We all know someone who has the gift of the gab or is just excellent at getting a group of pals interested in their latest project. This can be quite an asset when wanting to start up a business. To do that in the hard trading situation we currently see ourselves in, you need supreme confidence in your product or services that you want to market. It can be tempting to start up the business and not spend any funds on support or advice networks. This can often turn out to be false economy. It has been proven time and again that looking down the five years from here formula would mean saying, hand on heart, that you expect to be still trading very successful in five years time and if you have done your business plan and stuck to it, you will be thinking constantly about how to achieve this and keeping on track. Well one of the ways is to take this forward would be to join a trade federation or business association. these are run by experts in their field and will be worth every penny of their subscription fees. It is no exaggeration to say that many thousands of pounds is saved every year by small employers when they suddenly find themselves having look into employment law and all that’s involved in employing folk.
