Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs
Office & home working
SmallBusiness.co.uk's Top Ten Business Property Tips offer invaluable advice on your business' property needs, providing hints on finding the ideal location, utilising your office space and negotiating deals.
Legal advice
Running a business will present you with many unexpected legal considerations; smallbusiness.co.uk's Top Ten Legal Tips help to guide you through the potential legislative minefield.
Accounting
No one likes paying tax, least of all small business owners, so here are some tips for ways to reduce your tax bill or claim back tax already paid.
Office & home working
When deciding what sort of property is best to house your business, there are a plethora of issues to consider. This list brings together all the business premises questions you need to think about into one place.
Finding and selling to customers
What price you charge is a tricky proposition. Should you go for dirt cheap or reassuringly expensive? This short guide will help.
Advice
When first setting up a business there are many issues to consider, not least what whether to register as a company or not.
Small Business Banking
Business owners are increasingly using personal credit cards to fund their businesses, particularly when it comes to major purchases such as vehicles and equipment.
Business Technology
Most businesses are aware of the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA), which aims to stop discrimination faced by disabled people in accessing a company's goods or services, but many don't realise that accessibility also applies to their websites.
News
SMEs are lagging behind their bigger brethren when it comes to knowledge of the Competition Act and how it could benefit them, according to the Office of Fair Trading (OFT).
News
Already known for helping young people, The Prince's Trust has this year launched the Women Working campaign to help disadvantaged young women turn their lives around, including helping them starting their own businesses.
News
A survey by employment law specialists ELAS shows that more than four-fifths of owner/managers would never utter Sir Alan Sugar's dramatic catchphrase, 'you're fired'.
Accounting
More than two-fifths of small businesses are offering credit to new customers without checking their creditworthiness, leaving themselves open to bad debts.