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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.

Helping small businesses in developing communities

Here's how brewing and beverage company SABMiller is thinking creatively to give opportunities to small businesses in all corners of the world.

Business management

Finding and selling to customers

How to sell your product in an economic slowdown

Andy Preston gives eight useful tips on improving your company's sales process.

Business management

Small businesses and managing stress: The holistic approach

Why it's beneficial to incorporate a stress management plan into your company's ethos.

Business Technology

Superfast broadband project: A legacy monopoly

XLN Telecom CEO Christian Nellemann examines whether the interests of small businesses are being lost in the increasingly complex national superfast broadband project.

Finding and selling to customers

How to make the best use of video for customer support

Matt Pierce of TechSmith discusses how small businesses can deploy video to enhance customer support initiatives.

Business management

Do entrepreneurs need a university education?

Entrepreneur Tina Boden explains why university is not necessary for those with entrepreneurial ambition.

Business Technology

What does an IPVPN mean for your business?

Presenting the benefits of uniting geographically-diverse sites through a reliable private network.

Business management

A small business guide to reputation management

A company's online reputation can take a long time to build up, but can be destroyed more or less instantly. Jasper Martens discusses how a business can properly represent itself on the internet.

Business Technology

What does an IPVPN mean for your business?

Presenting the benefits of uniting geographically-diverse sites through a reliable private network.

Business management

A small business guide to reputation management

A company's online reputation can take a long time to build up, but can be destroyed more or less instantly. Jasper Martens discusses how a business can properly represent itself on the internet.

Legal advice

Why it’s crucial to make sure you own your own logo

You might think you own your logo – but it is quite possible you don't. Intellectual property expert Rob White reveals why it is essential for the copyright for your logo to be assigned to your business.

Employing & managing staff

How to source the best staff and then retain them

Ensuring you have the right team in place is of crucial importance when establishing and growing your business. HR guru Beatrice Bartlay gives tips on employing and retaining staff.

Finding and selling to customers

Seven ways business networking is like online dating

Networking guru Rob Brown discusses how the lead generation process when networking bears a close resemblance to that of online dating.

Business management

Customers over growth revealed to be top survival technique

Looking after existing customers has been cited as the most popular reason for surviving during the recession, the Bank of Cyprus UK says.

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