welcome
If you want to begin a business, you’re in the right place.
We’re here to help you get your business idea off the ground with step-by-step, practical ways to attract customers, set the right price, manage your money, stay sane and much more.
Step-by-step guides to get you started. Practical advice for coping with risk.
By humans, for humans: our free guides, exclusive eBook, templates and low-cost website packages offer great value and know-how to help ensure you get the best start for your startup.
Small yet mighty. Fledgling startups START HERE
the book
Giving you the confidence to create, adapt and succeed as a startup.
How to Be in Business delivers practical, positive steps to build the mindset and marketing for success. Giving you ways to define your unique selling points, find customers, manage money, cope with risk, self-sabotage and adapt to change.
“A very practical hands-on person, I loved the style and language of the book, the quotes along the way and areas to write notes. Jacky knows her stuff when it comes to marketing; excellently written and highly engaging.”
Dawn O’Keefe, Co-founder & Managing Director SHINE
Packed with sound advice, if you’re looking for a straightforward, step-by-step approach to build your business without losing yourself, then you’ve found it.
If you want to start up, stand out and stay sane, get your book.
Let’s begin because there is no right time, there is simply the time we have now.
free guides
Practical, proven and productive! Use our free marketing guides to get you started.
- Discover how to create your brand and unique selling points
- Find your target audience and track your competitors
- Work out how to create and keep loyal customers
- Improve your ability to adapt and innovate in a changing world
- Present yourself well in front of others
Start how you mean to go on with #1: how to build a great brand.
websites
Eye-catching and effective: low cost websites that won’t let you down.
BEGIN with a great value starter website package with no hidden costs or restrictions.
- Fast loading, eye-catching design
- Free email address
- One year’s hosting
- Social media integration
- Easy-to-use content editor that lets you update your site anytime, anywhere
And that’s not all… Discover all the benefits of our great value starter web package.
translations
Talk to the world
There’s no business without trust. There’s no trust without understanding.
Put our Micro Oiseau community of talented translators to work and let’s get you talking to the world.
1 Million Startups member in support of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) startups. Listed in the Global Entrepreneurship Declaration for decent work and economic growth. #togetherWE
Created by award-winning marketing copywriter Jacky Fitt FRSA, Micro Oiseau is a startup marketing support project in collaboration with Ned Hoste and The Big Ideas Collective. Representing many years of brand, marketing, design, copy, SEO and publishing expertise, we believe business support should be easy to understand, easy to access, good value and open to everyone. Find out more about Jacky. Discover Ned and The Big Ideas Collective.
If you’re looking to begin in business, then you’ve found a great place to start. And, because we are a global village, we can help translate your words so you can speak to all the people that matter most to you through our community of talented translators. We have even got a range of step-by-step translation guides by translator and author Grey Drane, to help you work out the best approach for your business needs.
