Practical advice on forecasting, cash flow, and planning, plus templates, walkthroughs, and strategies you can apply straight away.
A business plan is required to sell your idea to investors or banks, persuading them to fund you. They won’t just part with their cash, you need to make them believe in your idea as much as you do! Even if you aren’t going down this funding route, creating a business plan gives you focus, direction and a clear path to achieving your goals.
In this article, we’ll be looking at how to design a website. The design of a website should reflect your branding and should also appeal to your target market. Throughout this article we’ll look at how to incorporate all these things into the overall look and feel of your website.
In this article, we’ll be exploring how to set up your own website. We’ll look at everything from how to purchase a domain name to how to host your own website.
If you’ve never worked in HR or recruitment, you might not know the ins and outs of hiring new talent. The process may seem simple, ask questions and see if you like the candidate. However, there are more steps and factors to be aware of when hiring for your startup or established business. Lucky for you, we’ll cover all the important areas of employing someone today.
In this article we explore the ways you can protect your business. You’ve got a minimum viable product and know how you’re going to market it. You now need to make sure you protect your business from the law and to ensure people don’t steal your idea! In this article, we’ll be looking at how to patent and trademark your intellectual property designs, what terms and conditions and privacy policies are and why you need them, and how to protect your company from breaching GDPR.
It is important to research and establish your business infrastructure so that the daily activities of your business run smoothly. A well organised and well structured company will be able to deliver its products and services in a timely fashion, and ensure that existing and new customers are happy and the company is profitable.
You’ve started marketing your product or service. How can you tell if it’s doing well or not? Well in this post we’ll walk you through how to measure the success of your campaigns with practical examples.
In this post, we’ll talk through what a marketing channel is and the options you have. From traditional to more experiential channels, we help you choose a channel that suits your business best.
This week, we’re going to explain the concept of the marketing funnel. We’ll walk through the stages and show you how understanding the three stages is the one of the keys to more conversions and sales.
One of the pitfalls fledgling entrepreneurs can fall into is getting stuck in the costly product development process. Lot’s of time and money gets invested into a business before customer feedback gets involved. When customer feedback eventually does get involved it can derail a lot of the work that has been put in. Creating early prototypes for the purpose of gathering feedback is a good way to avoid this issue.
Your Unique Selling Point is your competitive edge – the reason that people will buy from you rather than your competitors. This guide will teach you how to identify product features that your target market wants and what your competitive advantage is.
So, you’ve got a big idea for a business and you’ve started researching the market you want to approach. What’s next? How do we take this seed of an idea and nurture it into a credible business? That’s what we’ll tackle in this article where we begin refining your idea into something that can make money. There’s more to starting a business than just coming up with a product or service you can sell.
Struggling to come up with ideas for businesses? Don’t worry, we’ll take you through an easy process for coming up with business ideas that match your skillset. We’ll take you through how to identify a gap in the market, if it’s a good business idea and whether it’ll be profitable.
For many entrepreneurs, borrowing is a necessary evil as few new businesses have the capital to be entirely self-funded. In this article, I’ll explain the role credit scores play in startup funding and some of the credit score-based borrowing options available.
Financial modelling is seen as a niche activity. But, it’s actually the best and most natural way to make the most of forecasting. This week, we take a look through the applications of financial modelling, explain what it’s all about, and show how Brixx can make this seemingly complex activity simple and approachable for small businesses.
Some tasks just suck up time – in which case you need to delegate. In this guest article from Kayleigh Alexandra at Micro Startups, we delve into 7 tasks to delegate early on.
This week – plan sharing is finally here! We have just released a host of new features and two new reports – find out more in this post… 😉
There are a lot of elements to starting and running a personal training business that you might not have thought of yet. This step by step guide takes you through setting up the fitness business of your dreams!
Today I’m going to take a closer look at one of the features of the Brixx Dashboard. We’ve taken to calling this feature ‘Spotlight’. Spotlight lets you filter out what appears on your dashboard, creating custom views of the dashboard which report specifically on different parts your Brixx financial model.
Cash flow problems can cause otherwise successful businesses to go bust. This is a truth that bears repeating, which is why this about the third article in which I have repeated it! Small businesses are especially at risk as they may not have reliable access to sources of finance, having to turn to loans to get them out of trouble, which will, in turn, negatively affect their future cash flow.
