Your Small Business: How to Create, Run and Maintain Your Own Business

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Buying an Existing Business: Do's and Don'ts

One of the fastest ways of starting your own business is to buy and existing enterprise. Thousands of businesses go up for sale every year through commercial...

Creating a Brand for Your Business

We all know what brands are and how powerful they can be in the marketplace, but at first glance a brand can seem like an intangible and unquantifiable entit...

How to Fire an Employee

Part of being an owner of a small business is dismissing an employee when this becomes unavoidable Dismissing a member of staff is never an easy task, but yo...

Leasing or Buying Equipment

Small businesses have a finite amount of money to spend on plant and machinery that is required to operate the enterprise. Buying an asset such as a computer...

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Franchising Vs Small Business Opportunities

The decision to open a business is one of the biggest choices a person can make in their lifetime. The risks are many, and they go far beyond the great finan...

How Employee Engagement Can Boost Profits

Employee engagement is an underused business strategy. A report from the consultants BlessingWhite states that less than a third of employees engage with the...

How Small Businesses Deal With Commercial Disputes

Running a successful business can be challenging at the best of times – and these are definitely not the best of times. One of the many repercussions of th...

Getting Funding for Your Small Business, London: Case Studies

If you've got the idea and the burning desire to set up your own business, but don't have the cash to support the entrepreneurial spirit, you might be lookin...

How Our Company Rode Out the Recession: A Case Study

Brett Alegre-Wood is the founder and MD of Your Property Club, a property investment company that specialises in educating beginner property investors. Your...

Top Ten Tips for Starting a New Business: Interview With Brad Rosser

When 1 in 4 businesses fail in their 1st year, and only 20 per cent make it through to year six, some good practical advice is needed. It's true, there are l...

Is a UK Patent Protected in the European Union?

UK Patents A patent is used to protect a new process or way of doing something. Once a process is patent-protected no one else can use it without the patent...

How to Get Paid Faster, FAQ

Late payment is still a clear and present danger for all small business’s cashflow. According to BACS the value of late payments across the UK is now over...

Interview With Emma Jones, Running a Home Based Business

Emma Jones is Founder of Enterprise Nation the premier home business website and author of ‘Spare Room Start Up – how to start a business from home’. A...

Interview: Karl Mckeever, Brand Director

Karl McKeever, brand director of the UK’s leading visual merchandising and brand delivery consultancy, Visual Thinking, has worked with top high-street ret...

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