Start a Business Guides

Business Tips

Page 2 of 7 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

7 Reasons to Consider Franchising
Buying a franchise is a little like buying the rights to distribute a particular product or service from an established provider. Franchising is a rapidly growing industry and its popularity is because of several distinct advantages: [October 29, 2009]

Top business tips for riding the recession
Here are some top tips to help business owners successfully manage their businesses in this difficult economical climate, and be ready for the upturn when it comes. [October 23, 2009]

Brilliant or bankrupt? How to work out if your business idea is viable
Those people who make a big success of their business are the ones who understand how to analyse an idea for its potential, and then execute it in a way to generate maximum profit. To work out if your idea is brilliant or will bankrupt you, there are four key questions to ask before you get started. [October 21, 2009]

Managing changes to your business - Top Tips
Five proactive ways bosses can manage business changes to help them cope with the current downturn. [October 12, 2009]

How to position your business against your competitors
Do you want to be an “also-ran” – or have a chance to dominate your market? Here is Bytestart’s guide to positioning your business against your competitors. [October 5, 2009]

How to pick the perfect franchise for you
Just as it’s possible to start the wrong kind of business, you can buy the wrong kind of franchise. There are nearly 800 franchise opportunities in the UK. Here’s how to pick the perfect one for you. [September 30, 2009]

How to be the king of creative communication
With millions of sites offering hundreds of thousands of products and services, the web can be a scary place to do business. Here are 10 ways to take your eCommerce content to new levels. [September 23, 2009]

The low down on starting a franchise
If you are running a successful business, the prospect of replicating that success throughout the country, with a team of crack managers at the helm can seem very attractive, but franchising is hard work, and lots of planning is required to ensure it is a success. [September 16, 2009]

How to put a pension scheme in place for your employees
Many bosses offer their staff a company pension as an employment benefit. However to offer this benefit, employers are required to comply with certain obligations. Some tips to help you navigate your way around pensions for your employees [September 15, 2009]

3 ways to cut business costs overnight
It’s easy to cut business costs overnight when you look at the three main cost areas of your business: your day-to-day costs, your staff costs, and the cost of raw materials. [September 1, 2009]

How to get a proper holiday (even if you're a one man band)
As hard as it is to do, even a couple of days off can bring immense benefits to both you personally and your business. A change may be as good as a rest, but you can’t beat totally switching off for a few days. [August 24, 2009]

10 reasons for losing a business pitch
A business expert provides his 10 key reasons why pitches go wrong and the important lessons to learn from these. Critically, do you pass the “so what” test? [August 20, 2009]

How to build a business working just one day a week
It is possible to create a business that will thrive despite you – the business owner - working in it for just one day a week. [August 17, 2009]

Successful pitching and winning business during a recession
If you want to increase your chance of winning the business, you must to adopt the key skills of the most successful presenters and lose the behaviours associated with the worst. [July 31, 2009]

Guide to how the product design process works
If you have an idea for a product you wish to take to market, you will at some stage need to use the services of a product designer. In this guide, we look at the key considerations you need to be aware of in the product design process. [July 27, 2009]

10 business email mistakes you should avoid
Some tips on what small business owners should try to avoid when composing email correspondence, based on the experiences of the Bytestart team and the thousands of emails they have read over the past 5 years. [July 2, 2009]

Seasonal recruitment tips for small businesses
As summer approaches, small business owners need to ensure that they have experienced staff in place to cover their business needs over the peak holiday period. [June 29, 2009]

7 tasks to help ensure your business prospers during the downturn
Times are tough for most small businesses. Confidence is low and consumers and businesses alike are thinking twice before making purchases. Here are 7 tasks you can carry out to help ensure your business survives and prospers over the next year. [May 21, 2009]

7 clever copywriting secrets for business owners
The ability to passionately sell a product or service in the written word is something that will never go out of fashion. And the reality is that few people will be able to do it as well for your business as you. [May 11, 2009]

Which businesses do well during downturns?
Despite the damaging effects of the economic downturn, there are plenty of examples of businesses who are surviving and even thriving. So what kind of business can see turnover go up in a downturn? [May 8, 2009]

Page 2 of 7 1 2 3 4 5 6 7