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List of all articles... How to Track Your Competition’s Marketing Strategy How to Find Your Brand’s Voice When to Start Looking For Outside Capital How to Make Your Business Cards a Marketing Tool Four Steps to Ensuring Your Strategy Achieves Results Important Attributes of Content Marketing Google+ Has Been Revamped How to Make Your Brand Powerful: Lessons from the Fair Trade Industry Lessons from Failed Start-Ups Contract Agreements That Every Small Business Should Have Start Up Costs to Avoid In the First Six Months How to Handle Internal Employee Promotion How Niche Businesses Can Compete With Big Brands How to Improve Your Social Media Engagement 8 Pinterest Boards worth Creating For a Small Business 12 Tips for Brands How to Achieve the Right Marketing Mix Is it Time to Update Your Website Content? How to Make Your Video Content Go Viral Business Decisions to Help Your Business Stay Afloat Characteristics of a Small Business Owner How to Plan Your Online Presence Fixing a bad Reputation for a Small Business Steps to Becoming a Self-Employed Consultant Time Saving Tips for Small Businesses Pay-Per-Click Mistakes That Can Cost You Money The Challenges of Being an Entrepreneur Working from Home Customer Service Lessons Social Media Problems for Small Businesses How to Add a Personal Touch to Your Start-Ups Customer Service How Your Website Might Be Draining Your Money 7 Ways to Make Money on Pinterest Why Businesses Should Increase Their Twitter Presence How to Promote Your Website through Links How to get your Customers to Open Your Emails Why Getting Back To Basics Can Help Increase Business Growth How Use Your Knowledge to Connect With Your Customers Does Your Business Need a YouTube Channel? Why Passion Can Sometimes Ruin Sales Success It is not enough To Have an Idea Leadership Qualities Needed to Run a Small Business Online Marketing Strategies for a Small Budget How to Build Customer Loyalty What to Look For When Hiring an SEO Company 10 Ways to Attract Your Target Market via Social Media Are You An Entrepreneur? How to Communicate Company Culture How to Research Social Media Public Relations in Small Businesses Customer Mobility Social Media Development How to Recover from A Social Media Fall Creating a Marketing Plan Press Release Offenses Social Media in Small Businesses How to Network Successfully How to Have a Successful Sales Presentation The Importance of a Marketing Routine Creating a Business Plan How to Make Your Brand Memorable On Social Media Creating a Company Culture That People Will Want to Join Is A SEO Press Prelease Necessary? Sources of Short Term Working Capital for Start Ups Keeping Your Staff Motivated in a Small Company How to Market Your Product with No Budget Finding Your ‘Unique Selling Point’ How to Grow Reviewing Your Website 5 Start-up Mistakes How to Get More Website Visitors Customising Your Pitch for Every Investor Marketing Lessons from a Start Up Validating Your Business Idea Daily Social Media Habits What Do Visitors Think Of Your Website? Working in a Start-up How to Get Skilled Employees Website Essentials Becoming an Entrepreneur Tips for Getting a Business Loan How to Create a Start Up Why Every Business Needs to Plan How to Make Financial Forecasts Customer Retention Using Market Research Start Your Business in 2013 Improving Content through SEO How to Set up Your Start Up on a Tight Budget The Transition from Corporate Life into an Entrepreneur How to Pitch to Investors Social Media Campaigns How to Be a Great Entrepreneur Online Marketing Trends for 2013 Productive Brainstorming How to Get Your Business in Order for 2013 3 Vital Tips for Launching Your Product How to Market Your Start-up on a Small Budget 6 Ways to Ease into Entrepreneurship 4 Steps to Achieving Your Goals What to do if you have a Great Business Idea How to Build a Successful Small Business Brand How to Improve your Social Marketing in 2013 The Art of Business Brainstorming How Teaming Up With Other Entrepreneurs Could Lead to Success Five Tips That Can Make You a Better Negotiator 4 Tips for Moving Past the Start-Up Stage Actions that Lead to Business Success Places to Promote Your Blog Qualitative Market Research Vs Quantitative Market Research Why It Pays to Have a Company Blog 7 Ways to Increase Engagement on Your Website 10 Things Entrepreneurs Should Be Tweeting About Turning Website Visitors into Buyers How to Expand Without Money from the Bank Trends That Will Shape Small Businesses in 2013 Is Using Instagram Worth it for Your Business? 3 Ingredients of a Successful Startup Time to Review Your Website Promoting Your Brand without Facebook Launching Your Business 4 Alternative Pay-Per-Click Advertising Options 5 Ways to Set Up a Start Up for Success How to Find Great Social Media Content Let People Work for You 3 Recovery Strategies That Create Innovation 4 Ways to Keep a Small Company Culture as Your Business Grows 5 Mistakes to Avoid on Facebook 4 Ways to Beat Your Competitors at SEO The 5 Vital Research Steps for any New Business Idea 5 Tips for Building a Solid Mobile Website 7 Ways to Market a New Product or Service 4 Reasons Why Do-it-Yourself Marketing Can Actually Hurt Your Business The 6 Elements of Successful Content Marketing The 3 Key Ingredients for Launching Your Business 4 Genius Ideas That Changed Marketing Forever How to Put Together a Strategic Business and Marketing Plan 5 Important SEO Factors for Bloggers 5 Facebook Marketing Resources You May Not Know About What You Can Learn from Celebrities about Social Media 6 Tips for Starting a Business Understand the Critical Difference Between Ideas and Opportunities 6 Effective Strategies to Increase Customer Communication Pinterest: Why Your Business Needs It. Why Social Media Marketing May Be Hurting Rather Than Helping Your Business 4 Steps to Creating Buzz on a Shoestring Budget Best Ways Start ups can Track the Prevailing Trends in the Market 5 Top Tips for Avoiding Bad Debts 5 Tips for Start-ups Going Global Selling What the Customer Needs The Importance of Record Keeping Measuring Business Performance Good Business Plan, Good Exit 3 Ways to Improve the Respondent Experience 3 Things You Need to Know About LinkedIn’s Company Pages Small Business Time Mangement Why Every Small Business Needs a Plan Create Great Blogs with a Solid Structure How to Leverage Satisfied Customers for Growth 10 Top Reasons Why First-Time Entrepreneurs Fail Does Your Site Need Help? How to Incorporate Social Media into your Business Plan 7 Ways to Weigh Your Start-Up Risks and Reduce Them Starting Up 13 Must-Know Tech Terms Translated Adding Alerts to Surveys Email Marketers Optimize for Mobile How to get Started with Market Research 6 Steps To Get Media Attention The Right Way Competitive Intelligence Tips for Starting and Succeeding in Your Own Business 3 Ways Analytics Can Help Grow Your Business How Long is Too Long? Summer of SEO Success 5 Steps to Dealing with Customer Issues 3 Social Media Lessons from the Olympics 5 Steps to Hiring Your First Employee Make a Great First Impression: 5 Smart Tricks How to Think Like a Gold Medalist The Logo Mishaps of Giant Brands 3 Critical Questions to Ask Yourself Before Posting to Facebook 4 Ways to Win the Hearts of Employees Don't Let Meetings Suck Your Time How to Get Your Brand Used and Endorsed by Celebrities Cure Your Business’ Summertime Blues 5 Critical Skills for Marketing Success Top 5 Online Marketing Campaigns 2012 3 Simple Things to Do this Weekend for Your Business THINGS TO DO AFTER YOU’VE WRITTEN A NEW BLOG POST 3 Little-Known Metrics That Can Help Optimize Your Facebook Page The Biggest Mistake Small Businesses Make in Brainstorming 5 Tips for Making It Work as a Part-Time Entrepreneur 5 Beliefs of Remarkably Successful People 5 Ways to Weigh Your Start-Up Risks — and Reduce Them 5 Easy Ways to Increase Customer Loyalty for Your Small Business 4 Tips for Making Your Website More Social Quantity vs. Price: Be Careful Not to Overspend Need a Business Idea? Tap Into Lifestyle Trends in the Evolving Luxury Market Discover the 3 P’s to PR Success Why should anyone follow your business on Twitter? Tips for Creating Business Videos That Customers Will Watch Ways Introverts can Get the Conversation Going on Social Media Innovate with side businesses The 5 Common Qualities of Thriving Entrepreneurs 5 Cutting-Edge Tech Gadgets to Look Out For 4 Things Brand Advocates Want You to Know 5 Tips for Building A Powerful LinkedIn Profile Create Your Ideal Work Week 5 Lessons Every Entrepreneur Can Learn From 'Dragons Den' To Develop Your Network, Target Your Market Ways for Entrepreneurs to Make the Most of a Corporate Job (Even if You Hate It!) Top 5 Marketing & Advertising ideas from the last 12 months BBC Apprentice 2012 Episode 11 firing: Adam Corbally misses out on final Build Self-Confidence: 4 Mental Tricks Tips for Researching Your Audience to Improve Blog Posts 5 Business Conversations to Have Today Building a Brand for Your Small Business 4 Strategies for High-Speed Sales How to Survive Your Start-up's First Year 5 Tips for Networking Three Things You Must Know Before Pitching Investors Tips from Winning Entrepreneurs Creative Fundraising for Startups Oh No, What Do I Test Three Steps to More Word-of-Mouth -- and More Business Foster A Collaborative Sales Team: 5 Ways How to Find Your Next Great Idea GRADPRENEURS FIGHT THE SLUMP 5 Tips on How to Present Like Steve Jobs 3 Common Small Business Pricing Mistakes Recession-Era Recovery Strategies For Entrepreneurs Want a “Happiness Problem”? What Every Woman Business Owner Needs to Know to Succeed Pop Goes the Small Business 5 Tips For Surviving Your Startup’s First Year Identifying Your Ideal Customer Britain ranked 14th most entrepreneurial nation Don’t make these 5 business plan mistakes 5 Tips for Naming Your Business Business Etiquette: 4 Rules That Matter Now 8 Tips on How to be a Greener Micro Business The One Simple Task That Will Help Your Startup Succeed 4 Golden Freebies to Outshine your Competition Make Good Decisions: 4 Tips Three Titanic business mistakes to avoid Managing Your Ideas Using your business plan Six Steps to Event Success 5 Signs Your Business is in a Marketing Rut How to Handle Negative Online Reviews of Your Business Employee and Customer Satisfaction Correlation 5 Components of a Successful Marketing Plan When It’s Time to Fire an Employee Don't Promote from Within; 5 Reasons How To Break Your Business Into The Next Tier 5 tips to getting small business financing Should You Outsource Your Internet Marketing? 5 Keys For Driving Your Competition Crazy Six Keys to Boost Your Business in 2012 What To Do When You Have Nothing to Blog About 7 Low-Budget Small Business Marketing Ideas 5 Helpful Tips for Managing Stress as an Entrepreneur Is Business Sustainability Moving Fast Enough? Breaking down the new Facebook Insights 5 Branding must-haves for startups 5 ways to prepare for Facebook Timeline 4 Reasons You Need to Meet in Person Common Marketing Mistakes To Avoid Are You Falling Into the Pricing Trap? Suit yourself at Sheffield’s first ever Suit Swap Pitching Your Business vs. Planning Your Business 5 Keys for Work at Home Success 5 tips for improving your website content Your Niche – 3 Criteria to Be Sure You’ve Got the Right One Customer Testimonials: Turn Your Biggest Fans into Salespeople Five Tips to Inspire Innovation at Your Small Business Welcome to the Party: Blogging Getting Your Invention To Market 5 of the Best Smartphone Apps for Business Britain's Businesses: Your Country Needs You! Using Price Discrimination to Increase Business Sales How to Write a Survey - Effectively? How To Get The Sales You Want 7 Terrific Twitter Tips To Use Today Protect Yourself From Poachers: 5 Tips 4 Reasons Business Partnerships Fail Five Tips for Retooling Your Business 6 Creative Marketing Ideas to Make Your Business Stand Out Most Common Start-up Mistakes Top 5 Marketing Trends of 2012 4 Ways to Be More Authentically Green Things Your Employees Need Most Market Research Process: 6 Steps to Project Success LONDON’S NEW SMART RECYCLING BINS Avoid the Backward Start-up 6 Things Highly Productive People Do 5 Traits of Highly Successful Salesmen How to Negotiate with Prospective Investors Ways To Crush Your Competition Reasons You’ll Fail at Marketing The Benefit of Market Research The Golden Rule About Your Great Ideas Important Trends To Watch In 2012 Five Painless Ways to Raise Prices this Year Oops! Common Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make On Their Websites Want to Be an Entrepreneur? Three ways to improve the online perception of your company in 2012 Design Tips for Mobile Survey Invitations Start a business while you work for others Promote Your Business Without Being Pushy Timesaving Tips for the New Year List Of Inspirational & Motivational Quotes On Entrepreneurship Will 2012 be the Year You Start a New Business? Five Tips for Becoming a Better Boss Why You Should Start a Business in 2012 3 Marketing Things We Do Wrong That We Could Easily Do Right Top 5 business ideas for 2012 Here’s Why Good Business Planning Takes Hours, not Months Surveys Without a Goal Won't Hit the Target How to Give Online Shoppers Confidence in Your Website Where to focus in 2012 Figure Out What Customers Want: Learn How to Market Research Online Ways To Kick Start Your New Year Build Your Startup Team With People Better Than You Marketing Secrets from Santa Claus How to Define Your Target Market How to Not Fail as an Entrepreneur How to Use Social Media for Research and Development Do You Really Require a New Business Plan Going Into 2012? 5 Ways to Lighten Holiday Season Stress Reality Checks Before Starting A Business Attracting Your Ideal Customer – Every Time Business Plans: How Much is Too Much Research? Ways to Make Customers Love a Local Business Smallest businesses need more support, say MPs Warning signs your supplier is going bust What Your Customers (And Everyone Else) Really Want 5 Ways to Turn Social Customers Into Brand Ambassadors 5 Keys to Successful Sales Strategies Ways to (Legally) Spy on Your Competitors Ways to Save Money For Your Business 5 Essentials to Cultivate Your Business Four Rules for Pricing Products Tips on Growing Your Small Business Quickly 3 Ways Entrepreneurs Differ From Business Owners Pros and Cons of New Grads Starting a Business Five Ways Your Business Can Grab Market Share Today Ways to Keep Your Biggest Customer Ways to Effectively Market Your Small Business Ways to Prevent Startup Exhaustion Business Startup Checklist The Right Time for Business Planning Steps to Starting Your Own Business Don’t Get Spooked by Starting Your Own Business How to Be an Entrepreneur: Startup Launch Lessons The Two Faces of Surveys Credit and Financing Mistakes That Will Hurt Your Small Business Tips on raising equity finance Entrepreneur: Challenge Yourself Before You Invest Be a Better Entrepreneur – 4 Key Areas for Focused Improvement 5 Ideas for Eliminating Startup Funk Four Common Startup Money Mistakes Ways to protect your brilliant new business idea Three Questions to Answer Before You Write a Business Plan Steve Jobs and the Seven Rules of Success Ways to turn browsers into buyers How to Take Your Business to the Next Level 5 Pitfalls When Jumping From Corporate To Startup 13 Tools to Help You Become a Master Marketer Ways to fund your business without a bank loan 5 Common Entrepreneurial Mistakes to Avoid A tribute to the life and legacy of Steve Jobs What You Must Answer in Your Business Plan What Makes a Successful Business Plan? The Two Lenses of Market Research Business Start-up Checklist Making Finance Work for Your Company Why Do Most Start Ups Fail? From Entrepreneur to Icon in Five Steps Raise finance – tips for success Does College Matter for Entrepreneurs? How to Avoid Bankruptcy in Year One of Your Business 5 Tips to Improve Your Marketing Mix Lessons from those who have taken the plunge to starting up on their own! How to keep start-up costs down How to pick the right idea for your Startup 4 Considerations for Expanding Your Startup to International Markets 5 Things You Need to Succeed as an Entrepreneur New start-up grants announced SMEs could be missing out on tax benefits A Deeper Look On Startup Failure And Its Top Cause: Premature Scaling Why 11 Businesses Launched Online Instead Of With a Storefront Pessimistic SMEs, lower business confidence, true market indicator? New UK Enterprise Zones - Benefits, criticisms Why The Apprentice is good for British enterprise The Apprentice: Who Is Going To Be Fired Tonight? The Apprentice, inspiration to define the most important traits of an entrepreneur Eight ways to generate new product ideas 5 reasons why small businesses go under Tips for creating your Business Plan 10 reasons to start a business while working Entrepreneurial Independence Angel Investors Requests Increasing Britain Could Loose AAA Rating US Demand Helping UK Exports UK Small Businesses Fear Double Dip Start-ups continue to increase Should you be a small business owner? Regulations still confusing small business owners New Grant Launched for SME Technology R&D 5 Top Tips for Start-up Success Banks Will Miss First Merlin Target How Small Business Can Attract More Customers Another Funding Avenue for SMEs Launched! No One Wants Mediocrity In Business Will banks fall at first Merlin Deal test? Sick Days Cost Economy £17 Billion Small Business Online Sales Reach £36 bn But More Can Be Done! New Funding System to Rival the Banks London Entrepreneurial Exchange Launches: Gut instinct + Resources help small businesses change and grow Prime Minister admits: Enterprise is only hope Positive outlook for UK exports Getting ready to be your own boss Research finds business confidence up since new budget launched 7 Principles of Small Business Success SME lead the way in growth! Top 1% of entrepreneurs create 40% of new jobs 8 top tips for young entrepreneurs! UK companies need to spend more SMEs embrace Social Media Consumer Index shows very slight rise in moral Entrepreneurs demand for finance falls 7 Easy Ways To Motivate Employees 5 Steps to Find Your Ideal Market Segment Five steps for getting your business up and running successfully Job vacancies up and salaries rise faster FPB: Put appeals process to the test SMEs confident of survival despite double-dip fears Online retailers blast planned changes to EU rules Financing seminars to aid SMEs Economy makes hesitant recovery CBI calls for carbon reduction commitment that 'works for businesses' New Measures to Encourage Youth Enterprise Bank's Posen says inflation to drop in 2012 FSB: Budget could have done more Budget 2011: Britain Open for Business Email marketing seen as spam Startups to be exempt from employment red tape Osborne told to give us entrepreneurs' Budget UK unemployment hits new highs Businesses tune in to social media TV shows are inspiring entrepreneurism in the UK Exports boom for UK businesses Minister to encourage colleagues to join small firms Inflated energy bills hurt SMEs Ask the experts: Product differentiation Government under pressure to encourage female entrepreneurship Job market warmed up in February SMEs look to bolster employee skills How to be a great business owner Budget must boost small business confidence Unemployment rise could cause ‘perfect storm’ SMEs look to supplier squeeze Businesses hampered by overseas labour cap SMEs shun government information Ten Strategic Risks to Embrace for Every Startup FSB: Don't axe graduate scheme Five Tips for Making Better Decisions Small firms looking overseas as UK marketplace ‘saturated’ Free Banking for Small Business Red tape could 'derail recovery' 14 Ways to Make Customers Love Your Small Business Government to help SMEs win contracts Banks commit to £76 billion for small businesses CBI: It's growth, but 'sluggish' How To Know Your Side Project Is Ready To Be A Startup SMEs concerned about squeezed profits Multi-million pound entrepreneurship scheme launched For Entrepreneurs, Success is Ideas with Follow-up Enterprise UK to call it a day UK businesses to improve online presence Snapshot of Entrepreneurship around the Globe: New products and markets key to a good 2011 We'd pay more tax for less red tape Should I Become an Entrepreneur? UK start-ups more likely to seek support Small firms reveal international growth plans How to Come Up with Great Ideas People are the path to profit at all times Four Trends Startups Need to Know Now Social entrepreneurs: doing good business Academics given lessons on getting into a business mind Entrepreneurs Optimistic About 2011 UK Economy SMEs too focused on Europe as trade deficit jumps Aid for setting up businesses ‘is inadequate’ The Best Start-up Consultants are Customers Eight small business trends to watch in 2011 Two-thirds of SMEs optimistic about 2011 Record levels of entrepreneurship in English universities Would Christmas be a good trading period for UK small businesses? Number of new businesses breaks record UK sees rise in new business for first time in 18 months All entrepreneurs need is gumption and support! Britain's entrepreneurial future is at risk Explosion in number of UK small business entrepreneurs Is looking for funding the new way for project testing? UK: the best place for new startups? Staying at university wins out over entrepreneurship Decreasing or increasing number of job seekers starting a business? Students Entrepreneurship - Graduates choose to be their own boss What you need first before starting up OTS: first focus on small businesses and tax reliefs M&S consumer market research Lend More: Banks Told Pro Euro Business leaders still want to join the Euro Self funded companies on the rise Business computing upgrade worth £40m Low business lending last year A different approach 19% increase in UK business start ups UK Economy Growth Continues Business Plan: a need or not? Scottish firms ‘positive about year’ Business investment in UK increase at the fastest pace since 1987 Regional Growth Fund Social Business Start up UK’s financial sector show modest pick up Starting your own Business Tax Breaks for Start ups Up North UK 'Open for Business' Budget 2010 and Business Start Ups Government Assistance for Small Business Small Business Challenging the Norm Social Networking Sites Overtake Search Engines in the UK BBC: What would make you start up a business? Financing a Business Start Up Increase in Business Start ups up North Business Insolvency decreasing, light at the end of the tunnel. The Growing Trend of Social Networking Entrepreneurs Relief: A Government Initiative. New Business: High Optimism Real Time Market Research How to grow a business? An Entrepreneurs Journey The need for market research