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Checklist before you sign a sales contract
The details you need to check before and after you sign the final contract in order to complete the sale of a business.
Negotiating the sales deal - buyer's perspective
The main points you need to consider when you are negotiating to buy a business.
Advantages and disadvantages of business budgeting
The benefits and potential drawbacks of budgeting for businesses.
Business security: cash
How to handle cash, cheques, and debit and credit card payments securely.
Recycling waste in your hotel
The benefits of recycling waste in your hotel, and consideration for starting a recycling scheme including which materials are suitable for recycling
Advantages of staff perks and incentive
Benefits of offering effective staff incentive schemes and perks for employers and employees
Material efficiency and reducing waste in your hotel
How to reduce waste and use materials more efficiently in areas across your hotel including procurement and office, bedroom, kitchen and cleaning consumables
Save water in your hotel
Use water more efficiently in your hotel in guest rooms, catering, laundry, swimming pools and grounds maintenance, investigate alternative water sources
Ten top tips for resource efficiency in your hotel
Easy-to-follow tips for improving energy, water and materials efficiency and reducing waste in your hotel, from controlling bedroom temperatures to recycling
Energy efficiency in your hotel
Save money, enhance your reputation and help the environment by making your hotel more energy efficient through best practice environmental techniques
Staff incentive schemes: the options
Weigh up your options for introducing staff incentive schemes in your workplace
Staff perks: the options
How staff perks enhance quality of working life and encourage employee loyalty
Ensuring the staff incentive scheme is successful
How to evaluate your staff incentive scheme and ensure it works effectively
Types of broadband connections
An overview of the most common types of broadband connections, and the options available to your business.
Broadband security and your business
An overview of the threats to your broadband, and the steps you can take to reduce the risks to your business.
Grow your business through franchising
Find out how to grow your business through a franchise operation, and use franchise agreements to prevent common problems.
Intellectual property health check
Find out how you can use the IPO's free IP Health Check tool to help protect your intellectual property assets.
Non-financial factors for investment appraisal
Taking into account the broader non-financial factors of a potential investment.
Running your business checklist
You're running a business and want to accelerate your sales and growth, so what steps do you need to take and what help is available? Use our support to get ahead and find out how other local entrepreneurs have made the transition.
Using home broadband for business
Difference between business broadband and home broadband, and advantages of using home broadband for your business.