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Business Insight Services
Business Insight is the UK’s most comprehensive public business information service for starting, growing and developing your business, learning new skills and safeguarding your intellectual property, with open access to physical and electronic business resources.
Do you want to start a business but don’t know how to? Need to develop your management skills? Looking for business ideas? Want new customers or need new suppliers? Need to know about market trends? Wish to credit check other companies? Want to protect an idea? Looking for a grant to help you? Market a product using mailing lists? Need to keep up to date with legislation? Register a trademark?
Business Insight has 30 staff and over 40 services to help you and your business succeed. It’s like having the resources of a multi-national behind you.
We serve customers needs throughout the UK as a non-profit making service.
Our Services include:
Business Advice
Free, independent advisor service from start-up advice and business information to legal compliance and taxation.
COBRA
We provide the Complete Business Adviser database, free on the web, to anyone who lives or works in Birmingham and has a library card. This has everything any business could want including market research, funding, legal compliance, start-up and know how fact sheets.
Company Formation
We provide a same day formation service anywhere in the UK as well as a name checking service, company types information, Companies House documentation, formation and legal documentation packs.
Creative Pathways
Help talented people turn their creativity into commercial success with specialist support services including business planning, E-commerce, market research, marketing and showcasing. We can make you business ready.
Intellectual Property
Practical advice for business, inventors, manufacturers and the creative industries on
trade marks, copyright, patents, designs, confidentiality, data protection and all aspects of IP.
Jobs Insight
Information, CV clinics, seminars and support for people looking for work or thinking of becoming self-employed.
Learning Insight
We are specialists in basic business learning for individuals, companies and start-ups. Leaders in lifelong and blended learning we had over 6000 people attend our classes last year. Our flexibility (fairs, seminars, advice, online, Learn Direct, books) enables us to deliver what the customer wants, when, where and how they need it. Whether it is improving their business skills, starting a business, marketing, technology, people skills, but above all helping them to succeed.
Online Publications
Practical guides on all aspects of starting, running and growing a business, as well as intellectual property, legal templates, courses and the latest management techniques.
Start a Business
Starting a business is a challenge so it’s a good idea to get all the help you can. Our services include business planning, profiles, finding funding, fact sheets, legal compliance and everything a start up needs to survive.
Websites
Our free websites provide access to our online publications, know how, business courses, statistics, intellectual property and much more, as part of our aim to spread business knowledge throughout the community.
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