OHM Workshop on 15 Oct at Venture Wales

OHM Small Business is holding a workshop in collaboration with Venture Wales Monday, October 15th from 3-5pm.  Spaces are limited so please reserve your place by emailing ohm@tso-creative.com with your name and company details.

Topics from guest speakers will cover marketing & finance:

Jonathan Good, Barclays
Accessing finance for SME's Loans v Overdrafts

Tony Down, Venture Wales Consultancy
budgeting/forecasting, accounting records, registering with HMRC

Jessie Hall, TSO Creative 
Social media essentials for small business

Location: Venture Wales
Head Office
Ty Menter
Parc Navigation
Abercynon
CF45 4SN
Tel : 01443 742888

Our new website goes live

After long anticipation we are very proud to officially announce that our new website has gone live.  This bespoke design reflects our style, simplistic and modern.  Let us know what you think.

http://www.tso-creative.com/index.html

Wider Scope interview with Tony Down confirmed - Support available for UK startups with a technology or high growth focus

Wider Scope is pleased to announce the interview with Tony Down.  Tony has owns his own Accounting practice, is a recognised business mentor for high growth and technology businesses in Wales and across the UK.

Interview will be released August 14th on our You Tube and Vimeo channels, just search TSO Creative or Wider Scope on that day.

For more information about Tony

www.tonydown.com

www.twitter.com/tony_down

http://tony-down.blogspot.co.uk/

www.venturewales.com

Wider Scope Videos Coming Soon!

We are now accepting applications for Wider Scope Series.  This series will focus on start ups and small businesses featuring workshop tips, entrepreneurs & their stories and key topic debates.

Download the form here:
http://www.tso-creative.com/Wider_Scope.html 

Blue Ocean Strategy for innovative startups

Our Ohm (Overhaul my) Small Business Programme is really taking off with the recent successes of Bixby & Co, Homes of Elegance, Robyn Coles and our other clients we are so very proud of.  Running a small business, especially a startup can be challenging but there is so much information out there to develop the right marketing strategy for you.


I started working with a company that is developing an online software for the airline industry and their offer is like nothing else on the market.  The client, a CIM himself, heard of a strategy that fit his business model quite well and it intrigued me.


This blog is dedicated to innovative startups or spin offs that differentiate themselves and offering it at a low cost.  If your idea or company falls into this category is would be beneficial to look into a Blue Ocean Strategy.  Red is considered the area that is currently the active market with competition and 'Blue Ocean' is considered the new area where differentiation creates a new market and offer.


Blue Ocean Strategy framework & tools include: strategy canvas, value curve, four actions framework, six paths, buyer experience cycle, buyer utility map, and blue ocean idea index."

I encourage new businesses to take the next step in innovation and create new markets.  Good luck out there to all our entrepreneurs with bright ideas.