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

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

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Build A Business - Module 1 is a free session held at Altrincham Library in Manchester on 15 September 2026. The event focuses on how market research and other resources can support start-ups and small businesses.

Discover why market research and other resources can boost your start up or small business to success.

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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Know Your Customers, Get Competitive: Build A Business - Module 1 takes place on Tuesday, 15 September 2026 at 13:00.

Know Your Customers, Get Competitive: Build A Business - Module 1 is held at Altrincham Library in Manchester (2 Pott Street, Altrincham, WA14 1AH).

Entry to Know Your Customers, Get Competitive: Build A Business - Module 1 is free.

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