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Writing A Report

This book provides insightful advice on how to write a report, including tips on report research, report presentation and writing techniques, as well as usin...
The Event Manager’s Bible

This book will help you to research, plan, organise, manage and deliver any event, match, show, tournament or function that will be attended by more than a h...
How to Buy and Run a Small Hotel

This book provides excellent advice on buying and running a hotel, covering topics such as writing a business proposal, raising capital and managing the star...
How to Run a Successful Pub

This book offers advice on running a public house, including exhibiting the right image and tips on providing a good pub dining experience...
How To Get Free Publicity

‘Is there something here that’s new, free or amazing?’ That’s how journalists often judge news stories. This book, which is all about...
Starting a Sandwich - Coffee Bar

This book covers all aspects of how to set up and run your own coffee and sandwich business, from planning and creating your own identity, to hiring staff, s...
Mastering Book-Keeping

This book covers all apects of learning business accounting and accountancy, explaining financial accounts, profit and loss, depreciation, accounting rules, ...
100 Ways To Make Your Business A Success

This book provides an insight into the methods of building a successful business, covering a wide range of topics such as funding business, generating new bu...
Conflict Management in the Workplace

Without realising it, we can become stuck in how we view things. The first way we look at something is not always the only or 'best' way. The more ways we ca...
Make Your Mission Statement Work

This book provides information on the elements of writing a good mission statement, including business values and culture...
Starting a Business in the Country

This book takes an in-depth look at starting a rural business and the related start-up costs. The book also offers advice on rural advertising, working from ...
Starting and Running a Catering Business

This comprehensive guide provides a wide range of information, including writing a business plan, running a business & retaining customers. In-depth advice i...
Starting Your Own Business

This book covers all aspects of starting a business, such as the initial start-up costs, writing a business plan and marketing your business, as well as the ...
Starting and Running a B and B

This book provides indepth advice in starting and running a small bed and breakfast business in the hospitality industry, including help with conducting a fe...
Raising Finance for Your Business

This book provides advice on funding a business, getting a business loand, as well as looking at the lending market and sources of finance...
Putting Heads on Beds

This book provides indepth advice on hotel management, including creating a marketing plan, identifying the hotel customer, using promotional material, as we...
Presenting with Power

Talks about presentations and shares the secrets that professional speakers use to make an impact and a memorable impression on their audience. This book giv...
Buying a Business and Making it Work

This book offers information on business acqusition, valuation techniques and conducting due diligence...
Turning A Business Around

This book provides comprehensive advice on business recovery, including understanding your business structure and setting a strategy for recovery...
Organising A Conference

This book provides sound advice on the management, planning and costs involoved in organising a conference event, in addition to arranging a conference speak...
Turn Your Business Into The Next Global Brand

This book provides advice on starting a franchise, including how to prepare franchising agreements and a guide to business franchises...
Brilliant Business Connections

This book provides advice on the art of communicating with prospective business contacts & suggests networking tips to build effective business relations... ...
50 Cautionary Tales for Managers

This book provides management tips on how to be a good manager, providing examples on where different management styles and effective leadership skills are a...
The Kitchen Table Entrepreneur

This book provides valuable advice on the intial stages of starting a business, covering issues such as conducting market research and writing a business pla...
Start and Run Your Own Business

This book gives in-depth guidance on starting and running a business, tips on preparing and managing accounts, as well as ways on raising business finance ar...
Book-keeping and Accounting for the Small Business

This book provides is a useful source of advice for managing accounts & choosing accounts software, as well as information on double entry bookkeeping, doubl...
How to Start Your Own Gardening Business

This book provides in-depth advice on starting a business in the gardening industry, including writing a gardening business plan, financing the business and ...
Raising Start-Up Finance

This book provides advice on the different ways of building capital, detailing the many sources of finance, such as business grants and business loans, as we...
How to Make a Fortune on the Internet

This book provides advice on making money online, encompassing techniques such as internet advertising and affiliate marketing, as well as offering tips on b...
A Practical Guide to Research Methods

This book provides a comprehensive guide to the best research methods, including qualitative and quantitative research techniques. The book also offers advic...
How to Be a Motivational Manager

This book provides advice on motivating employees, including theories on how to motivate staff, delivering constructive employee feedback and improving emplo...
Setting Up a Complementary Health Practice

This book offers essential advice on setting up a health practice business, including information on working from home, the start up costs involved, marketin...
Selling Your Business for All It's Worth

This book provides techniques on calculating business worth, grooming a business for sale, selling a business and the sale process.
Preparing a Winning Business Plan

This book provides a full guide to writing a business plan, explaining what a business plan is, why you need one and how it should relate to your business id...
How To Start and Run Your Own Restaurant

This book covers all apects involved in opening a successful restaurant from financing, marketing, designing and equipping to creating the menu, choosing sta...
How to Grow Your Small Business Rapidly Online

This book provides in-depth advice on how to take your small business online, including internet marketing strategies and conducting market research online.
Making Management Simple

This book provides essential advice on effective management, including how to manage and motivate staff, in addition to dealing with change management and re...
85 Ways to Market Your Small Business

This intuitive book provides tips on small business marketing & effective marketing strategy. The book also explores ways to increase website traffic and mea...
Getting Free Publicity

This book offers key advice on how to get free publicity, providing information on free public relations, writing a press release, as well as tips in adverti...
Setting Up and Running a Limited Company

This book covers all apects of how to start a business, from writing a business plan and choosing a company name to running a business and dealing with compa...
Starting Your Own Childminding Business

This book offers a detailed guide into starting a daycare business, including the regulations, start-ups costs, running the business and complying with regul...
Doing Business in The Middle East

Learn how to effectively do business in the Middle East
Writing a Business Plan

Matthew Record shows you how to write a winning business plan.
Seliing Your Business (Article)

Selling your business? Learn more about how to go about it & how to get the best price in this article.
Opening a Restaurant (Article)

Thinking about opening your own restaurant? Find out more in this How To article
Starting Your Own Childminding Business (Article)

Learn more about starting your own childminding business in this How To article
Gaining Advantage through Competitor Analysis

Competitor analysis is one of the most important things you can do as a small business. Find out how it can work for you.
Motivating Employees

Motivating employees is one of the hardest jobs of a business leader, but one of the most important. Read this article for some helpful advice.
How To Delegate

Delegation is one of the workeplace's most important skills. Read this article for some invaluable advice on how to do it effectively.
Starting & Running a Greetings Card Business

Lots of prectical advice to help you build an exciting and profitable business
How to Be a Successful Life Coach

A practical guide to setting up a profitable coaching business.
Start and Run a Sandwich and Coffee Shop

A handy guide for anyone considering opening their own sandwich and coffee shop business
How to Start and Run a Petsitting Business

A step by step guide to setting up a successful enterprise in this rapidly expanding market
Writing a Business Plan

This book takes you through step by step, how to write a business plan
Starting and Running a Coaching Business

A guide to starting your own coaching business, helping you to become your own boss
Wake Up and Smell The Profit

Make more money from your coffee business. Maximise your profits with this handy guide
Start and Run a Business from Home

A well written guide explaining in great depth the do's and dont's of starting up a successful business at home...
Just Six Guests

A handy guide for anyone thinking about starting a bed and breakfast. First hand, encouraging advice!
Start And Run a Successful Cleaning Business
Mastering Book Keeping
Finance for Small Businesses

Article explaining about Equity, Loans and Grants for your small business
Raising Business Finance

This article explains finding buisness investment and how to go about it
Self Certified Mortgages

Explaining about self-certified mortgages and how to obtain one
Small Business Finance

How to get business finance through a bank
Internet Consultancy

A handy guide to unlocking the potential of your web venture
Online Business Advice

Maximise the success of your online business with this guide to the strategies and resources that will work for you.
SEO Consultancy

Learn more about promoting your website and enhancing your sites performance in search engine results
Advice For Small Businesses

Running a small business? This article helps you to find the advice and support you need to make your business work for you
Business Start-Up Advice

Find out more about starting your own business, including information about writing a business plan and financial forecasting
Small Business Insurance

A handy article for small business owners, helping you to arrange the insurance you need for security and stability within your business
Small Business Consultancy

This article helps you to arrange the consultancy you need to grow your small business and choose a firm who will best suit your needs
Small Business Advice

Where to go to get the advice you need for your small business.
Small Business Loans

Advice on getting a loan for your small business
Small Business Tax Advice

Essential reading for any small business owner concerned about tax.
A Practical Guide to Mentoring

This book explains how to help others achieve their goals
How To Run a Great Hotel

A guide to success as a hotelier and srtategically planning the future of your hotel business.
Work From Home

Essential advice on how to make money working from home and get the most out of life.
You're On!

Teaching you how to develop great media skills for TV, Radio and the Internet
Marketing Your Complementary Therapy Practice

101 tried and tested ways to attract and retain clients
Developing Mental Toughness

A truly valuable resource on how to develop mental toughness for improved business performance.
Starting and Running a Catering Business

This book provides an essential guide for anyone thinking about starting or already running their own catering business. If you are serious about going...
How to Write a CV that Really Works

A comprehensive guide to writing a CV that will get you that job
Start and Run a Fish and Chip Shop or Burger Bar

This book takes you through the steps to starting and running a Fish and Chip shop or Burger Bar
Killer Presentations

With this handy giude to getting the most out of PowerPoint, you'll never be at a loss as to how best to make presentations again.
How to Start and Run a Gift Shop

In depth tips and advice on starting and running a successful gift shop.
Coaching Skills for Leaders in the Workplace

An extensive, well written guide on how to develop. motivate and get the best out of your staff.
A Guide To Good Business Communication

This book guides you through successfully communicating your thoughts and ideas in a business context, helping you to gain an understanding of the key differ...
Start and Run a Delicatessen

A guide to starting and running your own delicatessen
Start and Run a Shop

A guide to sucessfully starting and running a retail business
The Small Business Start-Up Workbook

A comprehensive guide giving tips and advice on how to start up a new business
How To Sell Your Business For The Price You Want

A handy guide to selling your business and getting the best deal available to you.
The Marketing Toolkit

Bite sized wisdom, perfect for people who would rather be succeeding, not reading
Raising Finance

Learn about the commercial and financial criteria on which proposals for sourcing investment are assessed.
The Event Manager's Bible (3rd Edition)

The complete guide to planning and organising a voluntary or public event
Leadership & Team Building

Improve your leadership skills with this free article on effective training and executive coaching
Creating a Sign Template

Making a good sign is not as easy as it may seem. Following this process will make sure your sign is as clear as possible.
Strategic Destinations in Project Management

Project planning is a lot more than just a list of simple tasks. It should be visionary and proactive.
Top Tips for Selling Your Business

Selling your business isn't as easy as it sounds, but there are things you can do to help ensure a successful, and profitable sale.
How to Plan an Effective Meeting

Proper planning is essential for the success of any meeting. Learn the important principles of meeting planning in this article.
How to Run an Effective Meeting

Chairing a meeting is an important skill, and the success of a meeting is dependant on effective management. Learn more in this article.
How to Choose a PPC Search Engine

Google is often the default choice for a PPC campaign, but it might be that you get better results elsewhere.
How To Create Inbound Links To Your Website

One way links are SEO gold dust for most webmasters, but there are a few simple ways to obtain them with simple hard work.
How To Convert To A Paperless Office

Starting on the road to a paperless office is a lot harder than maintaining it, but definitely something worth doing.
10 Tips for Small Business Entrepreneurs in Spain

To run a small business in Spain it's helpful to know a few things about how things are done out there. Here are 10 tips to get you started.
Cameron, the Big Society and Opportunities for Investors

The Coalition Government have launched their Big Society concept. The question for investors is, what opportunities might arise from this initiative?
How to Write an Agenda

Agendas can make or break meetings, and there are good practices to be followed when writing them.
How to Boost Creativity – and Success – in the Workplace

In-house massages and singing may not sound like the path to success, but you might be surprised at what a little creativity in the workplace can do.
How to Take Minutes of a Meeting

Taking minutes is part of the process of managing meetings. In fact, after the Chair, the minute-taker is the most important person in any meeting.
How to Run a Brainstorming Session

Brainstorming is a structured process for generating new ideas. It is one of the most useful processes used in business, but ground rules are necessary.
How to Write an Effective Email

The words of an email can never convey all the tacit meaning conveyed by tone of voice, gesture, facial expression or body language. These ten top tips will help you produce effective emails.
How to Ask 'How to'

'How to' is a simple yet powerful technique for unsticking your thinking. It's very simple, but very effective. Learn how in this article.
How to Start a Business the "Write" Way

Who, what, where, when and why are the "Five W's of Journalism" but they apply just as much to business...
How to... Clear Your Desk

Constantly finding yourself buried under a piles of paperwork? This article can help you become more efficient when cleaning your desk.
How to Overcome Workplace Bullying

Short of quitting, it can be difficult to know what to do about workplace bullying. Here are 5 key strategies for dealing with it.
How to boost your small businesses’ profitability with a Virtual Receptionist

As a business owner your time is precious. You need to focus on driving your business forward and maximising sales, while all the while trying to juggle all of the other tasks associated with running a company.
Improving business efficiency with conference calls

Hosting a conference call can be one of the best and most efficient ways of going about your daily business needs

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