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.
When it comes to taking on staff, there are some key considerations for a small business owner to make, from how a candidate's skills stack up to whether they would fit with the company culture. Here, we look at what to bear in mind.
Employing & managing staff
Legal advice
Making money on Airbnb is not as simple as it may seem. You must ensure you adhere to a range of rules and regulations, as Ben Gurluk discusses here.
Business Technology
Manish Sablok looks at what SMEs need to keep up with large enterprises and how hybrid is fast emerging as the favoured solution.
Legal advice
Vanessa Crawley looks into what Brussels’ new proposals on bankruptcy protection will mean for small businesses in the UK.
Business Technology
In this piece we look at how you can better structure your online activity as a small business.
Business Technology
Ben Gladstone highlights the dangers of SMEs using manual spreadsheets for critical business processes.
Business management
Ben Houghton looks at how you can learn from the success of the GB Olympic team in applying its marginal gains strategy to your business.
Marketing
Here, we look at how exhibitions can be beneficial for your business.
Business management
Ben Houghton looks at how you can learn from the success of the GB Olympic team in applying its marginal gains strategy to your business.
Marketing
Here, we look at how exhibitions can be beneficial for your business.
Business Technology
The next few years will see widespread adoption of a new ‘trust economy’, where renting is replaced with swapping one free service for another, argues Andy Peck.
Business management
Jeremy Torz gives a few pointers on successfully scaling a craft business in the right way.
Marketing
In this piece in association with Vistaprint, we look at how a more creative approach to marketing can mean vital exposure for your business.
Business Technology
SMEs are in for a great deal of work in order to set up an effective security programme, argues Tom Rowley.
Partner content
In case you were in any doubt, here are five key benefits of switching your business bank account – and how to make the switch.
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?