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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 Facebook Live can be a powerful marketing tool for small businesses

As a business owner, embracing live video may seem daunting but Facebook Live presents a big opportunity for SMEs, argues Chris Holmes.

Marketing

Business management

British SMEs overspending by 24 per cent on energy bills

Not switching their gas supplier is costing small businesses considerably, research finds.

Finding and selling to customers

Why SMEs should consider spend control

Daniel Ball at Wax Digital asks why businesses aren’t considering controlling their spending and managing supplier contracts in order to reduce costs.

Business management

Five things you need to know before scaling your business

Alex Strien offers five tips on scaling up for businesses with designs on growth.

Business Technology

The best ways to ensure your company’s data safety

The best way to avoid hackers and ensure your company’s data safety is by taking appropriate safety measures, as this article reveals.

Business Technology

Don’t let the app data gap stop effective upselling

In this piece, Richard Fenton explores personalisation technology and the impact it can have on e-commerce businesses.

Business Technology

Does my fledgling retailer need an online marketplace to survive?

Here, Andrew Metcalfe, chief technology officer at Ve Interactive, discusses whether SMEs with big brand ambitions can survive without an online marketplace.

Business Technology

Cyber security: What small businesses need to know

Here, Shaun McKay, managing director of LeadingEdge, discusses how businesses can improve their cyber security.

Business Technology

Does my fledgling retailer need an online marketplace to survive?

Here, Andrew Metcalfe, chief technology officer at Ve Interactive, discusses whether SMEs with big brand ambitions can survive without an online marketplace.

Business Technology

Cyber security: What small businesses need to know

Here, Shaun McKay, managing director of LeadingEdge, discusses how businesses can improve their cyber security.

Export & Import

Why businesses should explore markets outside Europe

In this piece, James Marchant looks at some opportunities small businesses should consider in markets outside of Europe.

Employing & managing staff

What can employers or HR do about office relationships?

Associate Director of advisory at Peninsula UK, Kate Palmer, tells us how to deal with office relationships.

Finding and selling to customers

Three ways to reduce chargebacks

As consumers smoothly adopt online transactions, Stephen Hart from Cardswitcher, highlights the problems that card transactions can pose.

Marketing

The lessons your business can learn from the world’s best logos

Designing a fresh logo for your brand? It's no walk in the park. Take inspiration and learn lesson from some of the best brands in the business.

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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