Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs
This section provides helpful guides and tips on how to find and sell to customers as a small business. Find expert advice on a variety of strategies to attract customers plus ideas on client retention and selling techniques. If you are looking to acquire new business or expand your existing customer base, these pages provide invaluable information to help you on your way. Want to know how to get more clients? Read on…!
No company owner wants to contend with a high rate of product returns, but they are an unfortunate reality for retailers large and small. Here, we look at the problem and what can be done about it.
Finding and selling to customers
Finding and selling to customers
Here, business speaker and author Rob Yeung discusses the keys to gaining business from potential clients.
Finding and selling to customers
Elizabetta Camilleri of SalesGossip discusses how she got to know her customers, how she continues to learn about them every day and the importance of knowing your market.
Finding and selling to customers
Zoe Ripley of ChannelAdvisor presents five online marketplaces to help online retailers venture beyond the safe harbours of eBay and Amazon.
Finding and selling to customers
Here, we look at how discount cards can be a good way of developing a better relationship with your customers.
Finding and selling to customers
James Cox looks at what to do if your market positioning starts to drift in the early stages of business.
Finding and selling to customers
Price cuts are not the only way to get ahead, and, as leading sales expert Andy Preston explains, if you win a customer on price, you are likely to lose a customer on price.
Finding and selling to customers
In this article, sales expert Andy Preston explains the real-life mistakes agencies make when pitching that often cost them valuable business.
Finding and selling to customers
Price cuts are not the only way to get ahead, and, as leading sales expert Andy Preston explains, if you win a customer on price, you are likely to lose a customer on price.
Finding and selling to customers
In this article, sales expert Andy Preston explains the real-life mistakes agencies make when pitching that often cost them valuable business.
Finding and selling to customers
Rik Hellewell discusses how changes to EU distance selling regulations could be problematic for small enterprises.
Finding and selling to customers
Shaun Thomson gives tips on finalising sales to the inexperienced entrepreneur.
Finding and selling to customers
Gideon Lask, founder and CEO of social commerce technology business Buyapowa, explains what’s gone wrong with discounts and the cutting edge alternatives you should be using instead.
Finding and selling to customers
In this article, sales expert Andy Preston talks about why account management is now dead, and what you and your team need to do to replace it.
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Employing & managing staff
In Aviva’s latest SME research*, 57 per cent of employers surveyed agreed that nowadays employees expect benefits to protect against loss of income or earnings. What do you offer your people?
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Business broadband offers a host of advantages over standard domestic connections, here’s why you should be considering an upgrade