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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.

How to rebuild your small business after a reputation blow

Claire Wilson discusses how to recover from a bad reputation and rebuild your small business’ image through a solid content strategy.

Business management

Employing & managing staff

How SMEs can break down recruitment barriers and lead a talent revolution

Rebekah Wallis reveals how confusing job descriptions are preventing young job seekers from entering the workforce, and what can be done.

Employing & managing staff

How to motivate employees on temporary contracts

Jacqui Glenn considers the challenges employers face when it comes to motivating employees on temporary contracts.

Getting Online

Seven ways to monetise your website that will pay off

Phil Coleman shares seven of the most effective, tried and tested website monetisation tips for your business.

Marketing

Five mistakes affiliate marketers make with their new business

How quickly your affiliate business grows and how much you earn all depends on you, as Phil Coleman explains.

Marketing

What living in an on-demand society means for small business tech

Dean Withey discusses best practice tips for mobile messaging campaigns that small businesses need to follow.

Marketing

Six tips to small business success in SMS marketing

Matthew Winters explores how your small business can use SMS marketing to its advantage.

Business Technology

Seven essentials for creating an unbeatable mobile ERP strategy

Here are seven essential points to help your small business utilise mobile ERP.

Marketing

Six tips to small business success in SMS marketing

Matthew Winters explores how your small business can use SMS marketing to its advantage.

Business Technology

Seven essentials for creating an unbeatable mobile ERP strategy

Here are seven essential points to help your small business utilise mobile ERP.

Legal advice

Time to face the music: the duty to report ushers in a new era for late payments

Dafydd Llewellyn, managing director of UK SMB, Concur, talks us through how the new Payment Practices and Performance regulations 2017 will affect small business suppliers.

Business management

Stress busting tips for small business owners

Here, we offer advice on how to recognise the first signs of stress, and explore solutions to make life more efficient for business owners.

Employing & managing staff

What employers need to know about changes to benefits in kind

Helena Smith outlines everything businesses need to know about the changes to benefits in kind provided through a salary sacrifice scheme.

Employing & managing staff

What SMEs can learn when comparing the military to civilian workplaces

There’s a pool of thousands of job-seeking individuals whose potential remains relatively untapped by employers – ex-military personnel, argues Stuart Tootal.

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.

Partner content

What are the funding options for hospitality businesses?

Hospitality businesses have faced a number of challenges in the last couple of years. Find out what funding and support is available.

Employing & managing staff

The importance of vocational rehabilitation services for SMEs

In Aviva’s latest SME research*, 57 per cent of employers surveyed agreed that nowadays employees expect benefits to protect against loss of income or earnings. What do you offer your people?

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