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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.

Restaurant website: Things to do and things to avoid

How to create an effective and persuasive website to attract a higher number of visitors to your restaurant?

Getting Online

Office & home working

Why access control could help protect your business

Protecting your small business office and the contents within is paramount to all business owners. Here we look at why access control could be the way forward.

Productivity Zone

Can taking a long or adventurous holiday boost productivity?

Research has shown that SME owners aren’t taking the holiday they deserve and the average employee spends 19 days a year wishing they were on holiday, impacting on productivity.

Business Technology

How technology is set to change the face of job hunting

The times of lengthy and complicated recruitment drives are long gone thanks to increasingly sophisticated online options, argues Elaine Lewis of jobmagnet.

Business Technology

Solving the skills gap: Cultivating the future data analyst employee

We have all read about the dreaded IT skills gap that threatens to stifle innovation and growth. Recent research shows that children are now more likely to want to work in social media than traditional careers, leading to further concerns of shortages in STEM careers.

Business Technology

Small business fraud: Why you could be the victim

Seemingly unsophisticated phishing scams have now evolved to a much more dangerous level of highly sophisticated fraud. Here, Gary Kearns of Vocalink reveals why the threat is not to be ignored.

Legal advice

Can email disclaimers protect your organisation?

Here, we find out why you may require email disclaimers.

Marketing

Ten ways technology companies can use a content marketing strategy

In today's business landscape, every company needs to have a content marketing strategy. Here, we take a look at how to approach yours.

Legal advice

Can email disclaimers protect your organisation?

Here, we find out why you may require email disclaimers.

Marketing

Ten ways technology companies can use a content marketing strategy

In today's business landscape, every company needs to have a content marketing strategy. Here, we take a look at how to approach yours.

Business management

Leadership training and how it worked for owner-managers

Steve Kempster draws on the experiences and lessons learnt from an owner-manager leadership training programme.

Office & home working

Top ten office annoyances

The commercial property experts at LondonOffices.com have compiled a list of the top ten office annoyances that all employees should avoid if they don’t want to irritate fellow staff members in the workplace.

Employing & managing staff

Colour zones ‘key to boosting performance at work’, say experts

Dale Office Interiors spoke to a number of top colour psychologists and design consultants to find out how colour zones can affect productivity.

Legal advice

Legal agreements for businesses: Necessary insurance for growth?

In this article by Stevens & Bolton LLP, we explore how pragmatism at the start-up and scale-up phases of a business can you help to navigate waters that may later prove turbulent.

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