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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.

Improving the user experience of your website

James Cox gives a few tips on making your site as visitor-friendly as possible.

Business Technology

Employing & managing staff

Preventing illegal working: Changes to employer obligations

Peter Done discusses recent changes to the obligation for businesses to run checks to ensure employees are not illegal workers.

Finding and selling to customers

The pitching errors small agencies should take care to avoid

In this article, sales expert Andy Preston explains the real-life mistakes agencies make when pitching that often cost them valuable business.

Business Technology

Protecting your online business: Cybersecurity and beyond

In this piece, brought to you in association with .co.uk, the number one domain for British business, SmallBusiness.co.uk looks at the key things to consider in regards to online security and IT education.

Business Technology

How hosted telephony can work for small businesses

Why small businesses should move their telephony system to the cloud.

Employing & managing staff

What happens if you offer a job to an individual then change your mind?

Can you retract a job offer if someone more suitable comes along? Peter Done explains.

Export & Import

Shipping and logistics: How best to create an outstanding e-commerce experience for customers

SmallBusiness.co.uk, in association with UPS, looks at what factors contribute to an effective e-commerce offering, from website management to distribution of product.

Business management

Unfair online criticism: Managing your brand reputation

Tom Lingard discusses the measures you can take to deal with unfair comments about your business online.

Export & Import

Shipping and logistics: How best to create an outstanding e-commerce experience for customers

SmallBusiness.co.uk, in association with UPS, looks at what factors contribute to an effective e-commerce offering, from website management to distribution of product.

Business management

Unfair online criticism: Managing your brand reputation

Tom Lingard discusses the measures you can take to deal with unfair comments about your business online.

Employing & managing staff

Flexible working to get more flexible from June

New employment rules will mean the right to request flexible working will be extended to all employees with 26 weeks service from June 30th.

Business Technology

Mobile VoIP is ready for business

Consumer mobile VoIP services like Skype, Viber, Vyke and WhatsApp are enjoying accelerating growth. Mark Egginton, sales and marketing director from Vyke, investigates why enterprise is feeling left out.

Marketing

SME internet and social media marketing strategies

Conrad Ford, managing director of Funding Options, looks at some internet and social media marketing methods you might use as a small business.

Employing & managing staff

A step-by-step guide to managing repeated employee absence

With the cost of sick leave absence escalating, Neil Atkinson discusses how to address the problem in six steps.

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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