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Running a Business

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.

Mind the gap: What you need to know about liability insurance

In this piece, Ashley Singer discusses the insurance gap and what small businesses need to be aware of.

Small Business Insurance

Marketing

How to use sensory marketing to increase sales in retail

Engaging your customers five senses through sensory marketing could improve your retail profit.

Business Technology

Is AI capable of being a moral compass? Facebook’s anti-terror AI dreams are fantasy

Facebook has a responsibility to find a way to prevent and protect users from dangerous content, but do ideas for the use of ‘superhuman’ AI offer a realistic solution?

Marketing

A step-by-step guide to starting a WordPress blog

This comprehensive guide will help you create a WordPress blog without any technical expertise.

Marketing

Seven content types that will optimise your conversion rate

These content types are all things you've seen before, but have you ever thought about how you could leverage them for your own marketing campaigns?

Business management

The conscious guide to stress in the workplace

Neil Seligman discusses stress in the workplace and how to react to it.

Office & home working

The new workplace: watch this space

Here, Phil Sugden, sales and marketing director at Portal Group, tells us how to transform your office workspace.

Business Technology

Why technology should be every business owner’s best friend

Here, Tim Campbell, the first Apprentice winner, offers his tips on how technology and a bit of self-discipline can help you reduce stress, take back control, and grow your business.

Office & home working

The new workplace: watch this space

Here, Phil Sugden, sales and marketing director at Portal Group, tells us how to transform your office workspace.

Business Technology

Why technology should be every business owner’s best friend

Here, Tim Campbell, the first Apprentice winner, offers his tips on how technology and a bit of self-discipline can help you reduce stress, take back control, and grow your business.

Business Technology

What is digital transformation and what does it mean for SMEs?

What does the term 'digital transformation' mean and why should SMEs be getting on board? Here, Matt Hunt takes a look.

Business Technology

What small businesses should know about email archiving

Not everyone understands the importance of archiving important email communications. Here, we look into it.

Small Business Insurance

Almost two thirds of insurers and aggregators are neglecting mobile and tablet users

Dock9 studies digital insurance landscape, revealing AXA leads the way and Quantum needs improvement to cater to consumers.

Business Technology

Artificial intelligence: The secret sauce for small businesses

Sanj Bhayro discusses how artificial intelligence can give small businesses an advantage against larger players.

Partner content

What are the benefits of business broadband?

Business broadband offers a host of advantages over standard domestic connections, here’s why you should be considering an upgrade

Partner content

How should I select my business broadband provider?

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

Future-proof your business communications set-up

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

A guide to getting a small business loan

Everything you need to know on what small business loans are and what types of loan are available for your business.