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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.

Three top tips for relocating your business

Nikki Scrivener gives tips on making your office move a smooth one, based on experiences of relocating her own business.

Office & home working

Marketing

Five ways to make the most of billboard advertising this Christmas

When thousands of customers take to the streets of Britain to complete their Christmas shopping, the effectiveness of your billboard advertising will be particularly important.

Marketing

Five certain signs you need a marketing consultant

In this piece, we look at the benefits a marketing consultant can bring to your small business.

Business Technology

Three quarters of business owners rely on mobile or web applications

Some 71 per cent of UK small business owners rely on mobile or web-based applications to run their operations, eliminate administrative tasks and grow their business.

Employing & managing staff

Make sure you communicate salary sacrifice legislation to your staff

Employers need to communicate carefully the potential for changes to salary sacrifice legislation for all benefit annual enrolments that take place between now and December, an employee benefits provider advises.

Business management

Is having a mentor key to small business success?

Taking on a mentor, a business expert without a vested interest, can mean your business benefits from a fresh and objective point of view, argues Darren Clare.

Office & home working

How to create a more productive working environment as a small business

Kate Headley discusses how businesses can identify what adjustments need to be made to create a more productive working environment.

Legal advice

What to do when faced with a law suit for patent infringement

In this article, we look at what action you need to take when faced with the threat of legal action in a patent infringement claim.

Office & home working

How to create a more productive working environment as a small business

Kate Headley discusses how businesses can identify what adjustments need to be made to create a more productive working environment.

Legal advice

What to do when faced with a law suit for patent infringement

In this article, we look at what action you need to take when faced with the threat of legal action in a patent infringement claim.

Marketing

Four ways to make a bigger impact with your landing page

Here's how you can jazz up your landing page by following a few small pointers.

Business Technology

Ten ways call tracking can benefit your small business

Marketing campaigns live and die on leads and conversions - and while most businesses will think nothing of stocking up all sorts of website analytics packages as possible, measuring online leads is only one part of the puzzle.

Marketing

Five ways to influence fellow professionals using LinkedIn

LinkedIn continues to evolve in providing professionals with a way to market their product or service. Here's how to make the most of the site.

Office & home working

The advantages of using serviced offices in London

Here, we look at some of the benefits your small business can enjoy from taking advantage of the serviced offices in London.

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