Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs
Advice on how to start your own business, with guides to help you plan, develop and finance a start-up company, plus recommendations on registering the business, its legal structure and finding financial backing for growth. Whether you are just beginning or have already taken the first steps and want to keep everything on track, our expert articles will give you the knowledge to help lead you to success, whilst maintaining a good work-life balance.
Starting a business can initially seem daunting, but with good support and a strong idea you can quickly pass through the key stages of the setting-up process and be able to launch your company with a solid foundation.
Topics covered include: regulations and requirements for company owners, finding and selecting the professional services you may need (such as banking, insurance, accountancy etc.), legal structure options (self-employed person, sole trader, a partnership or a limited company), business planning, UK start up funding sources and finding your first customers.
Trunki entrepreneur Rob Law MBE and media guru Tim Weller will be offering top quality business advice at the E2E ScaleUp2Success seminar series taking place at the Reading Regus offices.
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Picking a location to start up your business can be tricky, with outlying costs and likely survival of your business a priority. We break down the 15 best cities to start a business.
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Here, Richard Stonier, founder of online accountancy provider, Tally Accounts, turns the page on top tips for small business owners to live happy ever after.
Work life balance
The Qualtrics Employee Pulse, taken every quarter, asks 4,000 employees about the state of their workplace including how an overloaded work schedule effects their work-life balance.
Startup Funding and Grants
More than half of businesses who have received EIS investment are based in London, despite only making up a quarter of the economy.
Business Ideas & Planning
In this piece Cat Pinkney, co-founder of Paycircle, explains why launching a product in a dull sector has been the key to the company's success.
Investing in a franchise
Here, we look at how to ensure you're making the right decision to invest in a franchise.
Advice
The financial sector can be an attractive way of starting a company in a European country, as we explore here.
Investing in a franchise
Here, we look at how to ensure you're making the right decision to invest in a franchise.
Advice
The financial sector can be an attractive way of starting a company in a European country, as we explore here.
Advice
Everyone gets business advice. But, as ISL recruitment director Alan Furley argues, it only starts to pay when you start listening.
Advice
Here, we look at why it’s important to weigh up the costs and benefits before choosing to invest in commercial property.
Business Ideas & Planning
Here, we reveal some of the best ideas for a small business.
Advice
Here, Simon Burckhardt of Vonage discusses the key issues that small business owners will face in the year to come.
Partner content
Hospitality businesses have faced a number of challenges in the last couple of years. Find out what funding and support is available.
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