Practical business advice to help businesses succeed
Our expert business advisers, Steve Bedford and Mark Fordham, tackle some of the most frequently asked questions from SMEs – offering practical advice and insights to help local businesses grow and succeed.
In this short video, we cover such questions as:
- Do all businesses need a strategic plan?
- Why bother with a business plan and cash flow forecast?
- Do people need a marketing plan if they have a general business plan?
- Are there any common mistakes people make in strategy formulation?
- Are there any common mistakes people make in marketing planning?
- Should I go out networking?
- Why and when should I increase my prices?
- What is your business worth?
- How do you see marketing evolving in the next few years?
Watch the video below
Business planning workshops
At STANTA we run a programe of workshops designed to help businesses develop the skills needed to run a successful business.
They range from Business Planning to Bookkeeping and Marketing Planning to Effective Selling and lots more besides. These workshops are repeated on a regular basis, so if you don’t see something in our programme this month, there’s a good chance we will be running it again at a later date.
Impartial business advice
If a one-to-one business advice session might help you, please get in touch with our team.
We offer free business advice and training for businesses in the St Albans and Harpenden district (postcode areas AL1 – AL5) that are under 5 years old. If you fall outside of this area, we can signpost you to other services.
At STANTA Business Centre, we also provide flexible, low risk office space in St Albans to help startups and small businesses grow. The income from our premises helps fund our free business advice and training workshop service. Check out the businesses currently based at STANTA.
