Your Key Business Skills
Running a small business often requires that you become a
jack-of-all-trades. It is therefore important to know early on the
skills that you have and those that you will either have to learn or
delegate to others. The key business skills to consider include:
- Strategic Management. Creating a business and strategic plan for your business and making sure you keep to it.
- Basic Accounting. Which records to keep, how to keep them and how to file them.
- Financial Management. Where to find financing and how to manage it once you’ve sourced it.
- People Management. Hiring your first employee and how to manage them.
- Marketing. How to market your business through traditional channels, web and social media.
- Sales. How to complete a sale and look after your customers.
- Operations Management. Choosing and managing your suppliers.
When considering the skills that you lack there are three avenues you
can take: you can hire employees who are strong in those specific areas,
you can engage professional business advisors, or you can take the time
to learn these key skills yourself.
The Basics of Business
In acknowledgement of the need for these essential skills, Small
Business BC has created a new affordable seminar series to help BC’s
entrepreneurs. The Basics of Business is a combination of courses including:
- Branding- More than a Logo
- Powerful Marketing for Small Business
- Getting Your Business Online-A Website
- Tax Tips from an Accountant
- My First Year in Business: A Financial Overview
- Operations for Small Business
- Sales Strategies for Small Business
- Attracting and Hiring Top Talent
- Business Viability 1- The Break Even Analysis
- Business Viability 2- The Cash Flow Forecast
- Social Media and Online Marketing Tactics
