Sarah Hilton has been a business examiner for over 20 years and a business teacher for longer. She is now a teacher trainer, business teacher and qualification developer. She runs the website revisionstation which provides smashing business teaching resources at budget prices.
Sarah Hilton has been a business examiner for over 20 years and a business teacher for longer. She is now a teacher trainer, business teacher and qualification developer. She runs the website revisionstation which provides smashing business teaching resources at budget prices.
EDEXCEL GCSE BUSINESS 2.3.3 MANAGING QUALITY (COMPLETE LESSON) 233
This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a worksheet and covers:
The concept of quality and its importance in:
•The production of goods and the provision of services: quality control and quality assurance
•Allowing a business to control costs and gain a competitive advantage
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EDEXCEL GCSE BUSINESS 2.3.4 THE SALES PROCESS (COMPLETE LESSON) 234
This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a worksheet and covers:
The sales process:
Product knowledge, speed and efficiency of service, customer engagement, responses to customer feedback, post-sales service
The importance to businesses of providing good customer service
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EDEXCEL GCSE BUSINESS 2.5.2 EFFECTIVE RECRUITMENT (COMPLETE LESSON) 252
This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a worksheet and covers:
Different job roles and responsibilities:
Key job roles and their responsibilities: directors, senior managers, supervisors/team leaders, operational and support staff
How businesses recruit people:
Documents: person specification and job description, application form, CV
Recruitment methods used to meet different business needs
(Internal and external recruitment)
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EDEXCEL GCSE BUSINESS 1.1.2 RISK AND REWARD (COMPLETE LESSON) 112
This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a worksheet and covers:
The role of business enterprise and the purpose of business activity:
•To produce goods or services
•To meet customer needs
•To add value: convenience, branding, quality, design, unique selling points
The role of entrepreneurship:
•An entrepreneur: organises resources, makes business decisions, takes risks
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EDEXCEL GCSE BUSINESS 1.2.3 MARKET SEGMENTATION (COMPLETE LESSON) 123
This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a worksheet and covers:
How businesses use market segmentation to target customers:
● identifying market segments: location, demographics, lifestyle, income, age
● market mapping to identify a gap in the market and the competition.
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EDEXCEL GCSE BUSINESS 1.2.4 THE COMPETITIVE ENVIRONMENT (COMPLETE LESSON) 124
This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a worksheet and covers:
Understanding the competitive environment:
Strengths and weaknesses of competitors based on: price, quality, location, product range and customer service
The impact of competition on business decision making
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EDEXCEL GCSE BUSINESS 1.5.2 TECHNOLOGY AND BUSINESS (COMPLETE LESSON) 152
This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a worksheet and covers:
Different types of technology used by business:
e-commerce
Social media
Digital communication
Payment systems
How technology influences business activity in terms of:
Sales
Costs
Marketing mix
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EDEXCEL GCSE BUSINESS 1.5.1 BUSINESS STAKEHOLDERS (COMPLETE LESSON) 151
This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a worksheet and covers:
Who business stakeholders are and their different objectives:
•Shareholders (owners), employees, customers, managers, suppliers, local community, pressure groups, the government
Stakeholders and businesses:
•How stakeholders are affected by business activity
•How stakeholders impact business activity
•Possible conflicts between stakeholder groups
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EDEXCEL GCSE BUSINESS 1.5.3 LEGISLATION AND BUSINESS (COMPLETE LESSON) 153
This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a worksheet and covers:
The purpose of legislation:
Principles of consumer law: quality and consumer rights
Principles of employment law: recruitment, pay, discrimination, and health and safety
The impact of legislation on businesses:
Cost
Consequences of meeting and not meeting these obligations
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This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a worksheet and covers:
The concept and calculation of:
Revenue
Fixed and variable costs
Total costs
Profit and loss
Interest
Break even level of output
Margin of safety
Interpretation of break even diagrams:
The impact of changes in revenue and costs
Break even level of output
Margin of safety
Profit and loss
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EDEXCEL GCSE BUSINESS 1.4.2 BUSINESS LOCATION (COMPLETE LESSON) 142
This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a worksheet and covers:
Factors influencing business location:
proximity to:
market
labour
materials
competitors
nature of the business activity
the impact of the internet on location decisions: e-commerce and/or fixed premises
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EDEXCEL GCSE BUSINESS 1.3.4 SOURCES OF BUSINESS FINANCE (COMPLETE LESSON) 134
This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a worksheet and covers:
Sources of finance for a start-up or established small business:
•Short-term sources: overdraft and trade credit
•Long-term sources: personal savings, venture capital, share capital, loans, retained profit and crowd funding
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EDEXCEL GCSE BUSINESS 1.3.1 BUSINESS AIMS AND OBJECTIVES (COMPLETE LESSONS) 131
This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a worksheet and covers:
What business aims and business objectives are
Business aims and objectives when starting up:
• Financial aims and objectives: survival, profit, sales, market share, financial security
• Non-financial aims and objectives: social objectives, personal satisfaction, challenge, independence and control
Why business aims and objectives differ between businesses
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EDEXCEL GCSE BUSINESS 1.4.3 THE MARKETING MIX (COMPLETE LESSON) 143
This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a worksheet and covers:
What the marketing mix is and the importance of each element:
● price, product, promotion, place.
How the elements of the marketing mix work together:
● balancing the marketing mix based on the competitive environment
● the impact of changing consumer needs on the marketing mix
● the impact of technology on the marketing mix: e-commerce, digital communication.
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EDEXCEL GCES BUSINESS 1.4.4 BUSINESS PLANS (COMPLETE LESSON) 144
This lesson includes a PowerPoint and a worksheet and covers:
The role and importance of a business plan:
● to identify: the business idea; business aims and
objectives; target market (market research); forecast
revenue, cost and profit; cash-flow forecast; sources of
finance; location; marketing mix.
The purpose of planning business activity:
● the role and importance of a business plan in minimising risk and obtaining finance.
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This lesson covers:
Organic growth
Increasing output, gaining new customers, developing new products, increasing market share
External growth
Mergers, takeovers – including horizontal and vertical, diversification
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This lesson covers:
The 4 Ps of marketing and their importance
Product
Design, invention, innovation
Product stages of the lifecycle
Introduction, growth, maturity, decline
Pricing methods
Skimming, cost-plus, penetration, competitor, promotional
Promotion – point of sale
Price reductions, loss leaders, competitions, free samples
Promotion - advertising
Social media, websites, print media, television, radio
Place – distribution of products and services
Digital and physical distribution channels
How the 4 Ps of the marketing mix work together
The use of the marketing mix to inform and implement business decisions
Interpretation of market data
Changes in demand
target market and market share
changes in product
effects of promotion
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This lesson covers:
To be able to discuss the purpose of marketing within business
The purpose of marketing within business
The importance to a business of identifying and understanding its customers, informing customers, increasing sales
This complete lesson is written by Sarah Hilton for Revisionstation
This lesson covers:
The impact of current legislation on recruitment and employment
Discrimination, employees’ right to contract, holidays, hours of work
This lesson was written by Sarah Hilton for Revisionstation
This lesson covers:
Different production processes and their impact on business
Job, batch, flow
The influence of technology on production and the impact on business
Automation, computers and robotics
This lesson was written by Sarah Hilton for Revisionstation