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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.

What to know when recruiting your first employee

Ian Cowley, managing director of cartridgesave.co.uk, discusses everything you need to know when taking on your first staff members.

Employing & managing staff

Employing & managing staff

How to manage smoke breaks at work

Many employers are feeling the wrath of non-smokers who object to their nicotine-addicted colleagues taking extra breaks to satisfy their habit during the working day.

Finding and selling to customers

How to master the art of upselling

Getting your customer interested in more than what's currently on the table is an important skill to have, says Phil Rothwell.

Business management

Helping small businesses in developing communities

Here's how brewing and beverage company SABMiller is thinking creatively to give opportunities to small businesses in all corners of the world.

Finding and selling to customers

How to sell your product in an economic slowdown

Andy Preston gives eight useful tips on improving your company's sales process.

Business management

Small businesses and managing stress: The holistic approach

Why it's beneficial to incorporate a stress management plan into your company's ethos.

Business Technology

Superfast broadband project: A legacy monopoly

XLN Telecom CEO Christian Nellemann examines whether the interests of small businesses are being lost in the increasingly complex national superfast broadband project.

Finding and selling to customers

How to make the best use of video for customer support

Matt Pierce of TechSmith discusses how small businesses can deploy video to enhance customer support initiatives.

Business Technology

Superfast broadband project: A legacy monopoly

XLN Telecom CEO Christian Nellemann examines whether the interests of small businesses are being lost in the increasingly complex national superfast broadband project.

Finding and selling to customers

How to make the best use of video for customer support

Matt Pierce of TechSmith discusses how small businesses can deploy video to enhance customer support initiatives.

Business management

Do entrepreneurs need a university education?

Entrepreneur Tina Boden explains why university is not necessary for those with entrepreneurial ambition.

Business Technology

What does an IPVPN mean for your business?

Presenting the benefits of uniting geographically-diverse sites through a reliable private network.

Business management

A small business guide to reputation management

A company's online reputation can take a long time to build up, but can be destroyed more or less instantly. Jasper Martens discusses how a business can properly represent itself on the internet.

Legal advice

Why it’s crucial to make sure you own your own logo

You might think you own your logo – but it is quite possible you don't. Intellectual property expert Rob White reveals why it is essential for the copyright for your logo to be assigned to your business.

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