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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.

The real cost of an unhealthy workplace on your employees

Investing in a healthy workplace proves cost effective for small businesses.

Employing & managing staff

Export & Import

Top tips for trading overseas

Here, Rachel Mainwaring, operations director at Creditsafe, gives us her top tips for trading and exporting your business overseas.

Business management

What your office design says about you as a leader

Here, we look at how you design your office space for your employees can shape you as a business leader.

Small Business Insurance

Mind the gap: What you need to know about liability insurance

In this piece, Ashley Singer discusses the insurance gap and what small businesses need to be aware of.

Marketing

How to use sensory marketing to increase sales in retail

Engaging your customers five senses through sensory marketing could improve your retail profit.

Business Technology

Is AI capable of being a moral compass? Facebook’s anti-terror AI dreams are fantasy

Facebook has a responsibility to find a way to prevent and protect users from dangerous content, but do ideas for the use of ‘superhuman’ AI offer a realistic solution?

Marketing

A step-by-step guide to starting a WordPress blog

This comprehensive guide will help you create a WordPress blog without any technical expertise.

Marketing

Seven content types that will optimise your conversion rate

These content types are all things you've seen before, but have you ever thought about how you could leverage them for your own marketing campaigns?

Marketing

A step-by-step guide to starting a WordPress blog

This comprehensive guide will help you create a WordPress blog without any technical expertise.

Marketing

Seven content types that will optimise your conversion rate

These content types are all things you've seen before, but have you ever thought about how you could leverage them for your own marketing campaigns?

Business management

The conscious guide to stress in the workplace

Neil Seligman discusses stress in the workplace and how to react to it.

Office & home working

The new workplace: watch this space

Here, Phil Sugden, sales and marketing director at Portal Group, tells us how to transform your office workspace.

Business Technology

Why technology should be every business owner’s best friend

Here, Tim Campbell, the first Apprentice winner, offers his tips on how technology and a bit of self-discipline can help you reduce stress, take back control, and grow your business.

Business Technology

What is digital transformation and what does it mean for SMEs?

What does the term 'digital transformation' mean and why should SMEs be getting on board? Here, Matt Hunt takes a look.

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