Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs
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.
Accounting
A customer has refused to pay my invoice in full and has offered a smaller amount for work already done. Is there any simple action I can take to get the rest of the money due?
News
Figures released by the British Bankers Association (BBA) confirm that lending to small businesses is in decline.
Finding and selling to customers
David Strang's boomerang and toy company Wicked Vision has soared since he first launched it ten years ago.