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Roadmap to success

• Manage cashflow and access finance
  • Understand the essentials of cashflow management
  • Manage suppliers
  • Prevent late payments
  • Debt factoring and invoice discounting
  • Access sources of funding and finance
• Increase the productivity of your people
  • Communicate and consult with your employees
  • Introduce non-cash incentives
  • Introduce flexible working
  • Invest in skills and training
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  • Managing people in the recession: support from Acas North West
• Marketing on a budget
  • Know and sell more to your most valuable customers
  • Generate more business through internet marketing
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• Improve your business efficiency and performance
  • Explore exporting to new markets
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  • Use innovation to grow your business
  • Reduce costs by improving your environmental performance

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How to...

• Start your business in six steps
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  • How do I manage a greener business?
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  • Reduce costs by improving your environmental performance
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• Upskill your workforce
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• Expect the unexpected
  • Affected by flooding or worried your business is at risk?
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  • Snow is falling...
• Win and keep customers
  • Attending trade fairs and exhibitions as a customer
    • Generate and handle leads
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    • Handle and follow up leads
• Explore new markets
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  • Handling redundancies
    • Alternatives to compulsory redundancy
    • Making an employee redundant
    • How to help redundant employees and motivate the remaining workforce
    • Managing people in the recession: support from Acas North West
• Manage health, safety and premises
• Maximise your IT systems
  • IT and e-commerce - how to get it right

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