freely available business information
How would you like to help your business grow?
These are just some of the resources I have come across - from thought leaders, gurus and respected practitioners.
White papers, ebooks, etc
Business Essentials - British Library Business and IP Centre - What you need to know to run a business and where to find it
Website Redesign - White paper from Hubspot
Knock Knock - Seth Godin's Incomplete Guide to Building a Website that Works
7 Steps to Small Business Marketing Success - John Jantsch
Inbound Marketing Methodology - Five key steps for inbound marketing success from Tomorrow Peole
100 Inboumd Marketing Ideas - Hubspot
Beginners Guide to SEO - SEOMoz
SEO from the experts - Hubspot
Creating a Social Media Strategy - Vocus
Integrating social media and email marketing - Hubspot
A LinkedIn profile that will work for you - Phil Richards
The Perfect Press Release - Jane Lee, Dexterity
Effective Leadership from the Professional Coaching Alliance
How to make teams effective from the Professional Coaching Alliance
National Organisations
FSB - non-profit, campaigning pressure group; promoting and protecting interests of small businesses with advice, information and events
IOD -
serving and supporting business leaders and raising professional standards worldwide; research, events, training, business hub
CBI - The voice of business; lobbying organisation both in UK and abroad
HMRC - help with tax, paye, vat, etc. and start-up advice
ACAS - aims to improve organisations and working life through better emplyment relations
HSE - advice, guidance and resources on all aspects of health and safety
startups - advice and resources for start-ups, whether first timers or serial entrepreneurs
startup nation - practical information to start and grow your own business
startup donut - reliable information and resources from the national Enterprise Network
smallbusiness.co.uk - advice and resource on all aspects of running a business
Free Software Directory - project of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO)
Local Organisations
The Professional Coaching Allinace - articles, guides and ebooks
Business West - support, advice, events, networking and training for the region
Business Link - Local Business Link Advisory Services closes 15/11/11, but online serv
ices remain.
BRAVE - independent, not-for-profit helping entrepreneurs to run successful businesses in Bristol
BEN - membership and resource centre helping science and technology business
Bristol Media - supporting Bristol media and creative community with support, networking, events
Sureteam - unravelling the complexity of health and safety
Sites of Interest
Maverick Marketing - strategic and tactical marketing blog
The Full Blog - sounding off about marketing stuff
Copyblogger - online marketing and copywriting blog
{grow} - marketing, social media, humainty
Seth Godin - entrepreneur, author and thought leader
Windmill Networking - social media strategy for business and professionals
Chris Brogan - the future of business communication and social software technologies
Six Pixels of Separation - digital media and marketing - insights and provocations
Guy Kawasaki - entrepreneur, author and thought leader
John Jantsch - Duct Tape Marketing
|
