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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.

The key to boosting staff morale can start with charity

Here, Simon Joyce, managing director of Anchor Vans, highlights the benefits charity and team bonding can give to staff morale.

Employing & managing staff

Finding and selling to customers

How a customer relations management system can help your business

Here, Amelia Bishop from Weenie Business Solutions, talks us through the benefits of properly planning a customer relations management system.

Finding and selling to customers

Five technologies helping B2B sales teams in UK SMEs

Here, Scott Sampson of NewVoiceMedia, discusses five challenges that B2B sales teams face and five technologies that solve them.

Finding and selling to customers

Five tools to boost your online sales

For businesses who have started to move their sales online, checkout these apps to help you boost your online sales.

Business Technology

SMEs are leading the way to the cloud

Here, Dirk Paessler, CEO of Paessler, analyses why small businesses are the early adopters of the cloud and how it is helping them.

Employing & managing staff

European countries putting the UK’s paternity leave to shame

New research compares the UK’s paternity leave and pay to other countries across the world and finds Britain wanting.

Business Technology

Impact of AI on the UK job market divides opinion

IT Directors disagree over whether Artificial Intelligence will create or displace jobs, according to new research.

Marketing

Top ten tips to mastering an email marketing campaign

Here, Tom Gottlieb, email marketing team leader at Wix.com, advises us on his top tips for running an email marketing campaign.

Business Technology

Impact of AI on the UK job market divides opinion

IT Directors disagree over whether Artificial Intelligence will create or displace jobs, according to new research.

Marketing

Top ten tips to mastering an email marketing campaign

Here, Tom Gottlieb, email marketing team leader at Wix.com, advises us on his top tips for running an email marketing campaign.

Business Technology

Innovation and paperless – digitisation of the workplace

As the legal sector moves to embrace digital with the adoption of paperless systems and virtual hearings, Chris Ronan, Chief Executive at St John’s Buildings, explores the benefits new methods of working can offer for businesses.

Employing & managing staff

Influencing health and wellness in the workplace

Here, Sophie Poole, head of graduate recruitment at Express Vending, guides us on maintaining employee health in your business.

Office & home working

The remotest chance: Onsite vs. offsite working

Here, Todd Carothers, executive vice president of sales and marketing at CounterPath, talks to us about the advantages of onsite vs offsite working.

Business Technology

The growing power of e-commerce among small businesses

Here, Rajesh Subramaniam, executive vice president of FedEx Services, tells us how small businesses can capitalise on e-commerce.

Partner content

What are the benefits of business broadband?

Business broadband offers a host of advantages over standard domestic connections, here’s why you should be considering an upgrade

Partner content

How should I select my business broadband provider?

As with any supplier, it’s important to do your research and ask important questions before you select a broadband provider for your business. But what are the must-have things you should take into consideration?

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.