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By Real Businesss
Top ten insights from some of the UK's most successful mid-market businesses.

Top ten pearls of wisdom from spambots
By Real Business
A very peculiar type of spammer has been targeting the Real Business website during the past week or so.

Top ten hottest entrepreneurs
By Real Business
During the course of the day, we do a lot of talking. Most of the time it’s about the really important stuff; stuff that matters to you. We discuss how the regulatory regime can stifle entrepreneurial Britain, finding finance when times are tough and we’re constantly brainstorming about ways we can give you what you need.

Top ten business hiccups
By Real Business
Remember the spectacular collapse of Boo.com? Or Unilever's "rotting" cleaning powder? Disasterous. Here's our ten favourite business balls ups.

Top ten entrepreneur quotes
By Real Business
We hear loads of good stuff when we’re talking to entrepreneurs so in honour of those men and women who know just the right thing to say, here is the Real Business Top ten entrepreneur quotes.

Top five most controversial ads
By Kate Pritchard
Remember that ad where an employee is “fish hooked” through his cheek and brutally dragged through the office? Part of the NHS's anti-smoking drive, it was the most complained about advert last year. But it wasn’t the only one to spark a flurry of irate phone calls to The Advertising Standards Authority.

Top ten customer tips
By Real Business
Is one of your customers giving you grief? Well, sack them then. Best-selling author Seth Godin reveals how to handle clients.

Katie Melua's record label storms into the Hot 100
By Kate Pritchard
It’s not only Katie Melua’s fans who are showing their appreciation for the 23 year-old singer songwriter. Her independent record label, Dramatico Entertainment, has seen sales grow 106 per cent to £23.7m, placing it in this year’s Hot 100 list of the country's fastest growing companies.

Hot 100 stars: mortgaged to the hilt
By Kate Pritchard
The entrepreneurial heavyweights in this year’s Hot 100 list aren’t afraid to take risks. Almost two thirds of the country’s fastest-growing companies were started by entrepreneurs using money from a second mortgage on their homes.

Hot 100: financial businesses top UK fast-growth ranking
By Real Business
Thirteen companies from the financial services industry are among the UK’s fastest growing privately owned companies listed in the 2008 Real Business/LDC Hot 100 league table.