Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs
This section takes you through every important aspect of how to run a successful business. It offers expert guides and advice articles on the key elements of business management such as employing staff, finding customers, marketing and sales, pricing, people management, office and home working, business technology and everything else an entrepreneur must tackle in order to succeed.
Changes are occurring in the UK employee benefits market, according to John Dean, managing director of Punter Southall Health and Protection and Cheryl Brennan, director of Corporate Consulting.
Employing & managing staff
Office & home working
Studies show that employees who believe they are being provided with a state-of-the-art work environment are far more productive and creative.
Business Technology
There’s no stopping mobile working, but recent security breaches should keep businesses on their toes, argues Alistair Millar of Altodigital.
Business Technology
Business management
As a small business owner, it is absolutely pertinent to make more money than you’re spending. If you do not, you’re going to run into serious problems and you’ll probably be forced into bankruptcy before you know it.
Business management
Paul Blore, managing director at Netmetix, explores the options available to organisations to avoid disaster.
Office & home working
More than 44 per cent of the UK prefer to work from home rather than head into the office, research finds.
International Business
In this piece, we look at the strategies to help your business prepare for expanding internationally.
Office & home working
More than 44 per cent of the UK prefer to work from home rather than head into the office, research finds.
International Business
In this piece, we look at the strategies to help your business prepare for expanding internationally.
Employing & managing staff
2017 statistics show National Sickie Day is no more, with employees more likely to take Monday off than any other day.
Getting Online
For online lead websites, GDPR will pose a significant change to how they process and handle data, as we explore here.
Business management
As a business slowly grows, one of the ways to achieve higher efficiency for a lower investment is to turn to outsourcing, as we reveal in this piece.
Business Technology
In this piece, Uval Blumenfeld of Wix discusses why, for small businesses, learning to code is a starting point for those who want to keep up with the growing need for digital skills.
Business Loans
Everything you need to know on what small business loans are and what types of loan are available for your business.
Partner content
Hospitality businesses have faced a number of challenges in the last couple of years. Find out what funding and support is available.
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?
Partner content
Business broadband offers a host of advantages over standard domestic connections, here’s why you should be considering an upgrade