BUSINESS Link is making it easier for the region's businesses to grow and really drive the North-East economy.

With a range of guides on strategies for growth, our website aims to help the region's businesses find ways to expand their operations, maximise profits and impact on their markets.

Bringing together information on the various ways to boost your business, the grow your business section of the Business Link website is where small businesses can find the guides and tools they need to develop their products, services and enterprises.

Having just updated our information and added guides and tools, we plan to help the region's businesses find ways to broaden their horizons, whether that's through expansion, product development or innovation.

If you are choosing whether to grow, you're looking to get the right expert support for growth, or working out how to meet the challenges of growing a business, we have compiled a range of information and advice that can help growing businesses to prosper.

We also have guidance on how to increase your market share, as well as how to increase your profitability and exploit your ideas.

Our guides on successful entrepreneurship, strategic planning and how to measure performance and set targets will give you further tools and tips to help build a bigger and brighter business.

Grow your own business is just one of the features on the enhanced Business Link website, which also includes other tools and userfriendly guides on financing a growth strategy, managing risk, developing your management team and implementing change management.

Designed to help the region's businesses develop and grow, the Business Link website covers a range of handy, user-friendly tools and practical advice that can be accessed at the touch of a button, so you don't even have to pick up the phone or leave the comfort of your home or office.

The website enables you to access key information 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

However, if you would like to discuss any business issue with one of our team, we're always at end of the phone. Businesses can also sign up for email alerts to ensure they remain a step ahead and fully informed on opportunities for growth.

Business Link's substantial team of expert brokers operate across the region in local access points and on a mobile basis.

* For more information, visit www.busi nesslinknortheast.co.uk or call 0845-600-90- 06.