Blue Monday and employee morale: moving beyond the gimmick
Blue Monday is often disregarded, but it can be helpful in improving your employees' morale throughout the year.
Business management
This section takes you through every important aspect of how to run a successful business. It offers expert guides and advice articles on the key elements of business management such as employing staff, finding customers, marketing and sales, pricing, people management, office and home working, business technology and everything else an entrepreneur must tackle in order to succeed.
Blue Monday is often disregarded, but it can be helpful in improving your employees' morale throughout the year.
Business management
Employing & managing staff
Pietro Carmignani, UK country manager at Gympass, provides some simple tips to empower staff and keep them engaged.
Marketing
Mull over the pros and cons of AI marketing tools and find out what platforms could work for your small business
Business Ideas & Planning
This guide offers practical advice on developing and writing a marketing plan using simple English
Marketing
Email marketing can be an immensely important driver of engagement and brand awareness for small businesses. Here Andrea Blair from Hallam Internet, takes you through a six-step email marketing checklist.
Marketing
Factors to consider include the number of recipients you need to mail out to, design customisation to match the brand, integrations, data migration and ease of use
Finding and selling to customers
Digital ad campaigns aren't just for big businesses. Here's why you should be considering it...
Export & Import
In this guide we’ll look at when and why commodity codes are used, what they look like, and how to find the right one for your needs.
Finding and selling to customers
Digital ad campaigns aren't just for big businesses. Here's why you should be considering it...
Export & Import
In this guide we’ll look at when and why commodity codes are used, what they look like, and how to find the right one for your needs.
Business Technology
Chatbots can make customer service more efficient, cost-effective and achieve better customer satisfaction.
Marketing
Jane Frost CBE, CEO of the Market Research Society, talks about how you can do useful market research, even on a tight budget.
Getting Online
Omer Shai of website builder Wix talks about the benefits of using free tools to develop your web presence
Export & Import
Import licences are needed for goods the Government does not want to come into Britain unmonitored. Find out whether what you’re importing needs an import licence
Partner content
Business broadband offers a host of advantages over standard domestic connections, here’s why you should be considering an upgrade
Partner content
As with any supplier, it’s important to do your research and ask important questions before you select a broadband provider for your business. But what are the must-have things you should take into consideration?
Business Technology
Landlines as we know them will be scrapped in 2027 – along with a raft of upcoming business changes. Here's how to ensure your communications set-up is fit for whatever the future brings
Business Loans
Everything you need to know on what small business loans are and what types of loan are available for your business.