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Ben Lobel
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Ben Lobel was the editor of SmallBusiness.co.uk from 2010 to 2018. He specialises in writing for start-up and scale-up companies in the areas of finance, marketing and HR.
Startup Funding and Grants
Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs
Ben Lobel was the editor of SmallBusiness.co.uk from 2010 to 2018. He specialises in writing for start-up and scale-up companies in the areas of finance, marketing and HR.
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Almost half of Britons would consider setting up their own business, but 68 per cent think it would be too difficult to get funding for their venture, finds research.
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The vast majority of entrepreneurs feel that the Business Bank will not make a significant difference to boosting lending to UK small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
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More and more UK small enterprises are moving online in order to become more competitive, research suggests.
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More than 120 million transactions are lost each year in the UK through shops not accepting card payments, research finds.
Marketing
Marketers should avoid sending emails in the early hours in an attempt to top inboxes for the following morning, a study suggests.
News
One in six people in the UK are operating as an 'online business from home', specifically purchasing goods to resell, or making their own products to sell for profit, finds research.
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Businesses struggling with raising finance have been handed a potential lifeline by the launch of a new initiative put in place to facilitate the flow of cash to needy companies.
News
A third of UK small businesses are infringing copyrights by using unlicensed software, research finds.
Blog
Company owners hail Thatcher as a powerful leader and strong influence on private enterprise.
Startup Funding and Grants
In the first of a new series of Q&As, SmallBusiness.co.uk talks to entrepreneur Guy Mucklow about raising money for his business, which offers web services and software to look up UK and international addresses.
News
Dozens of cuts to red tape are set to come into force in response to issues raised by businesses.
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Nearly half of British retailers believe the US remains the hardest market in which to achieve commercial success despite being the current export destination of choice.