Business Toolbox

We have a comprehensive business toolbox of resources, articles, tools and techniques for starting and developing your business below.
Resources
Our Social Enterprise Toolbox offers guidance and tools to help you set up and run your social enterprise.

Download the Social Enterprise ToolBox E-Book here
Download the Social Enterprise ToolBox Mobile App here
The guide is written for a business leader at any stage of running their social enterprise as its intention is to help you undertake a considered and structured analysis of how well you are planning and managing your business.
Striding Out specialises in using coaching tools and techniques to help a client progress their own business. The guide therefore provides guidance, inspiration and thoughtful questions to help you plan and shape your business strategy for now and in the future. Questions are presented within each Section Checklist to help the reader apply the guidance to their own particular situation.The guide covers the following topics:
- Communicating Your Business
- Customers, Products & Services
- Market Research, Marketing & Sales
- Leadership and Management
- Measuring Your Impact
- Developing Your Team
- Business Formalities
- Business Growth
- Financial Planning and Raising Investment
As you work through each of the sections you will start to prepare all of the information you need ready for your annual business strategy, business plan, funding applications, internal team manual and even client proposals.
The Social Enterprise Toolbox is written by Heather Wilkinson, a specialist consultant and coach in social enterprise.
Articles
- Awards and Competitions ( 20 Articles )
- Branding ( 6 Articles )
- Business Planning ( 41 Articles )
- Client Management ( 3 Articles )
- Creating a PR Campaign ( 14 Articles )
- Exporting ( 2 Articles )
- Funding for Business ( 26 Articles )
- Funding for Social Enterprise ( 32 Articles )
- Funding for Young People ( 15 Articles )
- How to do your Market Research ( 6 Articles )
- Intellectual Property ( 1 Article )
- Managing Account and Legal Requirements ( 9 Articles )
- Managing Media Relations ( 8 Articles )
- Managing Staff ( 8 Articles )
- Market Trends ( 3 Articles )
- Marketing Strategy ( 8 Articles )
- Models for Business Growth ( 3 Articles )
- Networking ( 5 Articles )
- Online Marketing ( 19 Articles )
- Planning and Managing Growth ( 7 Articles )
- Recruitment ( 5 Articles )
- Sales Techniques ( 28 Articles )
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Social Enterprise
( 8 Articles )
- Support for Raising Finance ( 7 Articles )





