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Attending Boot Camp will get your business off to a flying start

What is bootcamp

Boot Camp is an intensive two-day learning experience for high-fliers with a strong solid business idea. Only those with sheer determination and a desire to succeed will make it through the application process. Those that do make it through will learn the most important skills needed for getting their business off the ground and the Business Link team will equip you to achieve fast growth, while maintaining full control.


A subsidised fee of £95 applies and covers:

  • Interactive sessions that will take you through business planning, sales and marketing, finance, funding and tax issues
  • We'll teach you how to network and how to create elevator pitches that sell
  • You'll learn how to expand your business and put together effective teams
  • A voucher worth £500 to spend on specialist advice is available to selective businesses
  • You'll receive one-to-one sessions with specialists covering tax, export and funding
  • Our advisers and researchers will provide you with ongoing support
  • Opportunity to review progress and compare experiences at a Boot Camp Follow Up session (an additional £30 fee applies)


Day 1

9:00am to 6:30pm

  • Introduction and Elevator Pitches
  • Strategic Planning
  • Market research and research support
  • Marketing
  • Selling
  • Mobile computing advice and support


Day 2

9:00am to 5:00pm

  • Elevator pitch review
  • Business finance
  • Business funding in East of England
  • One-to-one session with HMRC, EEDA, UKTI
  • Building a team
  • SEO Advice from a Northampton SEO team
The process of submitting an application may take approx 30 minutes. Please ensure you have your sales and profit forecasts to hand. You may wish to save your form and come back to it later. In order to use the save function you will need to login with your email address and a password which will be emailed to you after you have entered a valid email address into the form. If you wish to proceed please click APPLY NOW.
 
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1. Have you been trading for less than 3 years or are about to start?


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2. Do you intend to take on staff in the next 1-2 years?


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3. Do you live in Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Essex, Norfolk or Suffolk?


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