Monday 28 May 2007

Starting Business Sessions

If you have made the decision to start your own business and want to ensure that you start out on the surest footing, WE run a series of Start-up Workshops for NZTE that may be of use to you.

The series of four, three-hour workshops run twice during the year and cover the business set-up and management in more detail than the Pre Start-up sessions. It is expected that you attend all four sessions.

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Starting a business Session 1
Synopsis: This workshop covers: elements of success; business start-up ‘must haves'; business structures; business planning; getting the marketing right; managing money; making decisions & action plans and; managing a business
Venue: Waitakere Enterprise
Date: 30th May (6:00pm - 9:00pm)
Cost: Free of charge
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Starting a business Session 2
Synopsis: This workshop looks at market research, pricing, developing a promotional plan and asks: ‘How's the competition?'; ‘Do you know your target market?'; ‘What's your pricing strategy?' and; ‘What's your competitive advantage?'
Venue: Waitakere Enterprise
Date: 6th June (6:00pm - 9:00pm)
Cost: Free of charge
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Starting a business Session 3
Synopsis: This workshop covers: record keeping; basic tax obligations; financial viability; cash flow management; profit & loss and; IRD resources
Venue: Waitakere Enterprise
Date: 13th June (6:00pm - 9:00pm)
Cost: Free of charge
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Starting a business Session 4
Synopsis: This workshop covers: E-commerce; choosing your team; time management; prospecting and selling, session Q&A; where to from here.
Venue: Waitakere Enterprise
Date: 20th June (6:00pm - 9:00pm)
Cost: Free of charge
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"For me a business plan is a road-map to make your idea happen. Nothing more, nothing less. I’m not sure creatives should be talking about revenue streams and supply chains when they mean income and a network of friends and contacts in various creative fields. "I met this guy and he knows someone who can help out." That’s so underplayed and yet it’s so important to successful business. Terms like ‘supply chain’ are only so much alienating jargon.”

Hugo Manassei
Director, NESTA Graduate
Pioneer Programme

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"Barbara made business seem so relevant. And that made it immediately interesting to me. I really felt that I wanted to understand it better because it’s related to what I am doing"

(Generator resident post Waitakere Enterprise/Generator Business Courses)