Small Business Start-up Course

Launch your entrepreneurial journey with the Small Business Start-up Course from BOLC Academy. Designed for aspiring business owners, this flexible online programme teaches how to start and run your own online business while developing the leadership and management, and strategic budget planning skills needed for long-term success. Whether you are turning a business idea into reality or exploring opportunities in digital entrepreneurship, this course provides practical guidance that supports professional development and business growth. As part of our wider Leadership & Management Training portfolio, it also helps strengthen business leadership, decision making, and management capability for today's competitive marketplace.

Successfully starting an online business requires more than a great idea. Entrepreneurs need to understand market research, business planning, financial management, marketing strategies, and resource allocation to build a sustainable business. Throughout this course, you will learn how to identify profitable opportunities, choose the right target market, develop an effective online presence, create a professional website, and implement marketing strategies that attract and retain customers. These practical skills provide a strong foundation for confident business management and informed decision making.

The programme also explores financial projections, sales processes, resource planning, and customer services strategies, helping learners understand how successful online businesses grow over time. These transferable skills are valuable for business owners, freelancers, managers, and professionals seeking career progression through entrepreneurship or leadership development. The course also complements further study in Business Management, Project Management, Strategic Leadership, Communication Skills, Decision Making, and Professional Development, enabling learners to expand their workplace skills and management expertise.

Study online with complete flexibility, supported by comprehensive learning materials, practical assignments, and expert tutor guidance throughout your learning journey. By successfully completing each unit, you will gain the confidence to plan, launch, and manage an online business while developing valuable leadership qualities that support future growth.

Continue building your business knowledge with BOLC Academy by exploring our Leadership & Management Training hub, Management Qualifications, leadership resource guides, and related business development courses. Strengthen your entrepreneurial mindset, enhance your leadership capability, and take the next step towards building a successful online business and a rewarding professional future.

The course explores various topics from basics of learning how to choose your market to designing a website and developing and online marketing strategy for your new found business. The course specially suits those who have a business idea and want to run their business online.

Each unit requires an assignment to complete to ensure that you grasp the concepts thoroughly. Utilising the high quality course content on course completion you will know how to start an online business, and how to grow your business and earn profits.

The course covers topics like; history and Benefits of Online Business, Identifying the Possibilities, Financial Projections, developing marketing Strategies, Gathering Resources, Creating a Marketing Plan, and exploring the Sales Process.

Unit 1: How Online Business can benefit you

History
Benefits of Online Business
Identifying the Possibilities

Unit 2: Creating a Business Plan

Financial Projections
Marketing Strategies
Gathering Resources
Creating a Marketing Plan
The Sales Process
What is Crowdfunding?

Unit 3: Building your Online Business

Basic Elements
Creating a Website
E-Commerce
Creating a Mobile Presence
Internet Marketing Basic

Paying in Instalments: £180(Interest FREE Instalments)

Deposit: £40

No of Instalments: 10

Each Instalment: £14

Pay in Full: (£40 Discount) £140

At the end of this course successful learners will receive a Certificate of Achievement from the Quality Licence Scheme and a Learner Unit Summary (which lists the components the learner has completed as part of the course).

This course and/or training programme has been endorsed by the Quality Licence Scheme for its high-quality, non-regulated provision and training programmes. This course and/or training programme is not regulated by Ofqual and is not an accredited qualification. Your training provider will be able to advise you on any further recognition, for example progression routes into further and/or higher education. For further information please visit the Learner FAQs on the Quality Licence Scheme website.

Upon completion of the course, you’ll know exactly what it takes to plan, launch and manage a successful online business. You’ll have the opportunity to choose almost any online business area in which to set up your own company – typical examples including e-commerce, web design and development, web marketing and more. Potential earnings for those who succeed are effectively limitless.

Anyone interested in setting up a business online
Existing web business owners
Online sellers looking to improve sales
Employees interested in diversifying their career options
Candidates who’d like to become their own boss

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