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Owen was a reporter for Bonhill Group plc writing across the Smallbusiness.co.uk and Growthbusiness.co.uk titles before moving on to be a Digital Technology reporter for the Express.co.uk.

Finding and selling to customers

A beginner’s guide to sales prospecting

For businesses to find success, they need to understand and actively hunt sales. In this article, Katie Deverill, operations manager at Company Check, offers some prospecting tips for businesses.

Small Business Insurance

The benefits of national insurance

Here, we look at the main benefits to paying National Insurance.

Marketing

Top tips for advocate marketing

Is your business making the most of its employees and customers to spread brand awareness? We delve into the world of advocate marketing.

Setting up a company

The seven-point checklist for setting up a business

Sarah Musgrove, editor in chief of Opus Energy, offers a seven-point checklist to help you in setting up a business. Ian and Gary from Raybon Putters also share how they got started.

Office & home working

Working from home? Self-regulation is the key to success

Working from home is growing fast across Europe and North America, but how should employees be managed that cannot be seen at their desks from 9 to 5? Can they be trusted to work just as hard as their colleagues at the office? These are among the dilemmas facing both workers and managers.

Employing & managing staff

The power of being nice in the workplace

Being nice in the workplace can be an undervalued quality, however a recent study from Monarch reveals that employing nice staff makes for both a happier and more productive workforce.

Business management

Top tips for business continuity – Preparing for the unexpected

Klaus Allion, managing director at ANT Telecom, automated communication specialists, discusses business continuity and the need for businesses to have a flexible and robust communications system to enable employees to work from any location.

Office & home working

Why a boring office might be uninspiring for your millennial employees

A fifth of millennial workers admit to rejecting a potential employer because of the poor look of their office.

Employing & managing staff

Bridging the gender pay gap in the UK

The Gender Pay Gap deadline for businesses (4th April) is approaching fast and according to recent news, less than a third of companies in the UK have revealed their gender pay gap data.

Advice

One year until Brexit: The top countries for working expats

With the countdown to Brexit just a year away (29th March), independent expat financial expert Forth Capital releases revealing statistics on the best countries for British expats.

Business management

Effective invoicing: Top tips for small businesses

In this post, Andrew Vear, Owner of Enterprise Badges, a global supplier of badge making machines and components, offers his top tips and advice on how to successfully invoice customers. Although it may seem daunting, invoicing really doesn’t have to be, and after reading this you’ll be set and confident in your invoicing.

Business Technology

British workers demand more automation

With technology becoming more of an integral part of a modern business, you wouldn't be surprised if employees worried of being replaced by a robot. But Brits actually want more automation in their business.

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