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Whenever your business sells a product or provides a service, you need to provide an invoice. Invoices not only inform the customer how much they need to pay, but also give you and your customers a record of the tax related to that sale. There is certain information that you ...

Home working (also known as telecommuting) is becoming increasingly popular. In recent years there has been a large growth in the number of small businesses operating from home. Large companies, particularly in the IT sector, are also now entering into telecommuting arrangements with individual employees to allow them ...

If you are one of the many hundreds of thousands of small businesses that decided to sign up to the social networking website Twitter in the past year, the chances are that you probably tweeted once or twice and then gave up. If this is the case, you are ...

Sound like a joke? It’s not! It's the Pomodoro Technique. I love my job; unfortunately I also love making tea, choosing a song on iTunes, checking facebook and I compulsively check emails and can’t leave an email without replying. For me, focus is essential to make the most of my ...

If you are currently working in a 9 to 5 job and are considering starting your own business, it can be extremely daunting to decide what type is the best for you. Unless you already have a specific passion for something in particular it is difficult to identify your ...

E-mail is a great business tool and has gradually become absolutely essential for most of us over the last fifteen years. However, it is a huge time sink and can have a negative effect on your productivity. If you are finding that it eats away at your work ...

Advertising is an expensive necessity for small businesses. When faced with financial hardship, the advertising budget is often the first cut that a small business owner will make. The main problem with this method of saving money is that it will really hurt them in the long run ...

If you are struggling with the workload involved in the day-to-day running of your business it will eventually have a negative effect on your performance. Many small business owners find that they are getting bogged down with time consuming administrative tasks and are no longer actually achieving anything worthwhile. ...

Recessions are often said to be the time when entrepreneurs are able to truly shine. The turbulent economy will frequently offer opportunities that would otherwise be out of reach for most people. However, many small businesses are having a hard time during the current economic downturn. The first thing ...

Twitter appears to be creating a social media storm, but it divides opinion massively; you either love it, or you hate it. Last week The Telegraph reported that the Social Media platform, Twitter, is growing at an incredible pace; with Twitter users sending 50 millions tweets per day, which averages ...