FORGET innovative ideas, visionary leadership or strategic thinking - the secret of success for the UK's 3.8 million small businesses is good, old-fashioned hard work.
According to a small business survey from business finance firm Bibby Factors Manchester, more than three-quarters of owners and managers believe the key to their business success is, quite simply, hard graft.
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