1.         The Home-Based Business
This topic should be of interest to anybody thinking of beginning an HBB. Home-based businesses have become extraordinarily popular over the last few years. Fuelled by the increasingly service oriented economy offering a widening spectrum of niche markets and enabled by computer technology and modern communication methods, their numbers are spiraling. In fact they make up a significant part of the SME contribution to the economy.

This presentation contains advice on dealing with the unique challenges of starting up and running an HBB (personal isolation, using the home as office, storehouse and factory etc.), how to comply with laws relating to zoning and business registration and how to avoid a range of problems such as fraud, burglary and other forms of business interruption plus advice on insurance needs and taking on employees.

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2.        Starting Your Own Business
Starting and running a small business can be tough. You are subject to high levels of mental stress. You have to deal with uncertainty and anxiety and, if you make mistakes you have to accept the consequences. And there is no guarantee you will even succeed. But if you are suited to running a business, you may find that it is one of the most exciting and rewarding things you do in your life.
 

This seminar stresses the need for a prior appreciation of the would-be entrepreneurs personal characteristics and motivation (do they have what it takes to make it?); of the need for preliminary planning to improve the chances of getting through the first couple of critical years; and of the value add continuing coaching by a business development expert can bring to a business.  
 

This topic includes a series of self-assessment questionnaires to help identify whether one has the necessary characteristics to be a small business owner.

Suitable for presentation to any group of people considering going into business on their own account.

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