About

Anna is Senior Reporter, covering topics affecting SMEs such as grant funding, managing employees and the day-to-day running of a business.

Finding and selling to customers

5 tips to boost your Black Friday SEO

The Audit Lab shares five tips to strengthen your Black Friday SEO, along with some examples to show you how it's done

News

Mary Portas calls for more Government help to save high street firms

Retail guru Mary Portas wants the Government to support businesses through the cost of doing business crisis

Finding and selling to customers

What alternatives are there to Royal Mail?

Some postal workers are on strike during Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Here are alternatives to Royal Mail to help see your business through

Marketing

The top 10 social media trends for 2023

A report into social media trends shows what is up and coming for 2023. Do you agree with the top 10 predictions?

News

Help to Grow may be axed by Government

The Government is eyeing cuts to the troubled Help to Grow scheme, created to help small businesses improve operations

Podcasts

Ollie Ollerton: ‘I locked myself in the house for 3 months to change who I was’

In this episode of Small Business Snippets, Anna Jordan meets Ollie Ollerton, entrepreneur and star of SAS: Who Dares Wins

Running a Business

Jessica Ennis Hill – what I’ve learned from my start-up business

Entrepreneur and former Olympic heptathlete, Jessica Ennis Hill, speaks to Sifted Summit 2022 about her start-up firm, Jennis

Business management

Steven Bartlett shares 5 tips for entrepreneurs

Steven Bartlett, entrepreneur and the latest Dragon to enter Dragons' Den, gives us some insights into how he runs his businesses

News

What the economic crisis means for small businesses

Experts predict that the current economic crisis will have a significant impact on small businesses – but will it all be negative?

News

Truss to review visa schemes to ease labour shortages

PM Liz Truss wants to review visa conditions to make it easier to recruit key roles, such as broadband engineers

News

Mini Budget – what it means for small businesses

Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng announces raft of measures to boost business growth, including scrapping planned corporation tax and National Insurance rises, raising the limit on Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme investment, and creating low-tax investment zones to encourage new industry

Finding and selling to customers

Why businesses should go cashless: pros and cons

Some businesses are opting to switch to cashless and customers have mixed feelings. Is it right for you? We look at the pros and cons.