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.
Aingaran Pillai managed to secure a number of government contracts for his open source software consultancy. Here, he gives tips on how to approach the process of doing business with government.
Finding and selling to customers
Buying and selling a company
In this piece, Nick Atkins looks at what the UK’s trading relationship with the EU and rest of the world might look like after Brexit.
Business Technology
Here, Andy Hinxman discusses how using outdated technology can damage your business in a variety of ways.
Business Technology
There are a few measures your small business can put in place to protect against a ransomware attack on your data. Here, we look at what you can do.
Business management
Here, Luke Davis discusses the factors to consider for joint business owners when slicing up the the equity pie.
Office & home working
Employees are opting to head down the freelance path, accepting ‘gigs’ as and when they come. But what does this gig economy mean for the SME landscape?
Business management
Paul Black discusses how the business landscape might be mapped out during and after the Brexit process.
Employing & managing staff
Here Russ Piper, CEO of Sovereign Health Care, goes back to basics to cover everything you need to know to implement a health cash plan in your business.
Business management
Paul Black discusses how the business landscape might be mapped out during and after the Brexit process.
Employing & managing staff
Here Russ Piper, CEO of Sovereign Health Care, goes back to basics to cover everything you need to know to implement a health cash plan in your business.
Employing & managing staff
In this piece, we look at the business owners that have taken on younger members of staff and assess the benefits to a small organisation.
Business Technology
The average UK office worker wastes at least 21 days each year due to inefficient or slow technology, longer than many people’s paid annual leave, research finds.
Business Technology
Here, productivity expert and author Graham Allcott discusses the smart way for businesses to use email.
Employing & managing staff
In the wake of Sports Direct ditching zero hours contracts, we look at what using zero hours contracts means for companies.
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