Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs
You need to provide the best experiences for your customers. But a competitive market doesn't give small businesses any breaks. You can move your business forward with a merchant cash advance.
Alternative finance
Accounting
An estimated 90 per cent of UK high street retailers have yet to capture all their accountancy data and are potentially living beyond their means.
Alternative finance
You need to provide the best experiences for your customers. But a competitive market doesn't give small businesses any breaks. You can move your business forward with a merchant cash advance.
Accounting
An estimated 90 per cent of UK high street retailers have yet to capture all their accountancy data and are potentially living beyond their means.
Buying and selling a company
In this piece, in association with BusinessesForSale.com, we explore a range of UK businesses for sale and discuss why they are ideal purchases.
Advice
Here Will Beresford, co-founder of FoodStars, explains the challenges he faced when establishing his business, which provides kitchen space for food companies.
News
New research shows that half of UK startups do not offer stock options to their employees as a benefit.
News
The UK is a nation with ambition: almost nine in ten Britons have an unfulfilled dream, and three quarters want to turn it in to a reality.
Advice
Here, author and futurist, James Wallman, has provided seven essential tips for the small business future.
Employing & managing staff
For the first time in history we have five different generations in the workplace.
Legal advice
Here, Alex Boothman of MyLegalAdviser looks at how you can offer your employees an opportunity they can’t get at a big corporate.
Accounting
A new report identifies liabilities associated with late payments culture spanning jobs, innovation and investment for medium-sized businesses.
Productivity Zone
New research from Opus Energy finds that 86 per cent of SMEs have admitted to having problems with productivity.
News
With demand and supply of men’s products increasing in the past five years, one in four retailers now sell predominantly to male shoppers.
Business Loans
Everything you need to know on what small business loans are and what types of loan are available for your business.
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
Partner content
As with any supplier, it’s important to do your research and ask important questions before you select a broadband provider for your business. But what are the must-have things you should take into consideration?