Ben Coker

Your Helping Business Part 7 – Compliance VIDEO COMING SOON AUDIO COMING SOON ‘COMPLIANCE’ AND LEGAL STUFF Whether you set up a formal company structure or not, you still have a number of ‘compliance’ issues to contend with. Sole Traders as well as Limited Companies have to comply with all applicable Health & Safety regulations and its essential that you know and understand these before you start trading. It only takes one ‘accident’ or complaint to put you out of…

Your Helping Business Part 6 – Operating your Business VIDEO COMING SOON AUDIO COMING SOON What You Need This section is about the equipment and facilities you’re going to need on top of the ‘tools of your trade’ whatever they may be such as appropriate furniture, a therapy bed or couch and so forth. You know what they are, but you will need some other equipment and facilities. Remember – everything you buy for your business, including your own personal…

Your Helping Business Part 5 – Planning Your Business VIDEO COMING SOON AUDIO COMING SOON Before you start you need a Plan. The first step is to think about how you’re going to operate. Will you be seeing clients face to face or remotely? Is your treatment ‘hands-on’ requiring appropriate facilities? Are you going to work ‘full time’ or ‘part time’ and what does that mean? So many hours a day, so many days a week? If you are a…

Your Helping Business Part 4 – Managing Yourself VIDEO COMING SOON AUDIO COMING SOON ‘TIME MANAGEMENT’ This title is in quotes because it’s actually something neither you or I can do. We can’t ‘manage’ time. Time passes as you’ll have learned earlier and it doesn’t really exist. What we’re really talking about here is how your ‘Helping’ business fits in with everything else you do. There is a whole industry around the topic of ‘time management’ and people will want…

Your Helping Business Part 3 – Location VIDEO COMING SOON AUDIO COMING SOON First of all where you are and where you operate from. What service are you delivering? Does it depend on where you are geographically? If it’s a personal service you deliver physically then the constraints of location vary. Do you travel to clients, or do they come to you? Can you deliver your service over the phone or via Zoom? It all depends what you do and…

Your Helping Business Part 2 – Structure VIDEO COMING SOON AUDIO COMING SOON Business Structure Quite early on you’ll need to decide how your business is structured and what status it has in the eyes of the authorities. There are effectively three options. Sole Trader A Sole Trader is someone who operates a business without any formal company structure. Income from the business is treated by the HMRC as personal income and taxed accordingly and there are fewer options to…

Your Helping Business Part 1 – Why Start a Business? VIDEO COMING SOON AUDIO COMING SOON Why You need to be clear on the reason WHY you are starting this business, why you want to do it and why your potential market might engage with you. The first thing to do, if you’ve not already completed it is to work through the Business Vision Workbook and the follow up Coaching session (available separately). If you haven’t done so yet you…