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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.

A brief overview of affiliate marketing

Here, we take a look at a brief overview of affiliate marketing and how this can help your business thrive in the modern world.

Marketing

Business Technology

Are you ready to invest in your own software developers?

Here, Nick Thompson, managing director, DCSL Software, suggests looking more closely at the challenges businesses may face with software developers.

Employing & managing staff

How to invest in staff from abroad in your business

Here, Motin Miah, owner of Bangkok Lounge Group, discusses how investing in staff from abroad can boost your business.

Legal advice

When poor performance becomes a legal issue: what do you do?

Here, Asif Robbani, LLB(Hons) LLM, director of Francis George Solicitor Advocate, discusses the legal issues of poor performance at work.

Employing & managing staff

The key to boosting staff morale can start with charity

Here, Simon Joyce, managing director of Anchor Vans, highlights the benefits charity and team bonding can give to staff morale.

Finding and selling to customers

How a customer relations management system can help your business

Here, Amelia Bishop from Weenie Business Solutions, talks us through the benefits of properly planning a customer relations management system.

Finding and selling to customers

Five technologies helping B2B sales teams in UK SMEs

Here, Scott Sampson of NewVoiceMedia, discusses five challenges that B2B sales teams face and five technologies that solve them.

Finding and selling to customers

Five tools to boost your online sales

For businesses who have started to move their sales online, checkout these apps to help you boost your online sales.

Finding and selling to customers

Five technologies helping B2B sales teams in UK SMEs

Here, Scott Sampson of NewVoiceMedia, discusses five challenges that B2B sales teams face and five technologies that solve them.

Finding and selling to customers

Five tools to boost your online sales

For businesses who have started to move their sales online, checkout these apps to help you boost your online sales.

Business Technology

SMEs are leading the way to the cloud

Here, Dirk Paessler, CEO of Paessler, analyses why small businesses are the early adopters of the cloud and how it is helping them.

Employing & managing staff

European countries putting the UK’s paternity leave to shame

New research compares the UK’s paternity leave and pay to other countries across the world and finds Britain wanting.

Business Technology

Impact of AI on the UK job market divides opinion

IT Directors disagree over whether Artificial Intelligence will create or displace jobs, according to new research.

Marketing

Top ten tips to mastering an email marketing campaign

Here, Tom Gottlieb, email marketing team leader at Wix.com, advises us on his top tips for running an email marketing campaign.

Business Technology

Future-proof your business communications set-up

Landlines as we know them will be scrapped in 2027 – along with a raft of upcoming business changes. Here's how to ensure your communications set-up is fit for whatever the future brings

Business Loans

A guide to getting a small business loan

Everything you need to know on what small business loans are and what types of loan are available for your business.

Business Technology

Friendly guide – top tips for small businesses switching to VoIP

With the landline shutdown coming fast, there’s never been a better time to switch to VoIP. Don’t let your small business be left behind!

Export & Import

Avoid delays with exports and imports

Many factors can affect products’ journeys from A to B. Here are some tips for best practice for successful shipping in the modern world