Succeeding in a small business

Introduction

Figure 1  Charting success

Long description

Welcome to the Starting your small business course where you will look at what it takes to make a business succeed. This section will take approximately three hours to complete.

Once completed you will have the opportunity to obtain the ‘Succeeding in a small business’ badge. In this section, you will:

• look at what success means
• look at why businesses fail
• explore some common things in successful businesses
• apply these ideas to real life situations
• establish some ideas that can help your business succeed.

To help you along the way, there are a number of activities where you reflect on what you have been learning within this section, and how you can apply these new skills and knowledge in practice.