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  • London city fire highlights importance of business insurance

    London City fire highlights importance of business insurance

    by Rosie Beasley

    Three businesses were closed down in the City of London yesterday as fire rampaged through a five storey building. Many more were affected by the fall-out as fire fighters cordoned off the surrounding streets preventing many workers from getting to their offices.

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  • Business advice top 10 from the Simply Business knowledge team.

    Top 5 business advice resources of the week

    by Jasper Martens

    While I'm compiling this selection from our knowledge team, we are still working in a lot of smoke. Due to a fire next to our office block, the whole day was kinda smokey.  But it doesn't put us off making our weekly Top 5. My colleague Rosie has written an article about the importance of business insurance inspired by yesterday's fire.

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  • Andy from Printing.com talks about his online marketing efforts in his printing business

    Online marketing techniques are important for printing companies

    by Jasper Martens

    Andy Clayton manages two stores - Newark and Lincoln - within the Printing.com empire. Jasper fires some questions at Andy about how his two branches stand out from the crowd in an overcrowded printing market and Andy reveals his strategy about opportunities for using social media to communicate with and attract local customers.

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  • Starting a business in a competitive industry

    To vitalise yourself is to make your business healthy

    by Jasper Martens

    After a University degree in Amsterdam and a modelling career, Luuk Imberg didn't choose a standard career path and started his own business, Luuk Health Coaching. Simply Business talked with Luuk about the difficulties starting up his business and his drive to help small businesses and individuals improve their lives.

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Attract more traffic to your website?

by Rosie Beasley

Off line businesses can improve their website traffic.

Within our knowledge team one of the most asked questions is: “How do I attract more customers to my website?” It’s almost become on a level of: “Is there life after death?” In this article I’m not going to answer this question, but I can give some tips to small businesses on how they can attract the right customers to their website without having to spend a large amount of money. So how do you stand out in the crowd?

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