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How to feel more than content with your business website

Here, Stefano Maruzzi discusses the key considerations to make when putting content on your website.

Marketing

Productivity Zone

Do motivational posters actually increase productivity?

Here, we ask the question, how many of us actually take note of motivational messages?

Marketing

How to feel more than content with your business website

Here, Stefano Maruzzi discusses the key considerations to make when putting content on your website.

Productivity Zone

Do motivational posters actually increase productivity?

Here, we ask the question, how many of us actually take note of motivational messages?

Business Ideas & Planning

Navigating the formative stages of a business

Here, we interview two small companies about starting up, the challenges they faced and how they survived the first year.

Advice

Is e-cigs the fastest-growing industry in the UK?

What is behind the rapid growth of the vaping industry?

Marketing

Hidden SME overheads: The cost of poor data management

Jon Cano-Lopez discusses the marketing importance of keeping your database in check.

Business Loans

How three companies received a start up loan

Here, we look at three small businesses and their efforts to secure finance through the Coventry and Warwickshire Reinvestment Trust.

Business Ideas & Planning

Should you become an entrepreneur?

Draven McConville brings home the realities of turning that idea into a real-life business. Are you up to the task?

Business Ideas & Planning

Key considerations for a start-up office 

What do you need from your first office? Here, we look at the considerations you need to make when looking.

Marketing

Key design trends for small companies this year

Here, we look at some predictions for small business website and marketing communications design trends.

Business Technology

The secret weapon of start-ups is their website

Robert Elding talks to three businesses about how they manage their websites and what advice can be given to new businesses on the subject.

Finding and selling to customers

Need to create a loyalty programme? Here are some tips

Loyalty programmes allow you to build a community and achieve customer satisfaction.

News

Consumers seek products and services of smaller businesses

Recent data has shown a meteoric rise in consumers turning to independent, local shops and tradesmen over recent years.

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.