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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 get more from your digital strategy

Ben Garry explains how you can make this year your most effective marketing year yet and how technological changes will affect your business in the months to come.

Marketing

Business Technology

The IT systems that cost little but have a big impact

Here, Jeremy Hall from Puffin Solutions, gives us his top tips for utilising secure and efficient IT systems for your small business.

Export & Import

Essentials you need to make your business into a global success story

Here, we consider the essentials needed by any business planning to take this brave step into the global marketplace.

Small Business Insurance

How one small business approached essential insurance cover

Here, Steven Daniels talks about the insurance provision he put in place as a small business owner and the importance of the right cover.

Business management

Why the winter months can be hard on your employees

New survey reveals simple changes to the workplace are better at beating the Winter blues than traditional wellbeing benefits.

Employing & managing staff

How to motivate your team at the least productive time of the year

In this piece, we look at some of the biggest factors affecting productivity and mood, and offer you some effective solutions to beat the seasonal dip in team morale.

Export & Import

How to choose the right plastic containers for your product

It pays to take a little time and plan what type of packaging will be best suited for your product. Here are a few things to consider.

Employing & managing staff

Employers can help transform attitudes to mental health

Employers can help transform attitudes to mental health in the wake of Prime Minister’s announcement says Activ Absence.

Export & Import

How to choose the right plastic containers for your product

It pays to take a little time and plan what type of packaging will be best suited for your product. Here are a few things to consider.

Employing & managing staff

Employers can help transform attitudes to mental health

Employers can help transform attitudes to mental health in the wake of Prime Minister’s announcement says Activ Absence.

Business management

What is a strategic partnership?

In this piece, Carl Reader discusses the key factors that make for a good strategic partnership between two businesses.

Employing & managing staff

Should employees have the ‘right to disconnect’ from work?

Following legislation passed in France, Alan Price explores whether UK employees should be allowed to ignore work emails after hours.

Marketing

The value of corporate awards for small businesses

Here, Richard Ellis looks at the importance of employee awards and companies celebrating the achievements of their staff and departmental teams.

Business management

Security strategies for small businesses

Here are few benefits of employing effective safety systems for your small-scale organisation.

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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