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Running a Business

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.

Why boosting productivity means innovating small business technology

Experts agree that Britain faces a productivity challenge. Keeping on top of IT will be increasingly important as we move into the age of the attention economy.

Productivity Zone

Business Technology

How 5G mobile technology will help your small business

5G will stimulate the emergence of start-ups and small businesses, opening the door to create products and services unimaginable before

Productivity Zone

Flex space: why your office is the key to boosting productivity

The concept of flexible working can be traced back to the 1960s – and one of its pioneers should surprise you. Businesses shouldn’t be afraid to flex, says Tom Carroll

Marketing

6 hacks to improve your small business digital marketing

BBC Apprentice winner Mark Wright offers small businesses six ways to get results from their digital marketing.

Getting Online

Nominations open to join UK Domain Leaders programme

Entrepreneurs who have made the most of their online business offering can enter the UK Domain Leaders programme – we show you how.

Business management

Learn the essentials of cash flow management and maximising revenue

Master these two pillars of running a small business with webinars from SAP Concur. Here's what you need to know and how to register.

Legal advice

What should I do if I get a subject access request?

With GDPR came an update to the subject access request policy. What should you do if a customer or an employee sends you one?

Getting Online

Building and designing your perfect website

In partnership with the UK Domain, we give you some handy tips to help you design and build a website for your small business.

Legal advice

What should I do if I get a subject access request?

With GDPR came an update to the subject access request policy. What should you do if a customer or an employee sends you one?

Getting Online

Building and designing your perfect website

In partnership with the UK Domain, we give you some handy tips to help you design and build a website for your small business.

Getting Online

How can you get your website on Google?

In partnership with the UK Domain, we tell you how to get visibility for your website on Google.

Marketing

The pros and cons of business blogging

Blogs make up part of a new era of Internet growth and if done well can be essential to any marketing or PR strategy. Read this guide to business blogging and its benefits from SmallBusiness.co.uk and Hayden Allen-Vercoe from Orbital Media.

Business Technology

Digital transformation – a disruptive force for all sectors of the economy

Digital transformation is going mainstream. Today it has widespread application across different industries. Companies of all stripes are discussing technology investment and the opportunities available for investors and for businesses. Walter Price of Allianz Technology Trust explains.

Business management

Family business wealth and protecting it on divorce

When a couple divorce and there is family business wealth in common, protecting that wealth requires special consideration. Charmaine Hast of lawyers Wedlake Bell offers some analysis

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

Partner content

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

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.