Startup Clinic – We want your feedback

[Henry Osadzinski]

Having run for almost 3 months now, we've seen some great content coming out of the Startup Clinic and, hopefully, a lot of you have found the advice you needed to help get your business off the ground. We want to carry on producing content based on your submissions and we're eager to hear from you about what it is that you find most useful and interesting. If there's a thread or post that's been particularly good for you, feel free to share it and if there's anything that you feel should be included, let us know.

This is also your chance to share your success stories - how have your plans progressed in the past 3 months? Did the Startup Clinic material help you get to where you wanted to be?

If you add a reply telling us how or why you voted or what else you would like from the Startup Clinic before 11:59pm on Sunday (13/01), you'll be entered into a prize draw to win a free copy of Windows 8 as well as a year's UKBF Full Membership

 

[Yorkshire&Online]

Planning, planning, planning!

I believe that the most important thread I have seen on here so far refers to carrying out a business plan. So often I see new businesses fail simply because they have failed to plan adequately. Although you may not require funding and therefore don't necessarily need to prepare a formal business plan, you still need to consider the profitability of your venture and the cash flow position at the various stages of growth. Businesess often forget about cash flow, but if you fail to make sure you have enough cash in the pot as you grow, you are doomed to failure.

As Scalloway says in the following thread,

People who fail to plan, plan to fail. A business plan does not need to be elaborate but you need to think things through.

http://www.ukbusinessforums.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=280597

 

[SME Marketing Strategies]

Business planning is the most important part of business after researching a business idea. I don't just mean a "business plan" I mean a definite plan built on business fundamentals.

I just wanted to share a little tip here. When putting your plan together make sure every word you write in it is based on researched facts and not guesses. Projections are more akin to lies.

I have written many blog posts about planning for business success and had some great feedback.​

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Have a look around

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[Young Recruit]

Surveys with the results shared on the forum would be great.

JA

 

[Paul_Rosser]

This is also your chance to share your success stories - how have your plans progressed in the past 3 months? Did the Startup Clinic material help you get to where you wanted to be?

I started my business 7 months ago, didn't really have much of a plan just thought I would see how I got on and have just gone past 100k turnover (with another £50k waiting to be invoiced), so things are going well so far.

Didn't use the startup clinic but found UKBF to be an excellent resource for finding out more about the finer points of running a business and has certainly stopped me making some costly mistakes.