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- Building a content-rich website
- It's no good having a great 'look and feel' to your site if it's just an empty shell, says web developer Donald Nelson.
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- Data risk assessment service launched
- Increased security threats have driven Pentura to release its new data risk assessment service.
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- 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.
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- Grant providers directory
- Links to the websites of various grant providers that take you straight to the relevant web page. Subdivided into categories.
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- Building customer relationships
- If cashflow is the lifeblood of your business then customers are the heart pumping it around. Know them, appreciate them, look after them.
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- Recruitment: asking the right questions
- You should ask mostly open questions at interviews says Suzanne Cameron, Senior Commercial Consultant at Carlton Resource Solutions, although closed questions, too, have their place.
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- Backing up data
- Better to be safe than sorry. You've been warned...
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- Fighting management's corner
- Executive recruitment firm Ellis Fairbank believes managers can buy their companies without necessarily having to turn to venture capital.
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- How I started... an online database of stolen goods
- One time hotelier and restaurateur Adrian Portlock tells BusinessWings about how starting his business was even more stressful than hospitality - yet still more enjoyable.
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- Preparing your franchise business plan
- How franchise buyers should write a business plan, by BFA-affiliated accountant Andrew Small.
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- How to avoid your own Datagate
- Ten tips on how to avoid a costly data breach, by ID theft expert Brian Lapidus.
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- How to improve your credit rating
- A decent credit rating is important when you are raising finance for a business start-up, purchase or expansion.
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- Conducting due dilligence
- After signing an agreement in principle, but before signing a binding contract, you need to conduct a comprehensive MOT - to use a motoring analogy - of the business.
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- Protecting yourself from spam
- Spam is the bane of all internet users; some of it always seems to find a way through. Here's some tips on how to keep it to a minimum.
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- 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.
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