How to build your business
Andrew Walsh, founder of AW Repair Group, explains why you need to invest in your branding – even if you're a small business
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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.
Andrew Walsh, founder of AW Repair Group, explains why you need to invest in your branding – even if you're a small business
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Brij Thankey, CEO of Precision FM, explains how taking focus away from the numbers and putting it on his team has benefited his business
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Precision FM's CEO, Brij Thankey, talks about how values of a small business – like flexibility and patience – are helpful to every business
Smart Energy GB
Most small business owners take a forensic approach to cost-counting, so why leave business energy expenditure to chance?
Business management
I am self employed. Can I claim my childcare cost of part of it and offset it as part of my expenses?
Legal advice
Many small businesses think if they just ignore the EU’s GDPR regulations, they will just go away. Lawyer Chris Cook warns SMEs they face crippling fines if they do nothing
Business management
Funding Options explain how your small business can become more environmentally friendly and how to fund those sustainability goals
Legal advice
Simon Robinson, managing partner of RobinsonRalph, gives an overview of the basics to help you avoid paying any unnecessary compensation and explains the basis for claims of unfair dismissal.
Business management
Funding Options explain how your small business can become more environmentally friendly and how to fund those sustainability goals
Legal advice
Simon Robinson, managing partner of RobinsonRalph, gives an overview of the basics to help you avoid paying any unnecessary compensation and explains the basis for claims of unfair dismissal.
Legal advice
Is it possible to make changes to our company sickness policy? Peter Done of HR consultancy Peninsula answers the question
Legal advice
Two members of staff had an argument. One left the premises and I asked her not to return. She sent me a text threatening me with 'people to sort me out'. Can I dismiss her?
Running a Business
Small businesses are having to close because of staff shortages caused by staff being pinged by the NHS Covid-19 app. Can you ask employees to come to work even if they’ve been pinged?
Marketing
Jay Ripton explains why, even though social media has exploded over the past decade, email marketing is still worth your time and money
Business Loans
Everything you need to know on what small business loans are and what types of loan are available for your business.
Partner content
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
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
Business broadband offers a host of advantages over standard domestic connections, here’s why you should be considering an upgrade