Shell LiveWIRE webcast offering advice to new businesses

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The March Shell LiveWIRE video webcast is now available in the Video Lounge at http://www.shell-livewire.org/video-...egory=featured

Recorded at the Hawke and Hunter in Edinburgh, the webcast features an informal Q&A session hosted by Anna Lawn-Thomas (Shell LiveWIRE) and a panel of business experts comprising;

• Fraser Docherty of SuperJam (www.superjam.co.uk) - Leading Young Entrepreneur
• Geoff Leask of the Prince's Scottish Youth Business Trust (PSYBT) (www.psybt.org.uk)
• James Simpson of Business Gateway (www.bgateway.com)
• Gilbert Peddie of ICASS (Innovators Counselling & Advisory Service for Scotland) (www.icass.co.uk)

Discussion topics include - what makes a good business plan and what funders are looking for, how to market and promote your business on a limited budget, protecting your Intellectual Property (IP), how to take your product from the ideas stage to being on sale in the shops, and what to do if you are too young to open a business account in your own name.

Please have a look and check out the advice- there may be something there to kick start your business!