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Need some start up inspiration? These Dragons' Den success stories show how to make a start up business a success with a little funding and a lot of work.

Keep customers coming back with our guide to developing and retaining your best customers for less through customer service, loyalty schemes and marketing.

Negotiation is part and parcel of running a company. Learn to negotiate with clients, staff, suppliers and more with our top 10 negotiation tactics.

Learn how many customers your start up business is likely to reach by calculating market size, and the total addressable market.

As an SME business owner in any industry, tackling legal issues properly and guarding against them could potentially save you thousands of pounds a year.

Seasonal peaks can offer brands a great chance to grow awareness and sales, especially if you’re a retailer. Here are our tips to make the most of them!

When building a business, you may become embroiled in disputes with clients, suppliers or employees. Here's how to avoid the costly risk going to court.

Get to grips with your workplace pension auto enrolment responsibilities to ensure your small or start up business doesn’t fall foul of the law.

A wholesaler is a vital part of the supply chain for many businesses. Here’s how to choose the best wholesaler for your business.

Find out what your customers really want with our guide to how Market research can save you from making costly mistakes when launching your new business.

Read our guide on six market research examples your business can use to test your business idea, find customers, and create new products.

Discover the customer satisfaction strategies and techniques you can use to measure your customer satisfaction scores to help keep customers happy.

Discover what your customers think about your business, goods and services with our guide to creating a customer survey and the questions to include.

Every business gets difficult customers but our guide will help you make sure you can keep customers happy with great customer service and problem solving.

Considering setting up your own business? Take a look at our list of 6 ways to spend your Start Up Loan to help kickstart your business.

Get your products online with our step-by-step guide for start up businesses on setting up and selling products on Amazon Marketplace.

How to set up a business blog and how to write blogging content that helps market your start up as part of your marketing activity.

Transform your business or product idea into commercial reality with our guide to setting up a product development process.