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.
HR expert and motivational speaker Alan Price discusses how entrepreneurs can encourage business ideas by culling workplace distractions and maximising their own productivity.
Productivity Zone
Employing & managing staff
How do I get my employees to benefit from appraisals, to better themselves and improve productivity?
Business management
Deborah Done, director at employment law consultancy Peninsula, discusses how to make the transition from one-man band to successfully overseeing a team.
Finding and selling to customers
Here are some ways in which giving away free samples and tidbits of your company offering can reap rewards.
Business Technology
Matthew Sammon, of intellectual property services company Marks & Clerk, discusses the advent of generic top-level domains and their relevance to small companies.
Business Technology
Matt Pierce of TechSmith discusses the rise of conducting staff training operations through mobile devices.
Office & home working
In this piece, brought to you in association with .co.uk, the number one domain for British business, we explain how utilising your website and working remotely, or employing staff that do, could help improve efficiency and save your business money.
Legal advice
Adrian Hoggarth explores how seemingly harmless staff banter can escalate into a legal problem.
Office & home working
In this piece, brought to you in association with .co.uk, the number one domain for British business, we explain how utilising your website and working remotely, or employing staff that do, could help improve efficiency and save your business money.
Legal advice
Adrian Hoggarth explores how seemingly harmless staff banter can escalate into a legal problem.
Office & home working
Here, Sophie Turton looks at how your corporate culture sets you apart and the impact that ignoring it can have on the success of your business.
Business Technology
In this piece, brought to you in association with .co.uk, the number one domain for British business, SmallBusiness.co.uk looks at the key things to consider when producing your company website.
Legal advice
Tom Lingard presents the legal considerations early-stage tech companies need to be mindful of when starting out.
Finding and selling to customers
Time is money, and chasing lost causes can cost a small company dearly. Phil Rothwell gives some tips on breaking free of dead-end prospects.
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