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.
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.
Office & home working
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 Technology
Looking at the changing ways personal finance is evolving and how this affects UK small companies.
Finding and selling to customers
Here's how to enhance your internet shopping experience.
Business Technology
Looking at the changing ways personal finance is evolving and how this affects UK small companies.
Finding and selling to customers
Here's how to enhance your internet shopping experience.
Legal advice
David Cliff discusses why it may be easier for a business to settle disputes via mediation before looking at more severe approaches.
Marketing
Marketing can be expensive for a small business, so getting the best bang for your buck is essential. Here, James Cox reveals some typical ways of blowing the budget.
Business Technology
Kath Dawson discusses the development of SEO and what businesses need to do to increase traffic on their website.
Employing & managing staff
Phil Mitchell discusses the ways in which a small business can give its staff share options.
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?