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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.

Business legal requirements: Considerations for 2018

Here, Caroline Lavis, associate at Michelmores, looks at a few of the legal issues that UK SMEs should be considering in 2018.

Legal advice

Business management

Regaining control in 2018 – Top tips from organisational experts to revealed

Storage expert, Space Station has teamed up with a number of organisational experts to help people get more organised and regain control in 2018.

Employing & managing staff

The Great British pay rise: What do Brits think?

New research results from MoneyGuru show how the public really judge the issue of their pay rises.

Business management

Seven things small businesses can learn from the Carillion crisis

The collapse of the construction giant holds some useful lessons for SMEs, says Matt Dunham of Dunham Dean Advisory.

Finding and selling to customers

Ghosting: Lack of communication could lose your business customers

UK consumers are four times less likely to repeat-purchase from retailers ghosting them after a sale, research uncovers.

Legal advice

Is regulation a friend or foe?

Here, Bruce Penson, managing director at Pro Drive IT, explores how big data and GDPR presents both challenges and opportunities.

Finding and selling to customers

How to enhance sales productivity in your organisation

Sales managers can take several steps to ensure their teams remain focused and productive, as we discuss here.

Business Technology

What manufacturing can learn from agile software techniques

What if there were a way to speed up the manufacturing and hardware design process? Here, we find out.

Finding and selling to customers

How to enhance sales productivity in your organisation

Sales managers can take several steps to ensure their teams remain focused and productive, as we discuss here.

Business Technology

What manufacturing can learn from agile software techniques

What if there were a way to speed up the manufacturing and hardware design process? Here, we find out.

Business Technology

Are we really ready to trust in AI?

Peter Ruffley, chairman at Zizo, considers the importance of Digital Transformation (DX) and creating a data-driven culture to prepare businesses for an AI enabled world.

Employing & managing staff

The top ten worst excuses for absence

We have all pulled a sickie to get out of work for one reason or another, but what are the top ten excuses for absence?

Employing & managing staff

Can I refuse holiday requests from my employees?

I have had several requests from employees who all want off the same period of holidays in the summer - do I have to accept these requests or can I refuse my employees the holidays?

Business management

How small businesses can expand into the public sector

The public sector procurement system is daunting for many SMEs, but in this piece, Penny Godfrey of Millstream reveals how SMEs can make the process easier.

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