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.
News
Almost a fifth of small businesses do not have a carbon monoxide alarm and around the same number are lax on gas safety checks, research finds.
Finding and selling to customers
Aingaran Pillai managed to secure a number of government contracts for his open source software consultancy. Here, he gives tips on how to approach the process of doing business with government.
Buying and selling a company
In this piece, Nick Atkins looks at what the UK’s trading relationship with the EU and rest of the world might look like after Brexit.
Advice
In this piece, we talk to Project M, a mobile game studio based in East London’s Tech City area, operating in both the mobile gaming sector and the investment sector.
Business Technology
There are a few measures your small business can put in place to protect against a ransomware attack on your data. Here, we look at what you can do.
Accounting
What does the evolution of technology and flexible working mean for tax relief for employees? In this piece, we find out.
Business management
Here, Luke Davis discusses the factors to consider for joint business owners when slicing up the the equity pie.
News
Despite the backdrop of political and economic uncertainty surrounding the EU Referendum, small business lending hit an all-time high over the past 12 months.
News
Thousands of UK businesses could be missing out on hiring top talent by not doing enough to promote their company values to prospective candidates, research suggests.
News
The majority of small and medium-sized enteprises (SMEs) are more concerned about competition from emerging markets and higher interest rates than the effects of Brexit and the upcoming US presidential elections, research finds.
News
Candidates on the hunt for new jobs are being warned by recruiters not to cross the line from confidence to arrogance in their interviews.
Advice
In this piece, we look at how to protect your employees by ensuring they are wearing the right clothing and using the right safety equipment.