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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.

A worker’s guide to office etiquette

Remembering to make your colleagues a drink, keeping the noise down in the office and being punctual are some of the most important pieces of office etiquette all staff need to know.

Employing & managing staff

Employing & managing staff

The Taylor Review: Now what for small businesses?

Steve Woods, UK spokesperson for Deputy, shares what companies need to do to prepare for labour market reforms.

Employing & managing staff

How you can keep both introverts and extroverts happy in the workplace

Sixty per cent of workers don’t think that their employers are catering for their individual needs, including managing introverts and extroverts.

Marketing

Exhibiting in Europe: A trader’s guide to European exhibitions

Greg Lennox, owner and managing director of RAL Display, offers four main considerations for businesses who are looking to exhibit and promote their products or services overseas.

Business Technology

Five ways new businesses can benefit from Artificial Intelligence

With technology becoming more and more advanced in modern businesses, companies need to catch up with the trends. Here are five ways Artificial Intelligence can benefit your business

Finding and selling to customers

Making e-commerce returns easier for customers

Here, we give a handful of tips to make e-commerce returns easier for customers, and reveal why this is an important consideration.

Business management

Why forming alliances is so important for your business

In this article, Simon Joyce, managing director, Anchor Vans explains how making alliances between competitors can help your business.

Business Technology

Transparency key to making consumers happy with data sharing

In the run-up to GDPR, new research from the DMA and Acxiom shows that people are increasing happy about the data sharing, but transparency is the key to taking this to the next level.

Business management

Why forming alliances is so important for your business

In this article, Simon Joyce, managing director, Anchor Vans explains how making alliances between competitors can help your business.

Business Technology

Transparency key to making consumers happy with data sharing

In the run-up to GDPR, new research from the DMA and Acxiom shows that people are increasing happy about the data sharing, but transparency is the key to taking this to the next level.

Employing & managing staff

Having a bad day? The most stressed workers in the UK revealed

Finance, local and national government, healthcare, education and hospitality rated the top five most stressful industries in the UK.

Business management

How to implement change successfully to your business travel

Here, Paul Casement is director of sales and account management at Clarity, explores what businesses can do to make business travel successful.

Marketing

Digital PR and the marketing mix: How to use PR for SEO success

In this piece, Jess Hawkes of Impression looks at how small businesses can make the most out of the digital marketing channels available.

Business Technology

UK’s top data centre hotspots for small businesses revealed

According to the 2017 collocation report, the UK is becoming the go-to location for data centres in Europe, with London leading as the most popular data centre hotspot in the country. We go through the top ten hotspot locations.

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