Starting Your Business
It doesn't have to be daunting!Your new business starts right here. Register your company, get advice, a website, your marketing and more from Lobster and others.
Resources for starting your business
We have collected links to help you get your business started, find funding and support.
Articles & Advice
Looking for some helpful advice on starting your new venture. We have a library of articles that can help.
Recommended Companies
Review our list of companies that we can highly recommend.
Business Start-Up Resources
Over the years, we’ve helped many business start-up and grow, often from just an dream, taking it to a full reality with the business owner.
We love working in the exciting arena of start-ups when budgets are tight, the pressure is on and the dreams are huge.
Here we present resources to help you get started, find the help and information you need and the services that will make your idea a reality.
On the right of this page we present a number of links to external resources. Here you can register your business via one of our partners, register a domain name and even find investment for your new business.
Below we have collected a directory of businesses we’ve worked with over the years and can highly recommend.
Company Registrations (from £34.99+VAT)
Our company formation system offers an all inclusive, easy to use, cost effective solution to forming a limited company in the UK.
Register your domain
Make sure you nab the domain name you want for your website before someone else does!
Looking for investment?
Get connected to angel investors in the U.K. who are ready and waiting to meet you.
Welsh Government Support
We’re lucky in Wales to have a fantastic source of support, help, finance and more from the local Government
Support group
We have a popular support group for people just starting out in business. You’re welcome to join us.
Need a website and marketing?
Since 2004 we have been helping start up businesses to get established online with their website, social media, advertising, branding, business cards and much more…
Recent posts with tips on starting your business
How To Find A Free Mentor For Your Start-up
When we start out in business, we need someone with experience to help us find the right path. We all need a mentor. Business coaches can be expensive. What if you can’t afford one? There are business people out there who have offered their time free of charge to help...
How Your B2B Company Can Dominate Social Media
Using social media to engage with potential customers and to build a community around your company is not only useful for small businesses – B2B companies can also use sites like LinkedIn and Twitter to their advantage too! Much in the same way that a small business...
Get Tooled Up! 7 Social Media Tools To Boost Your Social Media
Ah, social media tools! The internet is awash with them. But which ones are good for small business? It is true that there seems to be a bright new social media toy to play with every couple of weeks or so, and rather than roll our eyes and shake our heads in...
Is Your Small Business Niche Suitable For Social Media?
In this day and age of constant contact, fresh content and high visibility, the notion of not participating on social media is an odd idea for most small business owners. It is hard to believe that there are still some businesses that don't have to do social media....
Is Social Media The New Customer Complaints Department?
Is Social Media The New Customer Complaints Department? According to a study conducted by Echo Managed Services, a leading customer contact outsourcer, more consumers are turning to social media to voice their complaints than ever before. The study has shown that...
New Year’s Resolutions For Small Businesses
So, here we are in a brand-new year! We have taken a well-deserved break to spend precious time with our family and friends, exchanged gifts – and probably gained so many extra pairs of socks that you will be good for the rest of the decade – and maybe also wished...
Still Looking For Ways To Increase Shares And Re-tweets?
Still looking for ways to increase shares and re-tweets? As small #business owners, we all want to be able to craft original and engaging blog posts and #social media posts that will not only please our followers and blog visitors, but also stand a good chance of...
Using Candid Photographs To Promote Your Business Brand
Using candid photographs to Promote your #Business Brand Earlier this year my local town launched a new #Facebook page to jointly promote local business alongside what is so great about our town. Rather than just write about a single business, or an upcoming special...
How To Craft The Perfect Facebook Business Page
How To Craft The Perfect #Facebook Business Page When you are running your own small #business, you have to be a bit of a DIY expert, especially if you are a sole trader or have such a limited budget that you cannot hire in #social media professionals to help to boost...
Are You Answering Back With Intent?
Are You Answering Back With Intent? Your blog and #social media sites are building a nice following, and you are seeing some comments on a regular basis, but is your dialogue really working for you? The more you converse with your readers, the more your engagement...
Today I Am Going To Blog About…..Erm…
Small #business blogs. Love them or hate them, but what should you DO with them? You may be a natural born writer with lots of ideas spinning around your head that you can blog about. Then again, you may be the complete opposite, and really struggle to string a...
Why Do We Crave Success, But Hate To See It In Others
Why Do We Crave Success, But Hate To See It In Others Back in the New Year, I joined a world-wide affiliate #marketing group with an aim to be part of a team of like-minded entrepreneurs, with a view to giving each other encouragement and moral support. All is going...
Recommended companies
The following are companies that we have worked with over the years and can recommend to anyone starting a new business venture.
If you can’t find the service you need here then feel free to drop us a line at [email protected] and we’ll be able to point you to someone we recommend.
Accountants
Green & Co Accountants
01633 871122
www.greenandco.com
Accountants Plus
The Enterprise Centre, Llwynypia Road, Tonypandy, CF40 2ET
01443 437495
www.accountantsplus.co.uk
I.T Support
QuickSmart I.T.
Cardiff Bay Business Centre, 201 Titan House, Lewis Road, Cardiff, CF24 5BS
0330 330 9069
www.quicksmart-it.com
Branding and graphic design
Touchline Design Limited
96 Cardiff Road, Llandaff, Cardiff, CF5 2DT
07932 753 668
www.touchlinedesign.com
Washington Design Consultants Limited
Avon House, 19 Stanwell Road, Penarth CF64 2EZ
029 2071 1911
www.washdesign.co.uk
Creative Services Limited
Derlwyn, Ynyshir Road Porth, RCT, CF39 0DY
029 2115 0013
creative-services.ltd.uk
Business launch
Indaba Corporate Events
96 Cardiff Road, Llandaff, Cardiff, CF5 2DT
07507 349076 / 07974 095607
indabacorporateevents.co.uk
Business Insurance
Motts Insurance Brokers
Times house, Plassey street, Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan CF64 1ET
029 2070 0635
www.mottsinsurance.com
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