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Start Up Digital Funding

Just started a business and want to improve your digital presence and increase business then contact the Ad:Venture team. Qualifying businesses in the Leeds City Region can now access grant funding to assist with a wide range of digital projects designed to improve business performance. The grants can be used by companies for a number of uses including: improving their

Written on 25th November 2016Victoria Majkowski
Published in Latest News, Other News

Start a business from home

Start a business from home

It’s simple to start a business from home and growing numbers of people are doing it. There are 2.9m home-based businesses in the UK and they contribute £300 billion to the economy. These are some of the top things you need to know and do when starting a home business. Love thy neighbour – make sure your business activity does

Written on 16th November 2016Victoria Majkowski
Published in Business planning

Start & Grow with Ad:Venture

Launching in 2017, the Ad:Venture project will offer growing new and young businesses, who are under 3 years old, the opportunity to access a funded business support programme of : Business incubator space. One to One consultancy. Peer to Peer learning. Guidance and help to sources finance including start up grants. If you are looking to start, expand and grow

Written on 15th November 2016Victoria Majkowski
Published in Start Up

Top Tips for Exporters

Know your customers! Make sure you know your overseas customers – their markets, their customers and their culture. Get to know who they sell their products to and how. Know their deadlines and customer trends.   Remember to check out their statutory holidays and saints days. Saturday and Sunday are not weekends everywhere. More importantly know their culture – good

Written on 24th February 2016Victoria Majkowski
Published in Tea & Top Tips

Pricing Top Tips

Top Tip – “Getting the Price Right” Many start ups have lower overheads than their bigger more established competitors. This means that they have a little more flexibility on their price. The result is that that a new start up will often reduce their selling price as the new kid on the block. But is this approach  really necessary and

Written on 24th February 2016Victoria Majkowski
Published in Tea & Top Tips

Young Entrepreneur Tips

Do not underestimate the kudos of being a young entrepreneur. In many walks of life the fact that someone is young is often undermined. People band around  phases such as “lack of experience”.  But young entrepreneurs have so much more to build on and bring to the game.   Fresh Approaches & Fresh Ideas: Too often we are held back

Written on 16th February 2016Victoria Majkowski
Published in Tea & Top Tips

Support for Salon Supplier

TMac Salon Supplies hires their first apprentice – Yolanda Taylor joins TMac in Oxenhope to provide administrative and office support to Gill and Andrew Capstick as a result of their business growth and move to Oxenhope. TMac provides hair and beauty supplies to salons in the  region. Gill said “ The business is growing and we needed an extra pair

Written on 3rd February 2016Victoria Majkowski
Published in Latest News

Don’t Cut Corners!

There are lots of things you need to think about when you are planning to launch your business. Who are your customers, where are they based, what products and services would they be interested in and what will they pay. Our start up team can help in making sure you have got everything covered and more especially you have got

Written on 18th January 2016Victoria Majkowski
Published in Business planning

Start-up Support

Is it a good time to start a business? – Well the Chamber Start & Grow team thinks it is and so does Leeds Central MP and shadow Foreign Secretary Hilary Benn, seen here talking to members of the Chamber start up team at the Leeds Symons House start-up units. That’s also the general consensus of local residents. 42% of

Written on 18th January 2016Victoria Majkowski
Published in Latest News

Cobwebs National Start-up Barometer

Can-do hobbies like Food, Hair & Beauty and Consultancy were among the most popular types of business start up across the UK during 2014. This is according to Cobwebs most recent national Start-up Barometer based on the analysis of almost 200,000 downloads of Business Opportunity Profiles (BOP’s) from COBRA (Complete Business Reference Adviser) by subscribers last year. Analysis of 192,664

Written on 14th December 2015Victoria Majkowski
Published in Start Up
Business Support