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.
Past experiences of selling a business can be invaluable for the next sale. In this piece, Jo Thornley of BusinessesForSale.com gives some do’s and don'ts to keep in mind.
Buying and selling a company
Legal advice
Here, Caroline Lavis, associate at Michelmores, looks at a few of the legal issues that UK SMEs should be considering in 2018.
Business management
Storage expert, Space Station has teamed up with a number of organisational experts to help people get more organised and regain control in 2018.
Employing & managing staff
New research results from MoneyGuru show how the public really judge the issue of their pay rises.
Business management
The collapse of the construction giant holds some useful lessons for SMEs, says Matt Dunham of Dunham Dean Advisory.
Finding and selling to customers
UK consumers are four times less likely to repeat-purchase from retailers ghosting them after a sale, research uncovers.
Legal advice
Here, Bruce Penson, managing director at Pro Drive IT, explores how big data and GDPR presents both challenges and opportunities.
Finding and selling to customers
Sales managers can take several steps to ensure their teams remain focused and productive, as we discuss here.
Legal advice
Here, Bruce Penson, managing director at Pro Drive IT, explores how big data and GDPR presents both challenges and opportunities.
Finding and selling to customers
Sales managers can take several steps to ensure their teams remain focused and productive, as we discuss here.
Business Technology
What if there were a way to speed up the manufacturing and hardware design process? Here, we find out.
Business Technology
Peter Ruffley, chairman at Zizo, considers the importance of Digital Transformation (DX) and creating a data-driven culture to prepare businesses for an AI enabled world.
Employing & managing staff
We have all pulled a sickie to get out of work for one reason or another, but what are the top ten excuses for absence?
Employing & managing staff
I have had several requests from employees who all want off the same period of holidays in the summer - do I have to accept these requests or can I refuse my employees the holidays?
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