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 can SMEs keep up with innovative technology and changing employment laws?

SME owners need to adopt new techniques, continuing to invest time and energy into traditional ways of hiring.

Employing & managing staff

Export & Import

Choosing the right courier service to suit your business

Here, we look at the importance of making the right choice when it comes to selecting a company to deliver goods to your customers.

Marketing

Getting the right company logo: How businesses got their message across

Here, we talk to small businesses about their company logo and how their brand is represented through it.

Business Technology

Matthew Hancock must assure the future of UK tech post-Brexit

In this piece, William Newton discusses how Matthew Hancock must support growth outside of the South East as part of the much-delayed UK Digital Strategy.

Marketing

Does trade marketing increase sales?

In this article, we look at how a stronger integration with your supplier can result in increased sales.

Business management

Avoiding distractions as a small business owner

Distractions are productivity issues are a concern for employees, but company owners are only human too, as we reveal in this piece.

Business management

Outdated planning tools and processes hampering business

Companies that rely on legacy approaches to planning are potentially cutting their growth prospects and erasing their competitive advantage, research finds.

Employing & managing staff

Job sharing: The pros and cons for small businesses

Following the election of co-leaders of the Green Party, Alan Price looks at job sharing and whether it could work in your company.

Business management

Outdated planning tools and processes hampering business

Companies that rely on legacy approaches to planning are potentially cutting their growth prospects and erasing their competitive advantage, research finds.

Employing & managing staff