailing in your Business Plan and you will go away with a pro-forma to help develop your own. Sales and Marketing Workshop Marketing is important to attract and retain your customers spending power. Business Link can help you find out more about research, competitive advantage, advertising and promotion and how to create a detailed marketing plan. By taking part in our ‘Sales and Marketing’ workshop you will be able to test your marketing skills with other delegates, learn how to overcome the fear of selling, examine and practice closing techniques and convert your marketing effort into sales. Financial Planning and Managing Money Workshop Financial planning and control helps to increase the chances of business success. Business Link’s Start Up service can help to illustrate the importance of sound financial planning when setting up a business. Our workshop aims to equip you with an appreciation of the basics involved in the financial planning process. Topics covered include costing, pricing, mark ups, versus margins and breakeven. The workshop also considers the planning issues of profit forecasting, cash forecasting, capital expenditure and depreciation. Business Link can assist you in examining different ways of keeping financial records. Through workshops and discussions you can explore the importance and value of keeping basic financial records, what to keep and how to go about it – vital information for new businesses. In our ‘Managing Money’ workshop the legal obligations are explored and the issues of taxation (including VAT) are covered in detail. ICT for Your Business This workshop covers the key considerations for your business around IT & e-commerce. Subjects include: ICT revolution; Doing business online, E-commerce, Data protection and managing risk, Communications, software and data storage, Business applications and communications, IT security, staffing and legal issues, to enable you to make the right decisions for your business to get the most out of ICT. www.businesslink.gov.uk/eastmidlands Main enquiry Number 0845 058 6644