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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.

Google’s mobile-first index: Seven myths dispelled

Here, we look at the most common myths heard around Google’s move to a mobile-first index, and address each in turn.

Marketing

Employing & managing staff

Employee advocacy and social media: Encouraging staff to sing your praises

Here, Ross Howard gives a brief guide to encouraging employee advocacy on social media.

Business Technology

Five of the best tools for digital marketing

In this article, Otto Peura describes five of what he considers to be some of the best tools to help your digital marketing.

Buying and selling a company

Esteemed glamping and camping site on the Outer Hebrides for sale

Here's a great business opportunity for someone who’s looking to trade in the rat race for country life.

Marketing

How to make the right connection for marketing success

In this piece in association with Vistaprint, SmallBusiness.co.uk looks at the many ways for small business owners to make a connection with the contacts that matter, from networking events to approaching other companies in your industry.

Employing & managing staff

Mind the gap – how the odds are still stacked against female entrepreneurs

Here, Pam Webber, chief marketing officer at 99designs, tells us the gap that sits between male and female entrepreneurs.

Employing & managing staff

The real cost of an unhealthy workplace on your employees

Investing in a healthy workplace proves cost effective for small businesses.

Export & Import

Top tips for trading overseas

Here, Rachel Mainwaring, operations director at Creditsafe, gives us her top tips for trading and exporting your business overseas.

Employing & managing staff

The real cost of an unhealthy workplace on your employees

Investing in a healthy workplace proves cost effective for small businesses.

Export & Import

Top tips for trading overseas

Here, Rachel Mainwaring, operations director at Creditsafe, gives us her top tips for trading and exporting your business overseas.

Business management

What your office design says about you as a leader

Here, we look at how you design your office space for your employees can shape you as a business leader.

Small Business Insurance

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.

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?

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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.

Partner content

What are the funding options for hospitality businesses?

Hospitality businesses have faced a number of challenges in the last couple of years. Find out what funding and support is available.

Employing & managing staff

The importance of vocational rehabilitation services for SMEs

In Aviva’s latest SME research*, 57 per cent of employers surveyed agreed that nowadays employees expect benefits to protect against loss of income or earnings. What do you offer your people?

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