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.
Accidents can have damaging consequences for all parties involved. Here, Chris Slater, head of insurance at online comparator SimplyBusiness.co.uk, provides a guide to business insurance cover.
Small Business Insurance
Legal advice
If you have a claim to make against another business or sole-trader, you may need to go through the small claims process. SmallBusiness.co.uk tells you how to start the process.
Legal advice
As new legislation this month will increase the penalties for breaches of health and safety regulations, a risk assessment health check could prevent your small business getting seriously injured.
Small Business Insurance
Claims made against SMEs can be particularly damaging. Here SmalllBusiness.co.uk and Chris Slater, head of insurance at online business insurance comparator SimplyBusiness.co.uk, offer some top tips to ensure you have adequate public liability insurance.
Legal advice
It's a grim fact that up to 80 per cent of new businesses launched each year fail, most within the first five years of operation. Once cash flow has dried up and creditors start knocking on the door, the most likely action taken by UK entrepreneurs is to declare bankruptcy.
Business management
Ex-SAS man and famed author Andy McNab underwent a covert operation in Iraq, did a stint in an Iraqi gaol and is wanted by terrorist organisations.
Business management
Since food writer Lucinda Bruce-Gardyne launched gluten-free bread Genius last year, she's carved out a healthy slice of the market.
Employing & managing staff
Remove the outer layer of fluff from theories on staff engagement and you're left with a way to better manage your employees and improve operational efficiency.
Business management
Since food writer Lucinda Bruce-Gardyne launched gluten-free bread Genius last year, she's carved out a healthy slice of the market.
Employing & managing staff
Remove the outer layer of fluff from theories on staff engagement and you're left with a way to better manage your employees and improve operational efficiency.
Employing & managing staff
Fit notes are set to replace sick notes. Neeta Laing, head of employment law at Lewis Hymanson Small, explains how the system will work.
Employing & managing staff
If waiting to reduce staff overheads is something you can no longer afford to delay, short-time working could be a way to save money without letting employees go.
Employing & managing staff
What are the sick leave entitlements for a part-time employee who has been signed off work due to back problems?
Marketing
As unlikely as it may seem, Hotel Chocolat's co-founder Angus Thirlwell and John Griffin, the doyen of London minicab firm Addison Lee, have a great deal in common - they both achieved success from rebranding.
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