Ideas & Offers
Is my business idea viable?
Explore the external forces, customer realities and market evidence that help you assess a business idea.
Strategy & Planning
Turn your business vision into a plan
Use the Orbit model to map the turnover, customers, team, marketing and funding your next stage of growth may require.
Strategy & Planning
Lean Canvas: Explained
A Lean Canvas gets your business idea onto one page, making gaps and assumptions harder to ignore.
Marketing & Sales
How to talk about your business like a brand
Build a customer-centred brand story that makes your business more relevant, distinctive and memorable.
Money & Funding
Revenue, profit and what you can actually pay yourself
Three numbers that decide whether the month worked, and how to read them without a finance degree.
Ideas & Offers
Value Proposition Canvas explained in 90 seconds
Use the Value Proposition Canvas to connect customer needs with a clearer, more relevant offer.
Sustainability & Carbon Literacy
How does climate change affect small businesses?
See where climate risk could affect your suppliers, operations, people, costs and customers.
Ideas & Offers
How to build a sharing economy business
How to turn one underused tent into a peer-to-peer marketplace - and what it takes to make a sharing model work.
Sustainability & Carbon Literacy
Sustainable marketing for purpose-led brands
Caner Veli and Isabella Desmarais discuss storytelling, transparency and trust.
Sustainability & Carbon Literacy
What is the green economy? Jobs, skills and opportunities
Joe Ahern and Farah Lodi explain what the green economy means, where opportunities differ and how existing skills can contribute.
Sustainability & Carbon Literacy
How to build a sustainability strategy for your business
Focus on where you already have genuine influence - and turn good intentions into positive action for collective change.
Sustainability & Carbon Literacy
What is a sustainability mindset?
Dr Karen Cripps explains how values, beliefs, emotions and habits shape whether sustainability becomes part of organisational life.