Running a Business

This section takes you through every important aspect of how to run a successful business. It offers expert guides and advice articles on the key elements of business management such as employing staff, finding customers, marketing and sales, pricing, people management, office and home working, business technology and everything else an entrepreneur must tackle in order to succeed.

How an employee’s use of drugs or alcohol can impact the workplace

Here, Danny Clarke of ELAS Group explains how an employee's use of drugs/alcohol outside the workplace can impact within.

Employing & managing staff

Marketing

Omnichannel: Where digital and physical retail collide

Here, Laith Murad, CMO of Lightspeed, talks about the future of e-commerce and the importance of omnichannel for small businesses in today’s industry.

Business Technology

Six simple steps to delivering a powerful presentation

Here, Steve Campion from Toastmasters International, gives his top six tips to giving a powerful presentation.

Employing & managing staff

Performance management in a 21st century business

This article looks at the performance management process, and the reasons organisations need to ditch outdated annual appraisals sooner rather than later.

Marketing

Living with Google: What you can and can’t get removed from search

Business owners need to get to know Google and understand it better, says Simon Wadsworth, managing partner at Igniyte.

Export & Import

How we are preparing our pet food business for Brexit

Here, Eddie Milbourne discusses what steps his pet food company Canagan is taking to prepare for Brexit.

Legal advice

What exactly is an intern? HMRC might take a different view!

In this piece, Karen Holden, founder of A City Law Firm, discusses why it's vital for business owners to determine whether a working relationship qualifies as an internship.

Finding and selling to customers

How one small business went from start-up to partnering with Tesco

Co-founder and CEO of Spoon Guru Markus Stripf discusses his journey from start-up to partnering with a retail giant in less than three years.

Legal advice

What exactly is an intern? HMRC might take a different view!

In this piece, Karen Holden, founder of A City Law Firm, discusses why it's vital for business owners to determine whether a working relationship qualifies as an internship.

Finding and selling to customers