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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.

Work quicker, greener and smarter

When you're running a business, it's easy to lose sight of the little things that can make everyone's lives easier and your company much more efficient.

Office & home working

Business management

Jennifer Irvine, founder of The Pure Package

Jennifer Irvine launched The Pure Package in 2004 as a home-delivery meals service tailored to meet clients' individual dietary requirements and preferences. In its first year, Pure Package delivered 70,000 meals and achieved a turnover of £200,000. The company has since grown into a multi-million pound operation. We asked her for her top tips.

Finding and selling to customers

How to make more sales

SmallBusiness.co.uk spoke to Grant Leboff, self-titled ‘most pessimistic salesperson in Britain’ and author of Sales Therapy: Effective Selling for the Small Business Owner, for some tips on generating sales.

Small Business Insurance

Can you afford to ignore flood risk?

Small businesses are more at risk from flooding than fire - and the effects can be 30 times as costly as burglary - yet many businesses still do not have any measures in place to protect their property or staff from flooding, says , the Environment Agency.

Business management

Protecting your ideas

As small business owners competing against larger players, one of the biggest challenges you will face is how to protect your ideas or inventions from theft and imitation.

Legal advice

Businesses ‘need to watch out for age discrimination laws’

Awareness of the age discrimination regulation is 'comparatively low' within small firms, according to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

Marketing

Radio advertising as a small business marketing strategy is dead

It's official, radio advertising as a small business marketing strategy is dead. At least that's the opinion of SmallBusiness.co.uk readers in our recent poll.

Finding and selling to customers

How to stand out from the crowd

As a small business owner in a competitive market, you need to differentiate your business from your competitors. It is what makes you different, your unique selling point or USP, that motivates people to choose you over anyone else. This guide from SmallBusiness.co.uk should give you some useful tips.

Marketing

Radio advertising as a small business marketing strategy is dead

It's official, radio advertising as a small business marketing strategy is dead. At least that's the opinion of SmallBusiness.co.uk readers in our recent poll.

Finding and selling to customers

How to stand out from the crowd

As a small business owner in a competitive market, you need to differentiate your business from your competitors. It is what makes you different, your unique selling point or USP, that motivates people to choose you over anyone else. This guide from SmallBusiness.co.uk should give you some useful tips.

Marketing

Direct marketing ‘still the best way to reach customers’

Marketing experts still cite direct marketing as the most efficient way to reach both customers and other businesses, according to Precision Marketing.

Business management

Charlie Mullins: Who wants to be a self-made millionaire?

SmallBusiness.co.uk asks self-made millionaire Charlie Mullins, who built his company, Pimlico Plumbers, into a multi-million pound business, to give us his top tips.

Finding and selling to customers

How to find your clients

Reader's question: I am very new at this and have just started my own bookkeeping business working from home. I am finding it very hard to find clients. Do you have any advice?

Employing & managing staff

Paying staff for bank holidays

I am opening a new business, with regards to bank holidays, do I have to pay my staff holiday pay for them?

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Employing & managing staff

The importance of vocational rehabilitation services for SMEs

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