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Business Ideas & Planning

This section covers business start up ideas and business planning. The expert advice articles will help you learn how to write an effective business plan to help secure funding and there are guides to step you through the launch of a successful business.

How to make a business partnership work

Companies led by a duo rather than a single head often attribute their success to the power of their business partnership.

Business Ideas & Planning

Business Ideas & Planning

Getting your business Olympics-fit

Martin Hayward explains how businesses should prepare for the infrastructure challenges posed by the Olympics.

Business Ideas & Planning

Smokeless smoking

Twenty-one year-old Ben Wilson set up Freshcig in July 2011 and expects sales of £250,000 for his first year of trading.

Business Ideas & Planning

James Caan review: The FT Guide to Business Startup

Serial investor and entrepreneur James Caan reviews Sara Williams' guide for entrepreneurs.

Business Ideas & Planning

In the mix

National mobile bar and cocktail service Zest Mixology started trading in January this year and expects to turn over £145,000 in its opening 12 months. SmallBusiness.co.uk talks to founder Murdo McLeod.

Business Ideas & Planning

Business plan advice

Dr Simon Mosey, head of Institute for Enterprise and Innovation at Nottingham University Business School, offers some business planning wisdom for SmallBusiness.co.uk readers.

Business Ideas & Planning

Starting a business in Brazil

Here we present some links to useful resources for those considering doing business in or with Brazil.

Business Ideas & Planning

New Build Projects – A Business Case Study

Interview with Matthew Newbury, founder of Newbury Developments, who has come from losing his leg in a road accident to starting his own home building business this year.

Business Ideas & Planning

Starting a business in Brazil

Here we present some links to useful resources for those considering doing business in or with Brazil.

Business Ideas & Planning

New Build Projects – A Business Case Study

Interview with Matthew Newbury, founder of Newbury Developments, who has come from losing his leg in a road accident to starting his own home building business this year.

Business Ideas & Planning

Starting an eBay agent business

I'm setting up an eBay trading agent business but I know the government are currently having a major clampdown on individuals profiting tax-free from sites such as eBay. I was wondering what exact steps would I need to take in terms of registering with HMRC etc?

Business Ideas & Planning

Should I register my home address?

I am going to start a new business. I don't want to register my home address, although I will be using my home as my office initially. What are my options?

Business Ideas & Planning

Jane Asher on starting a business

Jane Asher has starred in movies opposite Michael Caine and Lawrence Olivier. She’s written novels and regularly treads the boards in the West End. Despite all that, little could prepare her for the highs and lows of running her own business, Party Cakes.

Business Ideas & Planning

Business is child’s play for nursery chain Clever Clogs

Andrea Townsley set up nursery chain Clever Clogs in 2007 and now turns over more than £660,000. We ask her about how she set up the business and future plans.

Business Technology

How to keep your small business safe online

Here's how Security Service Edge from Vodafone can help to protect your SME from ever-increasing cyber threats

Business Technology

How to grow a global creative agency in record time

Find out how creative agency, Myth Studio, used technology to grow their business and quadruple their staff count in 18 months

Partner content

Attracting and keeping top talent through Total Reward

Employment benefits specialist, Drewberry, explain why you should base your benefits around a Total Reward Strategy

Partner content

5 things every small business owner needs to know before starting

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