Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs
Business management
There are smaller companies in the UK which are increasing sales and improving margins. SmallBusiness.co.uk finds out how they're making it happen.
Business Technology
Every business needs to move with the times if it wants to stay competitive. Daniel Puddick, managing director of the Sunglasses Shop, says the technology that transformed his business was a stock management system.
Marketing
In a world of digital entertainment, viewers now have an invaluable source of knowledge at their fingertips.
Employing & managing staff
Employers may do well to put any changes to their pensions schemes on hold until a decision is made this autumn.
Marketing
Social media like Twitter and Facebook may be easy to use, but it takes time and effort to make them commercially worthwhile for a business.
Accounting
The fear of losing business is stopping many SMEs from chasing bad debt.
Blog
Not so long ago a government report concluded that two-thirds of employers felt that 16-year old school leavers were well prepared for work.
Business management
Young buck Suleman Sacranie dropped out of university to launch online discount operator 99p Shopper in July and already has dreams of floating the company.
News
More than one in five Britons believe that they have a business plan that will make them millionaires.
Marketing
What can small businesses learn from larger enterprises that have embraced social networking?
Startup Funding and Grants
Rose Lewis, a partner at financial consultancy Pembridge Partners, explains the various financial alternatives for the intrepid small business owner when a bank decides to play hardball.
Business management
Sara Pomfret set up her home furnishing business, Raines &Willow, earlier this year with her father, David Brown. It's already making a profit.