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Start a Professional Business

Would you like to:

Use your skills

Are you ready to take the jump into being your own boss ~ just not sure what to do!

Gain Control

Make sure you start a business covering the basics and with a strong foundation that will survive!

Be your best

You do not need to be bogged down by business stuff.

In the course

You know your thing – people, tech, productivity, cybersecurity, design, workplace safety <insert your skill here>, however all the business stuff has you in a spin!

Which is how you found your way to here and this course.

Rachel Allan is pleased to present to you the ‘How to start a professional business course’ over 6 short lessons you will be guided on:

The basics
Finding your first customer
Sorting the financials
Getting online
Being organised
Planning and strategy

At the end of this course you will have all of the fundamental bits of starting a professional business ticked off, and you will have a client or at least on the way to having one!

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The Basics

Decide on your business structure, register your business name, get an ABN and sort your insurances. Find your first customer with some basic promotional ideas and sort out how you will manage money and people in your business!

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Lift Off

Once you have the basics in your business, it is time to lift off and expand your marketing and possibly even your service offerings. Learn all about creating your own website – including SEO! And assess what is working in your business and what you need to change.

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Be a Success

Strengthen the foundations of your business by creating a business plan, looking at operations, human resources, financial and marketing. Understanding where you want to be in the end and how you are going to get there.

Enrol today

Section One: Business Basics

You don’t know, what you don’t know and this course is here to help you get going in your business. This section will look at all the basic things you need to cover off.

We will consider:

Business structures
Business names
ABN’s
Insurance including Work Cover and OHS

Section Two: Finding your first customer

Getting the first elusive customer is hard. In this section we will cover some basic promotional methods you can use.

We are going to cover:

Facebook & Linkedin
Printed materials
Referrals from friends
Networking
Online referrals

Section Three: Sort the financials

It is crucial for the viability and health of your business you manage the financials. Equally important is managing all aspects of employing people.

In this section we will look at:

Accounting systems
Managing customers
Managing staff

Section Four: Getting Online

It is important for businesses to have their own websites and some level of presence.

In this section we will look at:

Websites
SEO
SEM

Section Five: Planning

To grow your business or create the success that you want from it, you need to do a certain amount of planning.

In this section we will look at:

Business planning
Human Resource Planning
Financial Planning
Marketing Planning