How to Build the Retail Business of Your Dreams
One of the interesting things that happens when you become a freelance or set up your own business is that other people frequently confide in you their version of the…
How to Build Satisfactory Relationship with Customers
If building a business involves building satisfactory relationships with customers, then one of the best ways, not to say most obvious, of doing this is simply to keep your promises.…
How to Analyse Your Business Competitors
If you have a lot of competitors you may have to choose a few key ones to analyse. There are many sources of competitive information. You should obtain your competitors'…
How to Allocate Enough Space for Home Business
For many people, working from home is a lifestyle thing. Gone are the rush-hour traffic jams and missed buses and trains. Instead you only have to wander through to the…
How to Devise an Interview Plan
Draw one up in collaboration with your colleagues before any interviews are conducted with shortlisted candidates. Having a skeletal plan in front of you at an interview reminds you to…
How to Conclude an Interview
Once you have covered the topics and questions highlighted in your interview plan, you should be coming towards the end of the time set aside for the interview. With perhaps…
How to Choose Between External or Internal Recruitment
Recruiting from among your current workforce offers many advantages. Seeing your employees at work on a day-to-day basis will enable you to evaluate their particular strengths and weaknesses accurately and…
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…
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How to Keep Records for a Small Business
Some recent research into the causes of bankruptcy among small firms shows that, while poor sales, bad initial choice of site, misguided spending and sheer bad luck were all factors…
How to Maximize Your Autoresponder
When you get yourself geared up for an Internet marketing business, one of the most difficult tasks you may encounter is managing your time effectively alongside your other daily tasks.…
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How to Use Telephone Smart for Your Small Business
Cash flow is a major factor in the daily life of every small businessman, and rising bankruptcy and liquidation rates have emphasized its importance. However, ideas for actually speeding up…
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How to Write a Small Business Plan
While luck naturally plays its part, the main reason for the success of a business is that it has developed a sound strategy and persisted in implementing it, a course…
How to Write Your Business Letters, Faxes and Emails Correctly
It is very important for your image to send letters, faxes and emails which are correctly typed and spelled and look good on the page. Try to address your communication…
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How to Understand Business Expansion Scheme
Persuading the owner of the smaller business that taking in an outside shareholder could be beneficial to the financial stability of the company has always been difficult, but if the…
How to Understand Franchising for the Future
The launch of the British Franchise Association (BFA) was the single most important event in the history of franchising in this country. Despite relatively modest resources, the BFA has steadily…
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How to Understand Loan Guarantee Scheme
Much to the surprise of many observers of the small business finance scene, the government's often criticised Loan Guarantee Scheme was given a new lease of life in the 1986…
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How to Understand Marketing in Small Firm
Recently, the clarion call has gone out for more aggressive, more rigorous, more sustained, or simply more marketing by Britain's small firms. Improved marketing, particularly by smaller manufacturers, is central…
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How to Understand Products and Planning in Small Business
The firm's product or process lies at the centre of most small firm managers' thinking about their companies. The ability to make some item well, to offer a special service…
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How to Understand The Basics of Maternity Rights in Business
When a female employee becomes pregnant, who is left 'holdin the baby'? The small business pressure groups would no doubt say, because of the rights for expectant mothers contained in…
How to Understand the Government’s Help on Smaller Businesses
The government has made much of the help it has given to small businesses, not least in the area of employment law. Two of the most significant changes here concern…