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Welcome to RealBusiness.co.uk, the online incarnation of the award-winning Real Business magazine.

Over 11 years, Real Business magazine has built a reputation for providing high-quality editorial to a targeted business audience of entrepreneurs and owner-directors. That same team has launched the new-look RealBusiness.co.uk, embracing the best of Web 2.0 with our Daily Insights, News Blog, Weekly Newsletter, Discussion Forum, and downloadable video and audio from superstar entrepreneurs and business leaders.

Our aim is to be the leading provider of news, comment and analysis for, and about, UK SMEs; and the hub of an online business community.

“Real Business is inspiring, practical and thoroughly entertaining” –

Edward Perry, MD of Cook

First launched in September 2006, RealBusiness.co.uk attracts more than 40,000 unique users per month. We continue to enjoy monthly traffic growth. This traffic has mainly been generated through our portfolio of titles (such as European private equity title Real Deals), the attendee lists from leading business events and our relationship with key business organisations such as the CBI, CIMA, BSI etc.

Our audience:

(As at March 8, 2007)

% of audience by job title

Chairman/president 2 %

Chief executive 6 %

Managing director 47 %

Owner/proprietor 14 %

Partner 2 %

Sales/marketing director 6 %

Finance director 13 %

Other 10 %

“What a great magazine you produce – it is the one business magazine I read from cover to cover and pass on to others” –Melanie Pursglove, MD, Vintage Paint Co

RealBusiness.co.uk can carry:

Email Marketing. Through our portfolio of magazines and our contract relationship with bodies such as the CBI, BSI, CIMA etc. we have an extensive list of senior management and owners of UK businesses. We have regular email newsletters which carry advertising and can create and distribute bespoke emails for advertisers.

Technical specifications:

Leaderboard 728 X 90 pix

Button 120 X 60 pix

Skyscraper 120 X 600 pix

MPU 300 X 250 pix

To discuss advertising opportunities, check inventory availability or to request a Real Business magazine media pack, please contact: Omar Shah, omar@realbusiness.co.uk +44 (0)207 368 7153

BUSINESS NEWS >>

Dragon Peter Jones says, "Clone me!"

By Rebecca Burn-Callander - July 03, 2009 11:28am GMT

Real Business spent an eventful cab ride with Dragons' Den's tallest investor earlier this week. Here's what he had to say about the recession, James Caan, his search for Peter Jones lookalikes and, most importantly, the next series of Dragons' Den.

Businesses to run in a recession: part three

By Rebecca Burn-Callander - July 02, 2009 4:43pm GMT

Even in a recession, a good entrepreneur is always on the look-out for the next hot spot. Don’t wait around for the upturn. These are the businesses you want to be in now.

Access takes another step towards sales target

By Catherine Woods - July 02, 2009 4:33pm GMT

Access founder Alistair O’Reilly has embarked on a “brand elevation” exercise as he aims to grow turnover at his consulting and software company to £100m.

Tech entrepreneur: "The banks won't lend you an umbrella when it rains"

By Rebecca Burn-Callander - July 02, 2009 4:22pm GMT

At a roundtable hosted by Dell this morning, Real Business heard three technology entrepreneurs talk about the challenges of growing a business during the recession. People aren't the problem, they say. It's the mindset of banks and other financial institutions that needs to change if we're to come out of recession.

Government fund provides a "timely injection of capital"

By Catherine Woods - July 02, 2009 4:06pm GMT

Octopus Ventures, which invests in entrepreneurial businesses, has welcomed the governments’ proposed £1bn innovation fund, saying it will support entrepreneurialism.

Brochures on Saving and investing

BUSINESS COMMENT >>

The first Apprentice wedding!

By Catherine Woods - July 03, 2009 2:35pm GMT

Well, well, well, look who’s engaged.

Sir Alan Sugar: "You're hired!"

By Rebecca Burn-Callander - July 01, 2009 1:12pm GMT

Great piece by The Telegraph's Richard Tyler today about the confirmed appointment of Sir Alan Sugar to the post of enterprise tsar. "A tentative date of July 20th has been pencilled in for his hairiness to don the rabbit fur," he says.

Pre-stained underwear: the next big thing?

By Rebecca Burn-Callander - June 22, 2009 2:54pm GMT

That's right. "Pre-stained". Suspend your disbelief for a moment. Canadian entrepreneur Philip Watson founded Easy Tiger Corp to peddle underwear that has been - ahem - ready-soiled, shall we say. And he reckons these nasty knickers will be a surefire hit with "the dudes".

It can only be... the Friday Funnies

By Rebecca Burn-Callander - June 12, 2009 12:16pm GMT

As swine flu hits the headlines for the second time, the swine flu jokes are just pouring in! Laugh till you oink, readers.

Jokes. Jokes. Jokes.

By Rebecca Burn-Callander - June 05, 2009 12:14pm GMT

Further to popular demand, this week we're devoting a whole section of our jokes blog to our hapless prime minister, Gordon Brown.

Business Comment 

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