
Course description
Learn how to start your own business with this Level 3 Certificate. Explore the basic knowledge and practical skills required from market potential and analysis, finalising your idea and planning it out, all requirements for setting up the business, and much more!
RQF Number: 603/0048/6
Element 1: Analyse Entrepreneurial and Market Potential
- Producing a plan
- Supporting a successful business venture
- Information sources
- External market analysis
- External environment and its impact on success
Element 2: Build the Business Idea
- Customer perspective
- Competitor perspective
- Analysing the business idea
- Producing measurable objectives
Element 3: Developing the Marketing Approach
- Improving the business idea
- Marketing mix
- Defining and positing the unique selling proposition (USP)
- Influencing customer perceptions
- Developing sales pitches
- Driving sales
- Investment in a start-up
Element 4: Plan the Operations
- Local legal structures
- Regulations
- Requirements and resources
- Operating at launch
- Operating on an ongoing basis
Element 5: Plan the Budget
- Producing financial forecasts and budgets
- Sourcing finances
- Managing the day-to-day business using financial information
- Managing performance and spotting failures
Element 6: Create the Business Plan and Pitch
- Securing funding
- Assisting the entrepreneur in the ongoing management of the business
- Preparing a pitch
- Reflecting on the process of developing a business plan
- Evaluating the business objectively
- Producing a business plan that clearly communicates the vision for the new business, if it is to attract investment
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