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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.

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 management

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.

Legal advice

Are law firms ready for disruption?

Research found that three quarters of law firms see a data breach or cyberattack as the biggest threat- effecting revenue loss and inaccessible or lost data, as well as a reputational impact.

Business management

Fifteen ways to remain productive at work

Standing meetings, regular breaks and experimenting with different noise levels should maximise productivity in the workplace say LondonOffices.com. They have compiled a list of fifteen new tips to encourage workers to ditch their bad habits and up their work game.

Legal advice

Are law firms ready for disruption?

Research found that three quarters of law firms see a data breach or cyberattack as the biggest threat- effecting revenue loss and inaccessible or lost data, as well as a reputational impact.

Business management

Fifteen ways to remain productive at work

Standing meetings, regular breaks and experimenting with different noise levels should maximise productivity in the workplace say LondonOffices.com. They have compiled a list of fifteen new tips to encourage workers to ditch their bad habits and up their work game.

Business Technology

Create an ‘innovation culture’ and turbocharge R&D results

In this piece, we talk about how businesses can improve the way they go about innovation and R&D to improve success rates and returns on investment.

Business Technology

Bitcoin boom: British businesses spreading cryptocurrency risk

More than half of companies with a ready stock of Bitcoin have sold off some of their supply to profit from soaring valuations in the cryptocurrency market.

Business management

Practice zero risk forex and CFDs trading with a no deposit bonus

Needless to say, there is a stiff competition among the forex brokers right now. While many of the newbie traders are often looking to start forex trading, very few are ready to risk their money.

Business Technology

Three ways to improve your company’s innovation performance

Here, Ultimaker chief technology officer and co-founder, Siert Wijnia, outlines exactly how businesses can improve their innovation performance.

Partner content

Benefits of switching to the right business bank account

In case you were in any doubt, here are five key benefits of switching your business bank account – and how to make the switch.

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?