Starting your own business is challenging. If you haven’t done it before, you’ll inevitably lack know-how, while there are common pitfalls to avoid. So, what key tasks do you need to complete when setting up your own business, if you’re to get off to the best possible start? Start-up and small-business content expert, journalist Mark Williams, answers this and other key questions.
Key tasks you need to complete when starting your own business – show notes
Business ideas
- Ten steps to developing your business idea
- Start up inspiration: ten new business ideas
- Testing business ideas
Premises
- Your premises options: home office, rent or buy
- Q&A: Setting up a home-based business
- Essential guide to finding premises for your business
Start up funding and costs
- Raising start up funding and managing cash flow
- How to start a new business on a shoestring budget
- [podcast episode]
Marketing your business and creating a brand
- How to create a winning brand and business name [podcast episode]
- Essential guide to creating a brand
- Make offline marketing work for your business [podcast episode]
- 11 cheap or free advertising methods
Forming your business
- Forming and registering a business [podcast episode]
- Essential guide to forming a business
- How to start a side hustle and make money
About our expert
Mark Williams is a leading start-up and small-business content specialist with more than 20 years’ experience. He wrote the Start Up Donut website and has produced small-business content for the government and corporate heavyweights such as HSBC and KPMG, as well as The Guardian. Perhaps more importantly, as founder of Dead Good Content, Mark himself is a small-business owner.
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