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…!
Bidding for government work can be a lengthy and costly process, and many smaller businesses don’t have the same resources as larger companies to put together winning bids. Here, Martin Reed explores the issue.
Finding and selling to customers
Finding and selling to customers
Focusing on the difficulties faced by major retail businesses means missing the wider picture on how the sector is evolving, argues Ambreen Khasru.
Finding and selling to customers
Here are some best practices for providing excellent customer support to your e-commerce customers.
Finding and selling to customers
In this article, we provide five pointers for creating market awareness for your sales cycle.
Finding and selling to customers
Here, we look at five important ways that you can improve the conversion rate of your Magento site.
Finding and selling to customers
Here, we take a look at how how e-commerce businesses can improve their customer support through utilising omni-channel support, embracing social media and mobile messaging, providing self-service and the use of video.
Finding and selling to customers
Here, we look at four key tips for harnessing your negotiation skills to secure your sales pipeline.
Finding and selling to customers
Here, Ian Blackburn, managing director of Hidepark Leather, explores the idea of seeing past audience stereotypes and using data and industry insight to tap into the new trends to improve sales and marketing efforts.
Finding and selling to customers
Here, we look at four key tips for harnessing your negotiation skills to secure your sales pipeline.
Finding and selling to customers
Here, Ian Blackburn, managing director of Hidepark Leather, explores the idea of seeing past audience stereotypes and using data and industry insight to tap into the new trends to improve sales and marketing efforts.
Finding and selling to customers
Here's why you should not disregard the benefits of tools like loyalty programmes in your business.
Finding and selling to customers
Here, we give a handful of tips to make e-commerce returns easier for customers, and reveal why this is an important consideration.
Finding and selling to customers
Investment in new innovation and technologies, such as AR and VR, will reform and shape the retail world in 2018.
Finding and selling to customers
Karen Woodhead, director of marketing for Huthwaite International, reveals how organisations should future proof their businesses to secure the next customer.
Partner content
Business broadband offers a host of advantages over standard domestic connections, here’s why you should be considering an upgrade
Partner content
As with any supplier, it’s important to do your research and ask important questions before you select a broadband provider for your business. But what are the must-have things you should take into consideration?
Business Technology
Landlines as we know them will be scrapped in 2027 – along with a raft of upcoming business changes. Here's how to ensure your communications set-up is fit for whatever the future brings
Business Loans
Everything you need to know on what small business loans are and what types of loan are available for your business.