Start to Build
This guide has been put together to help build your small business by:
Introducing and explaining the 4 P’s (Product, Price, Promotion and Place) and why they are the key to building your business
Introducing concepts such as the product lifecycle, roadmap and how to effectively sell to your customer
Showing you how to conduct research so you can understand, whether your idea will work, who your competitors are, how best to position your business and what motivates your potential customers
Simplifying and stepping out key business concepts and providing practical examples
Fix Up and Grow
This guide has been put together to help you fix up and grow your existing small business by looking at why:
Conducting business research is key to understanding what has changed for your customers
Revising the 4 P’s (Product, Price, Promotion and Place) is critical to getting you back on track
Looking at where on product lifecycle your offer sits and how you may need to alter your product to reflect those changes
What other small businesses have learnt and how they’ve adapted successfully
This section has been put together to help you turn a concept and/ or idea into a business by:
Helping you to take a new concept or existing business and develop it into a new or enhanced product or service.
Showing you how to do research so you can understand who your competitors are and how to market/develop/ price your offer.
Explaining why the 4 Ps (Product, Price, Promotion and Place) are the key to building, fixing and expanding your business.
Simplifying key business concepts so you can make informed decisions about your current or potential business.