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How to Prune Your Garden
THE BASICS Having a good understanding of why pruning and training are necessary is a major step towards success. What are the aims and objects? Pruning is carried out: to…
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How to Recruit Employee in Small Business
The first person you employ is often a friend or a member of the family. How do you set about finding someone you do not know, and selecting the right…
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How to Spot Out Potential Franchisees
Franchisees come from a wide variety of backgrounds and range from university graduates to those who left school at the earliest opportunity. What unites them is the idea of running…
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How to Set Up a Limited Company
Many small businesses choose to set themselves up as a limited company. The big advantage of this method of trading is that your business liability is limited to the business,…
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How to Set Up a Small Business
The first thing anyone needs before setting up any kind of business is an idea, or perhaps more precisely the idea of starting in business at all. It sometimes happens…
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How to Set Up Your Business as a Sole Trader
If you are a one-person business, perhaps working from home, probably the best method of trading is as a sole trader. You do not need to register with any official…
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How to Keep Equipment in Good Working Order in Your Workshop
It is essential to keep tools sharp and properly set - often they will be even better than new if well cared for. Having sharp tools means they will perform…
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How to Order from Abroad
To import sounds more daunting than it actually is. You are merely buying from an overseas supplier instead of a home supplier, and the difference is all to do with…
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How to Narrow Down Marketing Dimension to Price in the Small Firm
Almost any discussion with managers of smaller firms about buyers, customer relations or any facet of marketing will sooner or later get round to the problem of price. It is…
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How to Plan Your First Garden – The Immediate Priorities
Carrying out alterations and improvements takes time and can involve considerable expense. So the most practical approach is to isolate any immediate problems, which obviously cannot wait, and deal with…
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How to Plan the Future for Your Business
How many people would start a long car journey without a route map? How many would build a house extension without drawings and a detailed estimate of costs? Running a…
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How to Plant Larger Trees and Shrubs in Beds, Borders and Grass
The plants Always buy container-raised shrubs and conifers of under 90 cm (3 ft) in height. Larger plants make greater initial impact, but they are more difficult to establish and…
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How to Plan a Campaign for an Organization
Campaigning is becoming increasingly popular as a method of raising an organization's profile and building a positive image. Plan your campaign carefully, launch it in a blaze of publicity, and…
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How to Pay Salary to Your Employee in Small Business
The amount of gross pay, plus overtime rates if applicable, will have been agreed between you at the interview/job offer stage. It is also useful to agree at that early…
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How to Master The Three Basic Stages of Combat
There are three basic stages of combat that need to be defined: pre-conflict, immediate conflict and post-conflict. They form the process that is undergone when faced with any form of…
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How to Open and Manage a Bank Account for New Business
For business owners, having separate business and personal banking accounts is essential to better manage their finances. A new business needs to have its own banking account, and arrangements should be made…
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How to Obtain Payment Earlier for Small Business
Keeping sales ledger debtors to a minimum is vitally important to the expansion, and sometimes even the survival, of small firms. Streamlining the method of raising invoices will, by itself,…
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How to Mulch a Garden
A mulch is a layer of bulky organic matter, such as well rotted garden compost or manure. It is spread on the surface of the soil around plants, mainly during…
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How to Manure Soils in Your Garden
Plant growth, whether flowers, vegetables, fruits, shrubs or trees, depends almost as much on the soil as it does on the climate. While there is nothing much that can be…
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How to Manage Furniture and Equipment in Your Office
Furniture You can manage with very little purpose-built furniture to start with, but you should try to keep all your business documentation separate from your general household paperwork, if you…