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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 simple employee engagement can make all the difference in a small business

Entrepreneur Jonathan Richards gives some simple and cheap tips to looking after your staff that little bit better.

Employing & managing staff

Business management

Expanding your horizons as a business – going international 

In the first of a two-part piece on looking international as a small company Ed Molyneux, co-founder of accounting system business FreeAgent, discusses taking his product to America.

Finding and selling to customers

How small businesses can access the data they need to become international

SmallBusiness.co.uk looks at the increasing need for companies to assess more accurately the viability of customers and suppliers.

Business Technology

Questions small businesses should ask about cloud computing – cloud applications, support and security

Last time on SmallBusiness.co.uk, we introduced the concept of cloud computing for new business owners. Here are some of the questions you should ask cloud providers about their service.

Business Technology

Business IT security threatened by the use of inferior passwords 

One in five British businesses use ‘password’ as their password despite more than 70 per cent ranking IT security as vital for their work, according to new research.

Employing & managing staff

Shared parental leave for small businesses – the legal view

Three advisers and a business owner give their opinion on the proposed shared parental leave initiative.

Employing & managing staff

Small business owners lukewarm on RTI implementation

The introduction of real-time information reporting could prove to be a time-consuming nuisance, small business owners fear.

Legal advice

Small business legal advice – How to get the most out of your lawyer

Dealing with lawyers can be a daunting task when starting out in business. Riverview Law offers small businesses some advice on how to navigate the legal terrain.

Employing & managing staff

Small business owners lukewarm on RTI implementation

The introduction of real-time information reporting could prove to be a time-consuming nuisance, small business owners fear.

Legal advice

Small business legal advice – How to get the most out of your lawyer

Dealing with lawyers can be a daunting task when starting out in business. Riverview Law offers small businesses some advice on how to navigate the legal terrain.

Office & home working

Temperature in the workplace – what businesses should know

Workplace health and safety expert Karl Young explains the legalities of office working conditions, giving you recourse for when an employee complains about the temperature.

Employing & managing staff

How to get your small business ready for RTI

Ann Stainer of Carbon Accountancy reveals everything the small business owner needs to know about getting ready for Real Time Information.

Legal advice

Why small businesses should be mindful of discrimination law

Beth Brierley, of Riverview Solicitors, explains how small business owners should navigate the Equality Act.

Legal advice

Essential employment law advice for small businesses in 2013

Adrian Hoggarth, head of employment law at City law firm Prolegal discusses the employment legislation for owner-managers to be aware of this year.

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Employing & managing staff

The importance of vocational rehabilitation services for SMEs

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What are the benefits of business broadband?

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