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.
SmallBusiness.co.uk, in association with UPS, looks at what factors contribute to an effective e-commerce offering, from website management to distribution of product.
Export & Import
Business management
Tom Lingard discusses the measures you can take to deal with unfair comments about your business online.
Employing & managing staff
New employment rules will mean the right to request flexible working will be extended to all employees with 26 weeks service from June 30th.
Business Technology
Consumer mobile VoIP services like Skype, Viber, Vyke and WhatsApp are enjoying accelerating growth. Mark Egginton, sales and marketing director from Vyke, investigates why enterprise is feeling left out.
Marketing
Conrad Ford, managing director of Funding Options, looks at some internet and social media marketing methods you might use as a small business.
Employing & managing staff
With the cost of sick leave absence escalating, Neil Atkinson discusses how to address the problem in six steps.
Finding and selling to customers
Rik Hellewell discusses how changes to EU distance selling regulations could be problematic for small enterprises.
Employing & managing staff
Are there any new HR and employment laws that I should be aware of as a small business owner?
Finding and selling to customers
Rik Hellewell discusses how changes to EU distance selling regulations could be problematic for small enterprises.
Employing & managing staff
Are there any new HR and employment laws that I should be aware of as a small business owner?
Legal advice
Tom Lingard discusses the new Defamation Act and how it impacts on what businesses can post online.
Business management
Business risk specialist Darren Hickman of ComplianceAssist gives advice on how to keep your business financially secure.
Business management
In this article, Jesper Frederiksen shares his advice on how to manage your business as it grows from acorn to oak tree to forest.
Legal advice
What happens when a staff member crosses the line and needs to have their contract terminated?
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