Business Ideas & Planning

This section covers business start up ideas and business planning. The expert advice articles will help you learn how to write an effective business plan to help secure funding and there are guides to step you through the launch of a successful business.

Electricians to plumbers – the best cities for building a career in a trade

With 25 new trade start-ups opening their doors every day, new research shows the best cities in the country to start a trade business.

How to create a business in 90 minutes

Andy Shield plans to create a new business from scratch in 90 minutes. Will he do it? Is it realistic for others? Here, we find out.

Business Ideas & Planning

How to start a removals business from scratch

Here, we look at the key factors to consider when setting up and growing your own small removals business in 2017.

Business Ideas & Planning

Finding the right niche for your small business

The secret to finding the right niche is solving a simple problem better than anyone else does, as we outline here.

Business Ideas & Planning

Here’s why more and more of us are becoming ‘solopreneurs’

It has never been easier to start out in business on your own, says Louise Cairns.

Business Ideas & Planning

Launching a start-up: Key lessons learnt along the way

Rebecca Kelly discusses the learning experiences she has taken away from the early days of running her venue booking platform business.

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Tips for budding entrepreneurs

Starting and growing your own business is a challenging journey, with so many issues to consider. Here, Mark Woolley gives his thoughts on how entrepreneurs can stay on top of their game.

Business Ideas & Planning

How to write a brilliant business case

Here, Richard Walker discusses the key things to consider when putting your business plan together.

Business Ideas & Planning

Tips for budding entrepreneurs

Starting and growing your own business is a challenging journey, with so many issues to consider. Here, Mark Woolley gives his thoughts on how entrepreneurs can stay on top of their game.

Business Ideas & Planning

How to write a brilliant business case

Here, Richard Walker discusses the key things to consider when putting your business plan together.

Business Ideas & Planning

Intellectual property: why timing can be everything

Here, Peter Finnie, managing partner of Gill Jennings & Every, tells us why the timing of a patent application can mean everything to your intellectual property.

Business Ideas & Planning