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 to create a concrete financial contingency plan

Here, we take a look at how you can create a concrete financial contingency plan that works for your business.

Business management

Business Technology

Technology trends to help you with e-commerce sales

Here, we take a look at what technology trends will impact on ecommerce sales and how you can take advantage.

Office & home working

Five ways to make your business more sustainable

Here, we look at five ways that you can make your business more energy efficient and sustainable.

Legal advice

What is the SFO process and how can you defend accusations

Here, Aziz Rahman, Senior Partner at Rahman Ravelli provides a step by step guide helping to inform small businesses on what the SFO processes are and how they can defend themselves from serious accusations.

Business Technology

How to rescue a failed software project

Here, Nick Thompson, managing director of DCSL Software, guides you through how to rescue a failed software project, and what lessons it can teach you.

Marketing

Marketing strategies for small businesses

Every business, whether it is big or small requires a marketing strategy that is built around the core values of the business.

Business management

Start-up mistakes: The errors to learn from when launching a business

Jon Ostler, CEO of personal finance comparison website finder.com/uk, discusses some of the common small business mistakes he has witnessed over the years.

Employing & managing staff

Employee perks: The PR power of benefits for a small business

Here, Richard Stewart, founder of Untangl.co.uk, explores how small businesses are beginning to innovate when it comes to employee perks.

Business management

Start-up mistakes: The errors to learn from when launching a business

Jon Ostler, CEO of personal finance comparison website finder.com/uk, discusses some of the common small business mistakes he has witnessed over the years.

Employing & managing staff

Employee perks: The PR power of benefits for a small business

Here, Richard Stewart, founder of Untangl.co.uk, explores how small businesses are beginning to innovate when it comes to employee perks.

Office & home working

Guide to finding your first office space

Experts from LondonOffices.com have compiled a guide to helping small businesses find their first office space.

Marketing

Save The Web; most of Brits now associate ads with fake news

New research finds that British consumers are far more likely to associate ads with fake news when compared to their European or American counterparts.

Business Technology