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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.

Progressive SMEs pioneer best-practice collaboration

Here we take a look at how small businesses and their owners can embrace the opportunity to become truly technologically collaborative in the 21st century.

Business Technology

Business management

Why I let my team decide my salary…and theirs

Paulina Sygulska discusses the 'open culture' ethos of her business and how it meant unusual but effective decisions could be made on remuneration.

Business management

How businesses can benefit from reverse mentoring

Alan Price discusses why sometimes it's valuable for more mature employees to learn from the millennials.

Business management

Start-ups that are transforming traditional business

Here are three of the most original UK start-ups, which have used technology and exceptional consumer know-how to transform a conventional service into something quite genius.

Marketing

Six marketing skills every business needs

There are six key marketing skills every modern business needs and now is the time to ensure your employees possess them.

Finding and selling to customers

Put your worries to bed: how technology can help sales professionals sleep easier

Paul Black drills down into the biggest concerns of sales reps and discusses how the right technology can ease the pressure. 

Business management

How to help your employees get through Blue Monday

Here's what companies can do to help their staff get through the post-holiday slump.

Marketing

Key design trends for small companies this year

Here, we look at some predictions for small business website and marketing communications design trends.

Business management

How to help your employees get through Blue Monday

Here's what companies can do to help their staff get through the post-holiday slump.

Marketing

Key design trends for small companies this year

Here, we look at some predictions for small business website and marketing communications design trends.

Employing & managing staff

Selecting only candidates who fit the company culture probably isn’t such a good thing after all

Companies spend a lot of time trying to operate in a particular culture and only recruit employees who fit into it; here's why that mindset is wrong.

Business Technology

The secret weapon of start-ups is their website

Robert Elding talks to three businesses about how they manage their websites and what advice can be given to new businesses on the subject.

Marketing

Why traffic does not result in profit for your online business

Lee Biggins identifies the issues business owners have with converting online traffic into profits and reveals how to get it right.

Office & home working

Christmas gift ideas for your work colleagues

Christmas is literally days away, which means all your presents should be bought, wrapped and maybe even exchanged by now.

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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