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.
Our business is picking up, however we still wish to be cautious with pay increases and envisage freezing wages this year. Are there any low-cost incentives that will help us maintain morale and assist with retaining staff?
Employing & managing staff
Finding and selling to customers
Shaun Thomson gives tips on finalising sales to the inexperienced entrepreneur.
Finding and selling to customers
Gideon Lask, founder and CEO of social commerce technology business Buyapowa, explains what’s gone wrong with discounts and the cutting edge alternatives you should be using instead.
Office & home working
How virtual offices meet the demands of smaller businesses.
Finding and selling to customers
In this article, sales expert Andy Preston talks about why account management is now dead, and what you and your team need to do to replace it.
Marketing
The worlds of SEO, content marketing and PR are learning from each other - and these skills have been instrumental in the ongoing success and development of each sector, says Kath Dawson.
Employing & managing staff
Take up Zumba or learn to unicycle? Preparing for auto-enrolment is a New Year’s resolution that your business will thank you for.
Employing & managing staff
Taking on the right employees first time around can avoid recruitment issues later down the line. Here, Kate Russell discusses what to remember when hiring.
Employing & managing staff
Take up Zumba or learn to unicycle? Preparing for auto-enrolment is a New Year’s resolution that your business will thank you for.
Employing & managing staff
Taking on the right employees first time around can avoid recruitment issues later down the line. Here, Kate Russell discusses what to remember when hiring.
Productivity Zone
HR expert and motivational speaker Alan Price discusses how entrepreneurs can encourage business ideas by culling workplace distractions and maximising their own productivity.
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.
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?