SMALL BUSINESS LOANS

Small Loans for Business is a source of loan funding for business start-ups and existing businesses that have not been able to secure all of their finance from conventional high street lenders. Small Loans for Business provides loans to both existing entrepreneurs and people starting a business. Loans of £3,000 to £20,000 can be used…

WERE MOVING!

As some of you are already aware, the Brighter team has been growing over the past few months, so much so that its getting alittle tight in the Brighter HQ offices, which means its time to pack our bags and move to bigger and brighter things.. Pinemonte Business Centre in Chesterfield is a new hub…

STRATEGIC ONLINE MARKETING BOOTCAMP

Brighter Directions have joined forces with local innovative company TBAT to create a series of action workshops across the region in order to give you a commercial edge within the market place OverviewOnline marketing is growing rapidly and today’s businesses must embrace this change or simply get left behind! This Advanced Social Media & Online…

WHAT NOT TO DO – MARKETING

Marketing can be damaging to a company: After speaking to a company recently I wanted to share our discussion as ‘what not to do’ when developing your marketing strategy: I wont name the company in question for obvious reasons, no-one is born with the knowledge to get everything right first time (me included) and were…

A GROWING TEAM

Brighter Directions is a growing company with a range of services from staff training solutions to event management and strategic marketing solutions who have developed a range of solutions over the years to help and support businesses from across the UK and internationally. We are happy to welcome a new addition to the team, Debbie…

LEADERS FIRST FUNDING

There is still time for you to take advantage of your entitlement for strategic development and training for your company with the Leaders First program. Brighter Directions are approved suppliers which means that you can access our services and also take advantage of the funding to use towards the cost with £500 fixed funding and…

PATENT & PROTECT

Patents can be vital for businesses that have products or services they would need to protect and can cost from £230 and £280 to process the application. Intellectual Property lets people own the work you create and Patents specifically protect the features and processes that make things work. This lets inventors profit from their inventions.…

SOCIAL MEDIA WORKSHOPS

Brighter Directions are ecstatic to be delivering social media training on behalf of Business Link in a series of workshops across Derbyshire this summer. Working in conjunction with local company TBAT Innovation and Business Link we are helping businesses across the region come to grips with using social media applications like Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn…

TAKE ADVANTAGE OF BUSINESS LINK

Business Link have been a valuable asset to my clients over the years, helping to develop smaller businesses with a variety of resources, not only that, doing it for free. In the last year (2009/10), EMB Ltd, the organisation responsible for delivering the regional Business Link service has enabled over 80,000 businesses to receive the…

HAVE YOUR SAY ABOUT GOVERNMENT

Businesses are being asked by Government how they want to redress the balance between the citizen and the state as part of a public consultation launched by the Deputy Prime Minister. Your Freedom is an opportunity for anyone to suggest ideas on restoring liberties that have been lost, repealing unnecessary laws and removing excessive regulation…