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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.

How strict should your workplace be?

In this piece, Lee Biggins, founder and managing director of CV-Library, explores how strict workplaces should be in an era of widespread distractions for employees.

Employing & managing staff

Marketing

Lessons learned from Card Factory’s reputational crisis

Card Factory came under fire last month for perceived insensitivity towards diversity of sexuality. Here, Jennifer Janson, chairman of Six Degrees, discusses what businesses can learn from the episode.

Marketing

Five tips to get your business started with social media advertising

Ben Harrington of BlueSocial looks at the rise in brands turning to platforms like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter to reach the right audience and outlines why and how you should be advertising your business on social media.

Employing & managing staff

Gen Z hold key to commercial success, say leading business figures

CEOs believe that Gen Z employees have the technical skills and drive needed to grow their businesses.

Productivity Zone

Six in ten business believe automation will drive productivity

New report highlights the impact digital transformation will have on businesses and recruitment strategies.

Business management

The top five questions you should never ask in an interview

New research shows 87.4 per cent of workers think there are certain questions candidates should avoid asking in an interview.

Business Technology

Why you shouldn’t pay up to ransomware

Here, Andrew Stuart, managing director at Datto EMEA, explains why you should never pay the ransomware when you are attacked.

Legal advice

What next for employment tribunal fees?

Raphael Prais, employment specialist at LHS Solicitors, outlines what SMEs need to know about the recent Supreme Court ruling on employment tribunal fees.

Business Technology

Why you shouldn’t pay up to ransomware

Here, Andrew Stuart, managing director at Datto EMEA, explains why you should never pay the ransomware when you are attacked.

Legal advice

What next for employment tribunal fees?

Raphael Prais, employment specialist at LHS Solicitors, outlines what SMEs need to know about the recent Supreme Court ruling on employment tribunal fees.

Marketing

Three strategic wins gained by working with mail experts

Here, Mark Calladine, sales director of CMS Network, explains three benefits for businesses to work with mail experts.

Legal advice

How small businesses can prepare for a hike in interest rates

Rising interest rates are often a sign of economic change in a country, we take a look at how businesses can prepare for the hike.

Employing & managing staff

No salary talk please, we’re British! Staff reveal topics to be avoided

New research discovers nearly half of Brits are in favour of workplace censorship, banning talk of salaries, politics and religion.

Marketing

Lessons for small business marketers from epic campaign fails

Here, Claire Wilson, content strategy director at Stratton Craig, teaches us the lessons we can learn from bad marketers.

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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.

Business Technology

Friendly guide – top tips for small businesses switching to VoIP

With the landline shutdown coming fast, there’s never been a better time to switch to VoIP. Don’t let your small business be left behind!

Export & Import

Avoid delays with exports and imports

Many factors can affect products’ journeys from A to B. Here are some tips for best practice for successful shipping in the modern world