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Steps to help grow your business - finding finance, mentors, increasing sales and developing products and services

• Plan for growth

  Once your business is established and you’re making a profit on the…

• Get extra funding

  Growing your business, whether through increased sales or improved…

• Increase sales to existing customers

  How you go about increasing sales depends on your circumstances and how…

• Attract new customers

  One way of finding new customers for your products and services is by…

• Improve your products and services

  If you’re looking to grow your business by improving your products and…

• Develop new products and services

  If you’re planning to develop new products and services, you should test…

• Hire and train staff

  As your business expands, you’ll need more capacity to produce or provide…

• Work with a mentor

  Business mentors can help you develop your ideas for growth by sharing…

Blogs where government organisations talk about their work and share information and ideas.

• Updated: 21 December 2017

Explains how to make sure people can find your data and how to maintain it.

• Updated: 28 March 2023

Find news, information and advice from the government on starting or growing your business.

• Updated: 3 March 2021

How and when to publish a blog.

• Updated: 18 September 2020

This playbook explains how we use social media at GDS. In it, we share our best practice, what we've learned and what we're planning to do.

• Updated: 23 January 2023

A speech by Sarah Cardell, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) Chief Executive, delivered at the techUK Tech Policy Conference 2025.

• Updated: 10 March 2025

Progress update explaining the process for rationalising output and outcome monitoring indicators for future funding.

• Updated: 28 July 2023

The International Tech Hub Network (ITHN) works to forge innovation partnerships between the UK and international tech sectors, stimulate local digital economies, and build high-end digital skills to drive sustainable jobs and growth.

• Updated: 18 January 2022

This guidance provides information about how HMCTS developed its digital services as part of the HMCTS Reform Programme and the benefits to users.

• Updated: 24 March 2025