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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.

Why vouchers are a great idea for a small business

Here, we speak to three companies about their use of vouchers and how it benefited their business.

Finding and selling to customers

Business management

4 ways to keep calm in a crisis

Owning your own company can be a stressful business.

Office & home working

Work place injuries: what you need to know

In 2014/15 there were 76,000 injuries to employees reported, this is compared to 78,671 in the previous year.

Legal advice

The implications of drink driving and needing a licence for work 

Here, we give advice on the course of action to take if you get caught drink driving.

Employing & managing staff

Free mental healthcare screening advocated for the workplace

Some 60 per cent of people living with mental ill health agree that employers should offer free screening for depression in the workplace.

Business Technology

The Magento online store development process

Here, we consider important recommendations on how to develop an online store on the open source platform.

Marketing

How to improve your SEO efforts through blogging

Here, we look at three ways of enhancing SEO and online visibility for your business via a blog.

Business management

How businesses reduced energy costs and helped the planet

In this piece in association with the Federation of Small Businesses, we look at how installing energy efficient measures or making simple adjustments can help SMEs reduce their energy bills.

Marketing

How to improve your SEO efforts through blogging

Here, we look at three ways of enhancing SEO and online visibility for your business via a blog.

Business management

How businesses reduced energy costs and helped the planet

In this piece in association with the Federation of Small Businesses, we look at how installing energy efficient measures or making simple adjustments can help SMEs reduce their energy bills.

Business Technology

How three tech businesses came up with their idea

Here, in a piece in association with SAP, we look at the genesis of three companies; where the idea came from that formed the foundation of the business.

Finding and selling to customers

Sixteen customer service statistics for small businesses

Here, Tim Pickard discusses the ways in which to put your customers first as a small business.

Office & home working

Business premises: Do your research

If it's time to take your business up a level and move it out of the spare room and into a purpose-built office, it's important you get it right first time and find a space that suits both your needs and your budget.

Getting Online

Setting up their own website pays off for tradespeople

Tradespeople who have set up their own website pick up an additional 21 jobs a year than those without, research finds.

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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