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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.

Festive Cyber Tips for every business owner

Deon Hanekom, compliance manager at 9 Spokes gives us his top seven tips for protecting your business from cyber attack.

Business Technology

Employing & managing staff

How to battle start-up anxiety when competing for staff

Some business owners suffer 'start-up anxiety’ when candidates are deciding whether to join them or a more established company. Here, Alex Pavlou looks at how to beat it.

Business management

Five tips on keeping your small business running over Christmas

Here, Lewis Reeves shares five ways he keeps things ticking over at his data collection agency over Christmas.

Business management

Post-work pints: Transferrable skills for running a pub

Experience in the pub trade – or at least hospitality – is advisable for would-be publicans. Yet other careers do bestow some transferrable skills in this competitive sector, writes Melanie Luff of BusinessesForSale.com.

Business management

What are your new year’s resolutions for your small business?

In this piece, in association with Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), we look at the goals of a variety of smaller business owners for 2017.

Finding and selling to customers

The role that body language and tone plays in sales

Here are some helpful tips to help you manage your body language to help improve your overall sales performance.

Employing & managing staff

How to inspire your team

Here’s how to get the best from your workforce and increase productivity.

Marketing

How to nail conference season as a small business

Here, Ofri Ben Porat provides some top tips to nail the conference calendar and grow your small business in 2017.

Employing & managing staff

How to inspire your team

Here’s how to get the best from your workforce and increase productivity.

Marketing

How to nail conference season as a small business

Here, Ofri Ben Porat provides some top tips to nail the conference calendar and grow your small business in 2017.

Business Technology

How an SME can protect themselves from cyber attack

With the recent news of Yahoo suffering a severe breach of user details, 9 Spokes runs through how small businesses can protect themselves.

Marketing

Lessons learned from New Balance’s political crisis

In the latest in our monthly series looking at how to handle reputational crises, Jennifer Janson discusses what can be learned from American shoe manufacturer New Balance and its pro-Trump outburst.

Employing & managing staff

How team bonding in the Christmas buildup can increase productivity

In the workplace, preparing for Christmas can help bond a stronger team, improve productivity and motivate staff.

Business management

Three manufacturing trends to look for in 2017

Here, we look at what to expect from the manufacturing industry in the coming year.

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