All "competitors" articles
- Keeping both eyes on the competition
- A guide to keeping abreast of what your customers are doing and, most importantly - what they're doing better.
- See more in: competition, competitors, marketing, prices, research, market research, guides
- Perception and reality: the brand-building guide
- A small-business guide to how various businesses establish - or fail to establish - a reputation in line with customer experience.
- See more in: brand, branding, advertising, marketing, Body Shop, Nike, Stella Artois, analysis
- Conducting market research
- To conquer your market you must first understand it, as explained in this guide...
- See more in: market research, marketing, customers, analysis, guides
- Preparing your franchise business plan
- How franchise buyers should write a business plan, by BFA-affiliated accountant Andrew Small.
- See more in: franchising, buy a franchise, business plans, marketing, guides
- Sam Walton
- It sounded the death-knell for town centre diversity – but now we can get Buy-One-Get-One-Free Monster Munch multipacks. Wahey! Meet the man who made discount shopping a reality...
- See more in: Sam Walton, Wal-Mart, budget, discount retail, retail, profiles
- Getting banks to say 'yes'
- Banks like to lend money – but only if you convince them that you can be trusted to pay them back.
- See more in: finance, funding, loans, banks, security, business plans, buy a franchise, buy a business, start a business, startups, guides
- Get noticed on Google, says web expert
- Get your website high on Google or miss out on an unprecedented online shopping spree this Christmas, says web expert.
- See more in: search engine optimisation, SEO, internet, online, e-commerce, e-tail, guides
- Top 10 tips for start-ups
- Advice on starting a small business from the MD of freeindex.co.uk.
- See more in: start a business, start-ups, tips
- Getting your website high on internet searches
- The equivalent of getting your shop on the high street instead of a back alley in the middle of nowhere, getting your website high on internet search engines can make the world of difference to your website - and your business as a whole.
- See more in: websites, SEO, search engines, internet, online, IT, guides
- Estee Lauder
- Long before Gwyneth Paltrow or Elizabeth Hurley became the faces of Estee Lauder, that famous cosmetics brand was actually someone's name...
- See more in: Estee Lauder, cosmetics, beauty, businesswomen, women in business, profiles
- Bill Gates
- Accused of ruthlessly stifling the merest germination of competition in the software industry, who'd have thought that the world's richest man would take pity on life's unfortunates?
- See more in: Bill Gates, IT, computing, microsoft, software, philanthropy, profiles
- The dos and don’ts of business plans
- The author of this article and partner at Lewis Hymanson Small, Graham Small often gives advice to start-up entrepreneurs about obtaining funding.
- See more in: business plans, startups, start a business, buy a business, finance, funding, banks, loans, guides
- Know your market
- A series of workshops are being held at the British Library Business and IP Centre in London in the second half of 2007.
- See more in: seminars, market research, British Library, Yellow Pages, workshops, news
- The secrets of success
- Two economic experts have published their findings as to why some businesses have been run more successfully than others.
- See more in: LSE, London School of Economics, Body Shop, Last FM, Webvan, Dos and don'ts, BT Business, guides
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