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Navigating growth: Five top tips from a scaling entrepreneur Five top tips from a scaling entrepreneur
4th July 2024
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Navigating growth: Five top tips from a scaling entrepreneur
Boost business adviser, Jonny Slater, who co-founded his own high-growth startup business, dissects some common pitfalls faced by scaling businesses and offers practical solutions to overcome them.
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2nd July 2024
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The importance of a well-written business plan
Do you have a business plan? Do you keep it up to date? A business plan is a strategy for a business that highlights its goals and how it will achieve them. A well-written business plan is the foundation for the success of a business.
How to collect useful customer feedback How to collect useful customer feedback
26th June 2024
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How to collect useful customer feedback
Be honest, how often do you ask your customers for feedback? Anne Williamson, founder of Customer Love offers her tips and hints to help understand what your customers really think about you!
Enterprise Vision Awards announce record-breaking number of finalists for 2024, including 38 Lancashire businesses 2023 Enterpise Vision Awards Winners 1500px
25th June 2024
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Enterprise Vision Awards announce record-breaking number of finalists for 2024, including 38 Lancashire businesses
A remarkable 38 Lancashire businesses are setting the standard for business excellence in the Enterprise Vision Awards (EVAs), UK's largest business awards dedicated solely to women.
Unleashing innovation: a blueprint for sustainable growth in small businesses 06 ScaleToThrive
21st June 2024
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Unleashing innovation: a blueprint for sustainable growth in small businesses
Jonny Slater, Boost business adviser on the Scale to Thrive programme and co-founder of a high-growth start-up CAPSLOCK, explains the importance of innovation in a growing a business.
Why SMEs should be selling solutions not products Sell a solution
19th June 2024
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Why SMEs should be selling solutions not products
Daniel Fenton, Boost business adviser on Boost’s Flying Start programme outlines his three-part strategy to explain the three processes behind sales.
The strategic power of partnerships in business expansion AdobeStock_509990675 strategic partnership HC 2
4th June 2024
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The strategic power of partnerships in business expansion
Here, Boost business adviser Hayley Caine, discusses the importance of partnerships in business expansion.
My Scale Up Journey: David Hammond, Chiptech David Hammond cropped
31st May 2024
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My Scale Up Journey: David Hammond, Chiptech
After forming Chiptech UK in 2019, the business has experienced consistent and rapid growth, year on year.
Checklist for cultivating strategic agility AdobeStock_591862856 checklist for strategic ability
28th May 2024
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Checklist for cultivating strategic agility
Here Boost business adviser, Jonny Slater, outlines how business owners can navigate uncertainty, embrace change and become a pioneer of business growth.
Boost launches new Investment Academy to help prepare Lancashire businesses for equity investment Investment Academy web image
24th May 2024
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Boost launches new Investment Academy to help prepare Lancashire businesses for equity investment
Boost’s Access to Finance service has launched a new Investment Academy designed to help businesses better understand how to secure equity investment.
Lancashire outperforms other North West regions in scaleup potential The State of Growth in Lancashire
23rd May 2024
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Lancashire outperforms other North West regions in scaleup potential
Fifteen per cent of Lancashire businesses are forecast to grow by over 20 per cent in the next year, significantly higher than the UK average of 13.1 per cent, according to a new report from national business growth specialist The Growth Company.
How to improve the numeracy skills of your workforce Numeracy Day
22nd May 2024
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How to improve the numeracy skills of your workforce
Did you know, according to statistics from the National Numeracy, 49 per cent of the working-age population of England have the numeracy level expected of primary-school children? The total cost to the UK economy has been estimated at £20 billion a year.

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