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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 manage a small business from your iPhone

Here, we look at the tools that enable a small company owner to manage their business from one device.

Business Technology

Buying and selling a company

Buying a business: What you need to know

Stephen Attree outlines the most important stages that need to be considered in order to ensure the successful acquisition of a business.

Finding and selling to customers

Attracting new customers: The holy grail for business owners

Here, we look at three ways to turn unique website visitors into paying customers.

Finding and selling to customers

The importance of recognising loyalty for a small business

Making sure you have a long-term plan to engage with and nurture customers will make the difference in your business, David Grimes argues in this piece.

Business management

Getting the credit you deserve as a small business

Here we look at the problem of small companies not being extended credit and what businesses can do to improve their credit score.

Legal advice

A guide for new businesses on getting health and safety in check

Here, Kate Russell offers some tips on your responsibilities to ensure an office compliant with health and safety regulations.

Business Technology

How to use tech to level the business playing field

In this article, Jesper Frederiksen looks at how small companies can make themselves appear bigger in the marketplace to compete with larger rivals through the use of innovative technology.

Business management

How to give back to your staff, community and industry

Ian Cowley discusses the ways in which a company can go beyond just selling a product and actively engage with others.

Business Technology

How to use tech to level the business playing field

In this article, Jesper Frederiksen looks at how small companies can make themselves appear bigger in the marketplace to compete with larger rivals through the use of innovative technology.

Business management

How to give back to your staff, community and industry

Ian Cowley discusses the ways in which a company can go beyond just selling a product and actively engage with others.

Business management

How to turn around your business following a crisis

David Lewis discusses how he navigated his own company through choppy waters to illustrate how small companies can survive setbacks and live to fight another day.

Business management

Tips for running a successful family business

The family business sector accounts for a quarter of UK GDP. Here, Phil Mitchell gives advice on managing a business that is family-run.

Business management

Top four reasons why small businesses fail 

Here, Alison Curry-Taylor discusses the big mistakes that have led to the demise of many small companies and how not to make them.

Buying and selling a company

Preparing your small business for an exit

This piece, in association with Bibby Financial Services, looks at why it is always worth thinking about an exit plan, even in the early stages of your business.

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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

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How should I select my business broadband provider?

As with any supplier, it’s important to do your research and ask important questions before you select a broadband provider for your business. But what are the must-have things you should take into consideration?

Business Technology

Future-proof your business communications set-up

Landlines as we know them will be scrapped in 2027 – along with a raft of upcoming business changes. Here's how to ensure your communications set-up is fit for whatever the future brings