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BusinessZone.co.uk has been designed with the small business owner in mind.

We listened to your feedback (and will continue to do so!) to create a website that:

• addresses the key issues facing small business, including:
  • Marketing & PR
  • Sales
  • Finances
  • Technology
  • Staff

• gives an overview of the wider business world, including:
  • Regulation
  • Business trends
  • Business profiles

• adds a little welcome distraction through business lifestyle content
   
• encourages interaction, problem solving and knowledge sharing between members through:
  • Any Answers
  • Blogs
  • Discussion groups

• And don’t forget our twice-weekly email bulletins, edited by Dan Martin:
  • Wednesday’s ‘Tips & Tools’ gives practical business advice and ideas
  • Friday’s ‘Insider’ takes a look at business trends, movers and shakers, and highlights from UK Business Forums.

Register for your FREE BusinessZone.co.uk account now.

New features – read on!

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Control panel

One of the first things you’ll notice on the homepage is the control panel, positioned at the top right hand side of the page. It’s always on hand to give you access to commonly used features such as:

• editing your profile
• managing your email subscriptions
• private messages
• content alerts
• favourites library

Here is a quick tour of those new features:

Private messages

BusinessZone.co.uk gives you a private message inbox to contact and keep in touch with other members, organise messages into folders, and keep track of your contacts – without having to reveal your email address.

Content alerts

If you find an article or discussion that you’d like to be keep track of, you can add it to your content alerts and you’ll be notified of any new content added to the website. You can choose to receive these alerts hourly, daily or weekly.

Public profile

Once you’ve registered, you can choose to fill out your public profile. This allows other members to learn more about you and your business (at your discretion!), and also to connect with you via social networking sites such as LinkedIn and Twitter.

Your public profile can also display your company logo, the comments that you’ve made on the site, the articles or blogs that you’ve published, and which discussion groups you belong to.

You can also choose to allow other members to send you an email – but using our secure contact form that doesn’t reveal your email address.

Discussion groups

We have also introduced ‘discussion groups’, allowing you to set up your own area on BusinessZone.co.uk for specific industry sectors, business topics, campaigns, or projects. Groups can be open, where new members can join freely, or private, where members join on an invitation-only basis and are approved by the group owner.

Discussion groups allow you to write your own articles, send newsletters to the group members, and set up your own forums – essentially, become a micro-publisher on your own specialist topics.

As a member of a group, you can control whether you receive updates and newsletters from the group owner.

Subscriptions

BusinessZone.co.uk publishes two email bulletins every week, along with occasional supplements on specific business topics. We also have a new events & continuing professional development (CPD) bulletin, letting you know about courses, exhibitions and seminars that you might find of interest.

Blog

If you fancy showing the world your sagely view on business, or simply want to keep people up to date with how your company is doing, you can start blogging as soon as you create your free BusinessZone.co.uk account.

Library

Whenever you find an article that you’d like to keep for reference, simply add it to your library. You can add and remove articles whenever you like, and your control panel keeps a handy list of your favourites.

Any Answers

This is a version of a forum specifically for answering business questions, where other BusinessZone.co.uk members can contribute their replies, and you can choose and highlight what you consider to be the best one.

Please let us know what you think!

We hope that you like the new look BusinessZone.co.uk, and we’d very much welcome your thoughts and any ideas for improvement. Do feel free to drop us a line at marketing@siftmedia.co.uk.

Kind regards,

Darren Falkingham
Head of Marketing