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Business articles
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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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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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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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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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This week
Attract more traffic to your website?
by Rosie Beasley
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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