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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.

Should your business strive to become a Great Place to Work institute?

Here, we look at the organisation with the goal of improving society by creating better workplaces, and how your business can get involved.

Office & home working

Business management

Cybercrime and SMEs

Here, we look at the topic of cybercrime and the targeting of small businesses by criminals.

Employing & managing staff

Rethinking the recruitment chasm

Lee Wade looks at how SMEs can successfully achieve scale by developing a new approach to recruitment.

Office & home working

Ways to motivate employees and keep them happy 

Here, David Price gives some tips on keeping your staff engaged.

Business Technology

Life before the cloud for small companies 

Being on board with cloud options means your company need not look small. Andy Hinxman presents some other benefits.

Legal advice

Consumer law issues you need to know as a small business owner

Consumers have significant rights, and companies need to be aware of them. Here, Guy Wilmot explores the most important issues to be clued up on.

Buying and selling a company

Dealing with existing staff in an acquired business

I am about to acquire a second business which already has existing employees. What do I need to be aware of in terms of HR procedures and inheriting the policies of existing staff?

Finding and selling to customers

How important is it to enter industry awards?

Ed Reeves discusses what can be gained from entering awards as a small business.

Buying and selling a company

Dealing with existing staff in an acquired business

I am about to acquire a second business which already has existing employees. What do I need to be aware of in terms of HR procedures and inheriting the policies of existing staff?

Finding and selling to customers

How important is it to enter industry awards?

Ed Reeves discusses what can be gained from entering awards as a small business.

Marketing

Small business video advice from content marketers

Garth Haley speaks to four content marketing experts on the benefits of using video content for small companies.

Employing & managing staff

What to do when you discover you have hired a bad apple

Here, Melanie Astbury looks at the prevention and cure strategies for company hires that misfire.

Business management

Top five tips for effective time management

Don't be a busy fool - make sure you and your business are performing efficiently, urges David Lewis.

Export & Import

How can small businesses efficiently expand into new territories?

Andrew Millard discusses the increasingly globalised business world and how small companies can prepare themselves for international trade.

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A guide to getting a small business loan

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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?

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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