How to Use Bartering in Business
Bartering is one of the fastest-growing techniques used by new businesses. With barter, you can achieve huge savings on all your purchases, acquire needed items for your business with money…
How to Sell a Solution to a Problem or an Opportunity to Business
If you sell complex products to business, there is a right and a wrong way of going about it. Or, rather, there are some processes, evolved over time by professional…
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How to Plan Your Business
Once you have found a product or service you want to sell and have tested it thoroughly you are ready to begin planning your business. Building a business takes time,…
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How to Keep Customers Coming Back to Your Business
A long list of satisfied customers is the most valuable asset a business can have. You must be able to attract customers, keep them coming back, and have them refer…
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How to Hire the People Who Fit Your Business
Leadership is the skill of persuading people to co-operate willingly to achieve results. Managing people is a mixture of motivation and manipulation. So far so good. Unfortunately there is often…
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How to Get Technology Funding for Your Small Business
When venture capitalists hear the words 'high technology' they seldom reach for their cheque books in a hurry; it is a culture with which most of them have yet to…
How to Use Leaflet to Promote Your Business
Leaflets can be a very reasonable way of passing on your message to potential customers, particularly if those customers are the end users, and leaflets can be distributed directly into…
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How to Handle Business Relocation Old Industrial or Refurbished Premises
Particularly in the inner areas of our towns and cities there is a stock of Victorian and pre-First World War properties which are generally inexpensive but often uncomfortable. The building…
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How to Handle Misconduct Dismissals In Your Business
The law on unfair dismissal specifies that misconduct is a potentially fair reason for dismissal, but gives little or no guidance on the sort of behavior that may warrant dismissal…
How to Handle the Ten Reasons to Move Your Business Premises
Why move? There is a wide range of considerations which may encourage you to think about moving and to start looking round for alternative premises. Some firms move because they…
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How to Purchase Computers for Your Business
A PC or laptop is a must for your business. Even if you are not computer literate yourself (and it takes time to learn how to use a PC to…
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 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…
How to Get Advice for Business Start-Up
At one time anyone needing advice about starting a business was automatically referred to the three wise monkeys: the bank manager, solicitor and accountant. Any one of these may have…
How to Get Support from Government for Your Business
Considerable changes have taken place in government assistance to smaller firms in the past year, though the cynics may say that change is more apparent than real, amounting to more…
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How to Develop Growth Strategies for a Business
In running a small enterprise, time is the ever-present enemy. The owner-manager is the firm's major asset - using that asset to maximum advantage involves a planned and fully thought…
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How to Choose Business Premises for Shared-Service Workshops
The rationale behind this kind of provision is that survival rates among small firms could be considerably improved by making available on-site a range of business advisory, secretarial and other…