If you are thinking about starting a business in Kilkenny or would like to grow your existing business, we would love to help you.
Start Your Own Business in Kilkenny contains resources and the information that will help give your venture the best chance of success. It also highlights organisations who offer friendly advice and the services that you are likely to need as a new startup or local business owner.
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An interactive step-by-step guide which also includes all of the most important subjects covered in an easy-to-read way with links to useful online articles and relevant contacts.
The idea of starting your own business can be incredibly exciting and who can blame you for being tempted?
However, the sad truth is that far too many new enterprises fail in the early stages. Our aim is to make sure that you don't become one of them.
This guide explains the key start-up subjects in simple English.
There is also plenty of help available in the area and much of it is free - please do make the most of it.
LBC Training & Consultancy is a training and coaching business offering assistance to small business owners and managers.
We provide tailored mentoring and coaching services along with virtual sales manager programmes. We also run Business Development workshops and Mastermind groups through South East Ireland and the Midlands.
When we talk about Business Development we dont just mean gaining new business. We focus on developing the business as a whole entity. Being a business owner can be a very lonely place. We dont always know if we are ding the right ting when we make plans for the future. In fact many of us dont have a plan at all. Our mentoring consists of a tailored programme to suit you business and personal needs. Many business owners find it really difficult to keep on track. They have no body to keep them accountable or to help develop their goals and strategic plans. That where we help. Through workshops, persona; mentoring, team management and mastermind groups we can help your business move forward in a planned and focused fashion.
The benefit to you is that, without working any harder, you can enjoy the future of your labour a lot more. More free time. Less stress. happier customer who will tell more and more people about you.
Why not contact us for a free no obligation consultation and see if we can help you achieve al that you wan to achieve.
056-7752636
We are happy to promote anyone who is prepared to offer friendly support to local start-ups.
Our local partners have been kind enough to help us and are keen to help you too.
Getting it right from the start can help to prevent problems later.
To help you with this we have created a vast selection of resources and they are all completely free!
There is plenty of help for startups in Kilkenny but where can it be found?
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You don't know what you don't know!
The prospect of starting a new business can be incredibly exciting but should be approached with care. You have probably heard scary stories about how many start-ups fail in the early stages. You can make sure that you are not one of them by learning as much as possible before you launch. Over the years, we have collected lots of articles which will show you what has worked well for other start-ups and the putfalls to avoid.
'You don't know what you don't know' is a phrase that is so applicable to starting a new business.
Kilkenny is a great place for start-ups but your chances of success are dramatically improved if you make the most of the support that is available locally. Click on logos to visit their websites.
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100's of free startup articles
We have created a collection of 100s of startup articles to help anyone with whatever stage they are on with their business journey. Hundreds of thousands of people have gone before you and we can learn from what they got right and avoid the things that have been proved not to work so well.
You can see the full list of 'articles' at: How to start a business
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Learn from and avoid the pitfalls that other start-ups have encountered.
All of our useful FREE resources for new business start-ups in one place.
This FREE start-up pack contains everything that you need to get you started.
Our FREE downloadable guides are packed with the information that you need to start and grow a your business.
