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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.

What the Youth Contract could do for UK SMEs

Small businesses should look into what the Youth Contract could do for them.

Employing & managing staff

Finding and selling to customers

Consumers frustrated by payment card refusals

Nearly a third of the UK public have been inconvenienced in the last year by a retailer not taking payment cards.

Business Technology

Business Broadband vs Residential Broadband

As a business owner you may have wondered why you need to get an internet connection from a specialist business broadband provider.

Finding and selling to customers

Competing with the big boys

SmallBusiness.co.uk looks at how smaller companies can get ahead when faced with giant competition.

Marketing

Ethical SEO

Mark Blackhurst started SEO Next from a bedroom in 2009 and now turns over £1 million.

Employing & managing staff

What is the simplest way to employ staff on a casual basis?

I am a one-man consultant/product developer and currently have more work that I can cover. What is the simplest way that I can employ staff on a casual or part time basis to help out when required?

Marketing

How can I make my website easy to navigate?

I run a small business and am about to launch a new retail website. Can you give me some tips on making my website easy to navigate?

Employing & managing staff

Dress for success – smarten up your appearance at work

The job market is competitive at the moment so looking the part has never been more important.

Marketing

How can I make my website easy to navigate?

I run a small business and am about to launch a new retail website. Can you give me some tips on making my website easy to navigate?

Employing & managing staff

Dress for success – smarten up your appearance at work

The job market is competitive at the moment so looking the part has never been more important.

Business Technology

Continental SMEs more tech-minded

British small businesses place less of an emphasis on technology than their European counterparts, research finds.

Employing & managing staff

Equine-assisted coaching

SmallBusiness.co.uk explores why leadership programmes can be horses for courses.

Employing & managing staff

How to retain staff

SmallBusiness.co.uk looks at staff retention and how to keep hold of key talent.

Business management

To the tea – Adam Soliman of Charbrew

Twenty-three year old Adam Soliman launched high-end tea brand Charbrew in 2010 and is already expecting to turn over £500,000.

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