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.
Marketing a small business is not an easy job considering the usual lack of finances and time. There’s no way you can afford to assemble an in-house marketing team and the chances you can swing the help of an agency is just as slim.
Marketing
Business management
A hard Brexit would create £17 billion fall in annual EU export revenues across UK's key manufacturing sectors, new research reveals.
Employing & managing staff
Ever been rejected from a role you desperately wanted? Then it may have been because you committed one of these ten deadly interview sins.
Business management
Standard life guide shows how to ensure you secure your financial future if you’re self-employed – especially with the tax deadline coming up on 5th October.
Employing & managing staff
With footballers Neymar and Cavani getting into a public feud over penalty responsibilities, we take a look at how you can avoid conflict at work.
Small Business Insurance
Alastair Hartrup, Global CEO of Network Critical, discusses how a small business insurance review should include the risk of cybercrime.
Marketing
Consumers would consider choosing a rival brand following a negative experience, with frustration from a missing purchase confirmation emails or e-receipt beginning in seconds.
Employing & managing staff
Here, Heather Ribbans, head of prepaid at AFEX, explains how the introduction of a prepaid programme can maximise the efficiency of your workforce.
Marketing
Consumers would consider choosing a rival brand following a negative experience, with frustration from a missing purchase confirmation emails or e-receipt beginning in seconds.
Employing & managing staff
Here, Heather Ribbans, head of prepaid at AFEX, explains how the introduction of a prepaid programme can maximise the efficiency of your workforce.
Employing & managing staff
In this article, we take a look at the reasons staff are often not as invested or motivated as the owner or CEO of a business.
Marketing
The digital marketing landscape has made it possible for anyone to earn a living from working at home. There are various ways of generating online income, and one of the most effective and quickest ways to do so is through affiliate marketing.
Business Technology
New research shows that UK businesses are increasingly willing to adopt cutting edge fintech options, such as cryptocurrencies or cloud finances.
Business Technology
Here, Nolan Braterman from Frontier Voice and Data, explains the benefits of businesses using two internet connections.
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