Unless you are operating from your home, with no office
and no staff, you will need to engage some professional services, and these all
come with a cost attached. As soon as you are dealing with clients and or have
an office, you may need advice, expertise and support from a range of people
including:
IT support
to establish an IT infrastructure, broadband, printers, networks, cloud apps.
A telecoms provider
for your landline and mobile phones.
Website developers,
to build, maintain the site, and drive traffic to it. They may also offer digital marketing.
Marketing and advertising advisers. Depending on your market you may need to advertise in
local, regional, or national print. Or online advertising may work for you.
Legal advice
for company structure, leases, terms and conditions, contracts, employment law.
etc
Accountants
will also advise on company structure, complete statutory accounts and give tax
advice.
Banks will
provide banking facilities, possibly funding, credit and debit cards, perhaps
payment collection facilities.
Pension provider.
Again, this will vary but may be mandatory if you have any staff.
Insurer. To cover
equipment, premises, perhaps professional indemnity, employer’s liability,
perhaps income and business continuity, maybe key man insurance.
Energy suppliers.
to provide electricity and gas.
Other things you will need to budget for include,
local authority taxes, Water rates, Purchase of hardware, Purchase of Software
licenses etc. So depending on the type of company you are starting and the number
of people involved, you may have to sit with all these professionals. If you
are looking to start a business but don’t want the hassles of getting all this
people you can contact these guys. They offer incubation and acceleration,
which means you do not have to worry in the early days to get all the people
listed above.
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