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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.

10 Fast Growth Businesses

There are smaller companies in the UK which are increasing sales and improving margins. SmallBusiness.co.uk finds out how they're making it happen.

Business management

Business Technology

Transforming a business with a stock management system

Every business needs to move with the times if it wants to stay competitive. Daniel Puddick, managing director of the Sunglasses Shop, says the technology that transformed his business was a stock management system.

Marketing

How to master video marketing

In a world of digital entertainment, viewers now have an invaluable source of knowledge at their fingertips.

Employing & managing staff

Don’t change employee pension schemes just yet

Employers may do well to put any changes to their pensions schemes on hold until a decision is made this autumn.

Marketing

How to make social media work for your business

Social media like Twitter and Facebook may be easy to use, but it takes time and effort to make them commercially worthwhile for a business.

Business management

The 99p entrepreneur

Young buck Suleman Sacranie dropped out of university to launch online discount operator 99p Shopper in July and already has dreams of floating the company.

Marketing

Social networking and business

What can small businesses learn from larger enterprises that have embraced social networking?

Business Technology

Better business data

If you're looking to streamline your business processes, there are a variety of software tools available.

Marketing

Social networking and business

What can small businesses learn from larger enterprises that have embraced social networking?

Business Technology

Better business data

If you're looking to streamline your business processes, there are a variety of software tools available.

Office & home working

Office moves – The Essentials

Relocating a business takes time and money. Read these tips to ensure your office move goes without a hitch.

Business management

Sara Pomfret on setting up her home furnishing business Raines & Willow

Sara Pomfret set up her home furnishing business, Raines &Willow, earlier this year with her father, David Brown. It's already making a profit.

Finding and selling to customers

Interview with David Strang of toy company Wicked Vision

David Strang's boomerang and toy company Wicked Vision has soared since he first launched it ten years ago.

Employing & managing staff

Unpaid leave

Some of my staff are having unpaid time off, although they have an entitlement of 24 days per annum. Can the amount of holiday entitlement be adjusted because they are not working the amount of time they are contracted to do?

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A guide to getting a small business loan

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What are the funding options for hospitality businesses?

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Employing & managing staff

The importance of vocational rehabilitation services for SMEs

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What are the benefits of business broadband?

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