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Six steps to franchising your business

Planning on franchising your business and looking for some ideas? If you have a proven business model that you think can be replicated across other locations, you could become a highly profitable franchisor. Here are six steps to successfully franchising your business. 1. Choose excellent franchisees Determine what kind of person you want to carry
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How to start a small food production business and succeed

Turning your passion project, be it cake making, vegan pizza or smoked hummus, into a sustainable and successful business isn’t easy. The Independent reported in 2017 that nine out of ten food and drink start-ups fail, but that shouldn’t diminish your hope of being the next big success story. If you can properly plan and
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Should you register as a sole trader or a limited company?

One of the most important decisions you’ll have to contend with is the structure and legal status your business will use moving forward: will you operate as a sole trader or as a limited company? The structure you choose can have an impact on almost every aspect of your business, including how much tax you
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Give your business that edge it needs for success

You have a lot to think about as a modern business owner, and there are so many things that might go wrong or cause issues when you’re trying to get your startup off the ground. That means thinking about what is involved in the process of running a company, and what’s necessary for success. Often,
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The fortune of failure:

Failure is a very difficult concept to come to terms with; if we fail then what good can we possibly have done? This is a common misconception around failure and easy to succumb to. It is easy to be shortsighted when facing failure, and only then have you truly failed. There is a fortune in
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The importance of web analytics in digital marketing

  Further reading on web analytics Google Analytics: What you need to know about online measurement Nominations are now open for the British Small Business Awards, the leading event celebrating the brightest stars in the SME sector. Click here to enter, and make sure you get involved today using the hashtag #BSBAwards. Good luck!
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Working from home? Self-regulation is the key to success

Working from home is growing fast across Europe and North America, but how should employees be managed that cannot be seen at their desks from 9 to 5? Can they be trusted to work just as hard as their colleagues at the office? These are among the dilemmas facing both workers and managers. New research
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With the rapidly evolving world of technology, it is easy to be convinced that every development (especially in digital marketing) is groundbreaking and unique – I know that sometimes I am guilty of this! I was reminded of this after an interesting conversation I had which covered topics from ID syncing, to data flows, segmentation
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Six tips for small businesses to master e-commerce

Retail growth is driven by e-commerce; it is expected that e-commerce will reach one fifth of the UK’s retail sales in 2018. Online businesses are facing a highly competitive market. In order to stay ahead and make sure that a new customer becomes a returning customer, businesses need to focus their efforts on customer support.
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Gardening website: Exploring a gap in the market

Here, we talk to gardening website guru Nicola Gammon, who started Shootgardening.co.uk with the intention of transforming the way we approach gardening. 1. When did you start the business, why, and what were you doing before this? Shoot aims to transforming the way we garden by helping everyone to be a successful gardener. Shoot is a membership-based
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