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Liverpool Business Club supporting local businesses
MOST small business owners
understand their craft alright, but they do not understand how to run a
business. So they soldier on, unsupported, until they run out of money! Are
you in business? Do you agree? According to Liverpool Business Club (LBC)
Mastermind Group, the reasons for lots of businesses failing are simple:-
lack of training, education and support. They group think the skills and
confidence to help small businesses are out there, in Liverpool and on
Merseyside, yet they feel it has not yet been pooled or shared properly.
In a press statement we received this week, LBC's vision would be:-
"to elevate the stature and aspirations of small businesses, so that they
become truly entrepreneurial and develop into vibrant and profitable
businesses. LBC provide support, training and education and we do this both
online and face to face."
Councillor Gary Millar, former Liverpool Lord Mayor and now Liverpool
Cabinet Member for Business, Enterprise and Investment says:-
"Starting a new business can be a minefield not least due to all the various
elements that need to be considered such as do I set up as a sole trader or
limited company, where do I trade from, how do I go about marketing my
business etc. Having support from experienced business club mentors makes
the leap all the less daunting."
For younger people you have groups like Princes Trust, but for others they
think this support is lacking. The group went on to say:- "LBC
is a philanthropic venture. We aim to reverse the trend of small business
failure in Liverpool by giving back. We will empower the small business
community with skills and confidence. We do this by collaborating as a
mastermind group, sharing knowledge and experience and providing previously
unheard of levels of training, education and support, all within an easily
affordable monthly budget."
Mark Cohen, managing partner at Alexander Myerson, who is 1 of the City's
oldest Chartered Accountants says:- "What Liverpool Business Club
offers is exactly the type of hands on, practical and affordable education
and support that small businesses need to survive and thrive!"
LBC currently, we are told, have over 1400 members and that membership is
free! "We are about to introduce a mastermind membership category for
£50 per month. For this, our members receive monthly 2 hour sessions of
networking, business education, coaching and peer group work, supported by 7
days per week of online email and business chat line support. Plus also
online video education and training. In this way, over time, we will help to
transform struggling, small businesses into skillfull, confident going
concerns."
What do you our readers think about this? Is the LBC the only option or do
other exist? Please email us at:-
news24@southportreporter.com.
"Like it or not, social media and digital marketing are transforming news
reporting and business engagement across the globe. Yet across the UK, there
is a dramatic skills shortage in this aspect of business. LBC is tackling
this issue too. Our Social Media Training Academy is 1 of a handful of
companies in the UK, equipped to deliver Diploma Level 3 training in Social
Media for Business. The great news for small businesses is that the diploma
level training is fully funded, subject to certain basic limitations. It is
classroom based, 1 day release per fortnight, spread across 12 months
combining both knowledge and practical skills training. The course is
available to apprentices from age 16 and to established members of staff
looking to up skill. Just think, if every 1 man band operation in the UK
employed just one member off staff, there would be no unemployment in the
UK! It's about time small businesses were treated seriously and given the
same opportunities for training, education and support as big business.
We're on it and it starts here in Liverpool, on Thursday, 10 December 2015,
with a pre-launch event, from 6pm to 8pm, at the Shankly Hotel on Victoria
Street." The group added.
For more information about this group please and this event, please visit
this
link.
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