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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.

Rethinking the recruitment chasm

Lee Wade looks at how SMEs can successfully achieve scale by developing a new approach to recruitment.

Employing & managing staff

Office & home working

Ways to motivate employees and keep them happy

Here, David Price gives some tips on keeping your staff engaged.

Business Technology

Life before the cloud for small companies

Being on board with cloud options means your company need not look small. Andy Hinxman presents some other benefits.

Legal advice

Consumer law issues you need to know as a small business owner

Consumers have significant rights, and companies need to be aware of them. Here, Guy Wilmot explores the most important issues to be clued up on.

Business Technology

Making the right business broadband choice

Here, we look at the things to consider when purchasing broadband packages.

Buying and selling a company

Dealing with existing staff in an acquired business

I am about to acquire a second business which already has existing employees. What do I need to be aware of in terms of HR procedures and inheriting the policies of existing staff?

Finding and selling to customers

How important is it to enter industry awards?

Ed Reeves discusses what can be gained from entering awards as a small business.

Marketing

Small business video advice from content marketers

Garth Haley speaks to four content marketing experts on the benefits of using video content for small companies.

Finding and selling to customers

How important is it to enter industry awards?

Ed Reeves discusses what can be gained from entering awards as a small business.

Marketing

Small business video advice from content marketers

Garth Haley speaks to four content marketing experts on the benefits of using video content for small companies.

Employing & managing staff

What to do when you discover you have hired a bad apple

Here, Melanie Astbury looks at the prevention and cure strategies for company hires that misfire.

Business management

Top five tips for effective time management

Don't be a busy fool - make sure you and your business are performing efficiently, urges David Lewis.

Export & Import

How can small businesses efficiently expand into new territories?

Andrew Millard discusses the increasingly globalised business world and how small companies can prepare themselves for international trade.

Business Technology

Have you turned your business into a software company?

Here, Michael Wood presents his viewpoint that all small enterprises should aim to be software companies.

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