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.
Reward Gateway, has partnered with financial expert and founder of MoneyMagpie, Jasmine Birtles, to uncover insights into the financial worries of the UK workforce, finding most suffer from stress at work.
Employing & managing staff
Employing & managing staff
Reports show that by 2020 millennials will make up a third of the global workforce. Instant Offices take a look into what members of this digital generation really look for in a career.
Business Technology
Uwe Weiss, CEO at Blue Yonder, argues that retailers should increase staffing levels on the shop floor to provide a more responsive, friendly and bespoke customer service, and let the AI machines take care of the manual time-consuming processes.
Business management
Is your business having money trouble? Staying on budget when growing can be tricky. Here, we take a look at how you can stay on budget.
Business Technology
Business software is incredibly important to the smooth running of any business. We run through five different types of business software to help you.
Marketing
Out-of-home advertising supplier Clear Channel Direct have a few tips for you to keep in mind when considering outdoor advertising for your business.
Finding and selling to customers
Here, Ian Blackburn, managing director of Hidepark Leather, explores the idea of seeing past audience stereotypes and using data and industry insight to tap into the new trends to improve sales and marketing efforts.
Business Technology
Here, Simon Willies, head of commercial for Currys PC World Business, explains why you should purge the paper and step into a paperless office this year.
Finding and selling to customers
Here, Ian Blackburn, managing director of Hidepark Leather, explores the idea of seeing past audience stereotypes and using data and industry insight to tap into the new trends to improve sales and marketing efforts.
Business Technology
Here, Simon Willies, head of commercial for Currys PC World Business, explains why you should purge the paper and step into a paperless office this year.
Business Technology
In this article, Paul German, CEO, Certes Networks, explains why it is time for a significant change in approach in order to safeguard business with better cyber security.
Legal advice
Here, Sion Lewis, CEO at IRIS Accountancy Solutions provides top tips as to how businesses can manage red tape, reposition regulations, embrace technology to ease red tape complexity and transform red tape into an opportunity.
Productivity Zone
Following a recent survey of 1,300 employees across the UK, ADP, the human capital management provider, has found that ‘bad management’ is the biggest drain on productivity in the UK workplace.
Business Technology
With cybercrime promising to continue its growth as a lucrative criminal revenue option, more than ever you need to protect your accumulated data and make sure that it doesn’t fall into the wrong hands.
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