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Entrepreneur - How to Start Your Own Business

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In the enthusiasm of getting of getting started in your new business started, it can be tempting to rush forward without thinking through a plan. This course will help you consider the releavant areas, and increase your chance of success.

Course Content/Syllabus

Activities, Questions, checkpoints

The questions incorporated into the learning material have various purposes:

  • To help you tune your mind to the forthcoming new information
  • To help you to summarise the new information after you have learnt it
  • To help you to apply the new information in a practical way.

Course and Unit Assessments

In the Assessments you have the opportunity to test how the principles work in practice by applying what you have learnt in a down-to-earth way. The Course Assessment consists of 20 multiple choice questions based on material from the course

Objectives of How To Start Your Own Business In the sequence of six units you are going to cover the following topics: Course structure

Unit 1: Do you have what it takes to be an entrepreneur?
Unit 2: Where are you going? - Getting started
Unit 3: Does it all add up? - Checking out finance, people and place
Unit 4: Who are you talking to? - Developing your marketing
Unit 5: How do you sell successfully? - Turning prospects into customers
Unit 6: Bringing it all together - Finalising the Business Plan

Award: Top Mark Training Sales Entrepreneurs Certificate