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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.

Top PR tips

PR is often considered untouchable by small businesses and best left to the experts and bigger players. But getting good media coverage needn’t be scary or complex.

Finding and selling to customers

Employing & managing staff

Smokers’ rights

What are an employee's rights on smoking within the work day? i.e. Are they entitled to specified breaks?

Business Technology

Maximise your website’s potential

A website can be the key to business growth and unlock markets across the globe, but the wrong website will be overlooked almost as soon as it's been visited. Visitors make up their mind about the quality of a website in seconds so if you don't do it right you'll miss vital opportunities, giving the edge to your competition.

Employing & managing staff

Employing migrant workers – Need to know

Employing non-UK nationals can bring with it a variety of benefits, may reduce workforce shortages and can help promote equality and diversity. Yet business owners need to understand how to comply with relevant legislation and make sure the candidate is legally employable in the UK.

Small Business Insurance

What is Professional Indemnity Insurance cover?

Professional indemnity insurance cover could protect your business from financially crippling and often reputation-damaging claims by dissatisfied clients. Find out how.

Employing & managing staff

SMEs should take heart

While businesses of all sizes are starting to invest in the wellness of their employees by introducing company health schemes, gym memberships and stop-smoking initiatives, they are overlooking the UK’s biggest killer, sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) says a campaign to raise awareness on the issue.

Marketing

Making a success of direct mail

The key to building a winning direct mail campaign is having a clear idea of your target market and selecting a list that matches this market.

Business management

Entrepreneur Lessons Learned: Mike Tobin, CEO of TelecityRedbus

SmallBusiness.co.uk asks a seasoned entrepreneur or inspirational manager to share their experiences and offer advice for SMEs. With the benefit of hindsight, what do they wish they'd known when they started? Charismatic Mike Tobin, CEO of TelecityRedbus offers his pearls of wisdom.

Marketing

Making a success of direct mail

The key to building a winning direct mail campaign is having a clear idea of your target market and selecting a list that matches this market.

Business management

Entrepreneur Lessons Learned: Mike Tobin, CEO of TelecityRedbus

SmallBusiness.co.uk asks a seasoned entrepreneur or inspirational manager to share their experiences and offer advice for SMEs. With the benefit of hindsight, what do they wish they'd known when they started? Charismatic Mike Tobin, CEO of TelecityRedbus offers his pearls of wisdom.

Employing & managing staff

How to deal with absence in the workplace

Staff absences can seriously affect the success of your business, your profits and your customer service, but it is possible to minimise the impact of absence by putting the proper measures in place to deal with it.

Business Technology

Top IT tips from the geeks

As we become more and more dependent on computers for business, it is important to keep up to date with changes in technology and to protect our private information. Read our top IT tips, written in conjunction with the folk at Geeks-on-wheels, to find out how to protect your business and save money on IT spending.

Employing & managing staff

Rule change could stop sickies

Proposed changes to the way official sick notes are issued may help reduce the number of non-genuine absences from work, say employment lawyers.

Marketing

Marketing on a budget

What is the difference between the businesses that succeed and the ones that don't? Quite simply, customers.

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Business Loans

A guide to getting a small business loan

Everything you need to know on what small business loans are and what types of loan are available for your business.

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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?

Partner content

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