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Top Tips for Saving Money When Starting a Business

Starting a business can be expensive work but while you’re trying to start a new business, it’s important to be as frugal as you can and to try to keep the deficit between in-goings and out-goings high. Here are a few ways you can do that. Run your business from home There’s no need to […]

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How to Develop a B2B Marketing Strategy

There are, as you may know, many different kinds of marketing but the easiest way to define the styles is in to two distinct categories; B2C (business to consumer) and B2B (business to business). And depending on whether you’re selling to a business or a consumer, you have to approach the two very differently. If […]

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4 Lead Generation Methods That Won’t Break the Bank

The marketing industry in the UK is huge and at a net worth of £21.4 billion, it’s no surprise that it’s the largest in Europe and the fourth largest in the world. And of course, for an industry to be worth that much, it means a LOT of people are pumping in a LOT of […]

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How to Start a Startup

They say a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. But in the world of starting your own business, just putting one foot in front of the other can seem like a mammoth task. The clue may be in the name but how exactly do you start a startup? The Idea First […]

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The Psychology of Marketing

Being a great marketer or sales person is primarily about understanding how and why people think and act the way they do. It’s a role that combines both a creative intuition with the logical half of the brain, responsible for understanding psychology and human behaviour. In order to sell successfully to consumers, a business must […]

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What is Native Advertising?

It might be a term that you’ve heard floating around but do you actually know what it means? And more importantly, do you know how to utilise it? Well, in a nutshell, native advertising is the use of online paid ads that match the look, feel and function of the platform on which they appear. […]

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8 Sales & Marketing Tips for Startups

If you’re entering the world of business but don’t know the first thing about the world of marketing then never fear because we’ve got you covered. The all encompassing term of marketing simply refers to how you sell and promote yourself and how, as an effect, you are seen in the eyes of your customers. […]

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How to Design a Successful Marketing Email

Email marketing has for a long time been one of the most popular tools in the business. Unlike forms such as social media, you can definitively measure how many people your message is going to, being seen by, and working on. But the average person now receives 111 consumer emails per day – that’s not […]

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Why Your Website Should Have a Blog

In a content-driven landscape, it’s not enough to just develop a successful e-commerce website. Customers want to read things, gain tips and information and learn new things. So in addition to your website, it’s good business acumen to have a blog too. For starters, a blog is a humanising tool. When hidden behind the wall […]

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5 Situations That Will Make You Glad To Have Business Insurance

When you start a small business, you have enough to worry about from sourcing funding to hiring staff. So why add the unnecessary stress of living a risky, insurance-free life? Many people starting new businesses have chosen to forgo business insurance in the interest of saving a few pennies but if something goes wrong then […]