Know Your Customers, Get Competitive: Build A Business - Module 1

Fri May 15 2026 at 01:00 pm to 04:00 pm UTC+01:00

Altrincham Library | Altrincham

Trafford Libraries
Publisher/HostTrafford Libraries
Know Your Customers, Get Competitive: Build A Business - Module 1
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Discover why market research and other resources can boost your start up or small business to success.
About this Event

Giving valuable insights into unlocking the Business & IP Centre Manchester’s £5 million collection of UK and global business databases (including market research and company and financial information) to assess market potential and develop a viable business plan, upskilling you to ‘know your market’.

At this session you will learn:​

  • Why market research & other sources of information are important to the success of your business idea​
  • How to find information on customers, market size, competitors, trends & other key data.​
  • The basics on conducting your own research​
  • How to use these tools to help complete your own business model canvas

This session is one of the modules in the Build A Business in GM Libraries core workshop programme. Other workshops:

  • Business Basics
  • Intellectual Property: Protect Your Assets
  • Marketing: The Essentials

PLEASE NOTE:
This workshop is part of our Build A Business in GM Libraries programme, funded by the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.
To be eligible to attend this workshop you must either:

Own a small business (including sole traders and microbusinesses) OR
You are thinking of starting a business or have a business idea you want to develop

You or your business also needs to have a postcode within one of the following Greater Manchester authorities:
Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Manchester, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford or Wigan.

Find out more at buildabusinessgm.org

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Altrincham Library, 2 Pott Street, Altrincham, United Kingdom

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