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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.

Seven essentials for creating an unbeatable mobile ERP strategy

Here are seven essential points to help your small business utilise mobile ERP.

Business Technology

Legal advice

Time to face the music: the duty to report ushers in a new era for late payments

Dafydd Llewellyn, managing director of UK SMB, Concur, talks us through how the new Payment Practices and Performance regulations 2017 will affect small business suppliers.

Business management

Stress busting tips for small business owners

Here, we offer advice on how to recognise the first signs of stress, and explore solutions to make life more efficient for business owners.

Employing & managing staff

What employers need to know about changes to benefits in kind

Helena Smith outlines everything businesses need to know about the changes to benefits in kind provided through a salary sacrifice scheme.

Employing & managing staff

What SMEs can learn when comparing the military to civilian workplaces

There’s a pool of thousands of job-seeking individuals whose potential remains relatively untapped by employers – ex-military personnel, argues Stuart Tootal.

Business management

Are your line managers prepared to manage inter-office conflicts?

CIPD report finds that half of company line managers are not trained or qualified to handle ‘difficult conversations’ or conflicts.

Business management

The leather goods entrepreneur: Expanding in the face of challenge

William Forshaw discusses the challenges of growing his leather goods company, from navigating Google algorithm changes to bouncing back from laying off staff.

Marketing

Is print advertisement for small businesses dead?

With the surge in consumer demand for communication and advertising online, does this spell the death of print advertising?

Business management

The leather goods entrepreneur: Expanding in the face of challenge

William Forshaw discusses the challenges of growing his leather goods company, from navigating Google algorithm changes to bouncing back from laying off staff.

Marketing

Is print advertisement for small businesses dead?

With the surge in consumer demand for communication and advertising online, does this spell the death of print advertising?

Marketing

Tips for using images on social media to promote your small business

Social media can be an extremely powerful tool for small businesses to get access to their audience, here is how you can use images to boost exposure.

Business Technology

Using cloud servers for data storage

With cloud data storage getting more and more intuitive and secure, small businesses need to learn to take advantage the new storage system.

Office & home working

Is an office Spring clean a necessity?

Messy desk dwellers can rejoice, as Yell Business finds most business owners keep their desk extremely cluttered and still make a profit with their business!

Legal advice

How do I deal with theft in the workplace?

Often seen as a victimless crime, workplace theft can impact businesses of all sizes and is believed to cost the UK economy more than £193 billion per year.

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