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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.

How to improve your business continuity strategy in five steps

Here, we outline five steps that can take to improve your business continuity strategy and ensure it’s fit for purpose.

Business management

Marketing

Eleven steps to SMS marketing success for small business

Here, we explore how SMS marketing and mobile audience targeting can benefit small businesses.

Business management

Brexit and SMEs: Assessing opinion over the last six months

Here, Amelia Bishop details how Brexit will affect your business in the future, in both positive and negative ways.

Business management

Top tips for becoming an effective business leader

Fabio Torlini explores five elements that start-up entrepreneurs and business leaders should use as their guide to being a great leader.

Export & Import

Could Brexit boost international trade by enabling free trade zones in the UK?

Here, Robert Marchant, VAT partner and head of Corporate VAT at Crowe Clark Whitehill LLP, asks whether Brexit could allow the UK government to re-introduce Free Trade Zones as part of its aspirations to boost the UK’s international trade.

Employing & managing staff

Sorting the best applicants from the rest

When assessing applicants’ profiles, the ability to read between the lines is all-important. Here are our top tips for sorting the best from the rest.

Buying and selling a company

Popular restaurant and gin bar in Edinburgh for sale

This is your chance to purchase one of Edinburgh’s original Scottish fine dining restaurants.

Marketing

Lessons learned from… Uber’s #deleteuber crisis

In the latest in our monthly series ‘Lessons Learned’, Jennifer Janson looks at what businesses can learn from when Uber got political.

Buying and selling a company

Popular restaurant and gin bar in Edinburgh for sale

This is your chance to purchase one of Edinburgh’s original Scottish fine dining restaurants.

Marketing

Lessons learned from… Uber’s #deleteuber crisis

In the latest in our monthly series ‘Lessons Learned’, Jennifer Janson looks at what businesses can learn from when Uber got political.

Business management

Why your property could be your businesses most important asset

Here, Kamala Pradhan, marketing co-ordinator for MTX Contracts, look at the pros and cons of buying and leasing business property.

Finding and selling to customers

Why the high street isn’t dead

Here, Jonathan Loofe looks at how the high street and online retail can work together for small business success.

Business Technology

How investing in communications technology can help smaller businesses stay ahead of the curve

Here's how today’s modern communications tools have the power to bring real and lasting benefits to your company and help you punch above your weight to compete with big businesses.

Productivity Zone

The power of a tidy workplace and how it can help boost productivity

Our work space could also be the cause of our drop in productivity, as this article explores.

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Benefits of switching to the right business bank account

In case you were in any doubt, here are five key benefits of switching your business bank account – and how to make the switch.

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.

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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?