Small business resources

Access all areas? How Government can best help Small and Medium-sized companies

SMEs make up over 99% of private enterprises in the UK. Our Shape the Agenda paper looks at how Government might help this sector of business whose turnover is worth over £1,500 billion a year.

Growth strategies for business

If you are interested in growing a business through profitable customers and first-class products or services, you will find plenty of useful advice here.

Our growth strategy guides focus on the many options for growing a business, whether through encouraging existing customers to buy more, appealing to a new group of customers or extending your product or service range.

10 minute guides and fact files

We have produced a series of short guides and fact files covering marketing-related subjects. These guides include practical techniques and checklists to help your business grow.

Our 10 minute guides include:

• An Introduction to marketing for small business
• The 7Ps of marketing and how marketing works
• Marketing planning toolkit
• Customer service
• Marketing communications
• Defining your unique selling proposition

To see our full list of 10 minute guides and fact files and to download them click on the buttons below.

   

Gain government funding to attend our training programmes

The Chartered Institute of Marketing offers a wide range of one day workshops in highly relevant subjects for small businesses. Follow the link in ‘Related links’ to find out how you can access government funding towards attending our training and to search for a course that meets your needs.