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.
Chancellor Sajid Javid’s pledge to increase minimum wage to £10.50 an hour seen as unrealistic for small businesses already suffering because of rising costs
Employing & managing staff
Employing & managing staff
Step-by-step guide to what happens if you are unfortunate enough to be taken to an employment tribunal
Marketing
What should you be focusing your press releases on this October? Simran Ghata-Aura of Journolink shares her ideas.
Legal advice
Small businesses may be overconfident they are Brexit ready when it comes to GDPR compliance, says Ian Osborne. He offers 5 tips to keep your SME within the law.
Business management
Labour has pledged to make a four-day working week the norm within ten years. We asked small business owners what they think of the idea.
Getting Online
Your 6-point plan to designing and building a business website – from going mobile first through to launching a blog and selling online.
Business Technology
If your small business’s payments system is not PCI compliant, you could find yourself blocked from taking card payments altogether, warns Geoff Forsyth
Employing & managing staff
Not keeping up to date with health and safety can not only be harmful to your staff but can also be hugely damaging to your business. Outsourcing health and safety takes away the biggest headache for many small businesses
Business Technology
If your small business’s payments system is not PCI compliant, you could find yourself blocked from taking card payments altogether, warns Geoff Forsyth
Employing & managing staff
Not keeping up to date with health and safety can not only be harmful to your staff but can also be hugely damaging to your business. Outsourcing health and safety takes away the biggest headache for many small businesses
Buying and selling a company
In partnership with BusinessesForSale.com, we look at the questions you should be asking when you're selling your business.
Getting Online
We've partnered with The UK Domain to tell you what you should do to make your business website GDPR compliant.
Business management
Paul Yeomans of the University of Nottingham explains what Knowledge Transfer Partnerships are and how they work.
Marketing
Simran Ghata-Aura of Journolink suggests PR opportunities for small businesses in the early days of the new school term.
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