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.
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Advice
Here, Duncan Brock explains how UK small businesses are in a great position to take advantage of the current political climate.
Advice
Philip Adcock shares his top tips for how you can use the brain’s natural impulses to benefit you and your business.
Business Ideas & Planning
Here, Richard Walker discusses the key things to consider when putting your business plan together.
Advice
In this piece, Chris Kelly shares a helpful guide to your pension options and how to maximise your savings.
Advice
Collette Jones, money saving expert at Magic Freebies UK, reveals some free business essentials that can help small businesses save money when starting out.
Business Ideas & Planning
Here, Peter Finnie, managing partner of Gill Jennings & Every, tells us why the timing of a patent application can mean everything to your intellectual property.
Advice
How can you ensure that your dream car doesn’t turn into a leasing nightmare?
Business Ideas & Planning
Here, Peter Finnie, managing partner of Gill Jennings & Every, tells us why the timing of a patent application can mean everything to your intellectual property.
Advice
How can you ensure that your dream car doesn’t turn into a leasing nightmare?
Startup Funding and Grants
The UK housing market is continuing its slow but steady return to strength.
Startup Funding and Grants
The bridging loan, as far as the average mortgage broker was concerned, used to be the kind of offering to avoid at all costs. Not so any more.
Startup Funding and Grants
There are two broad ways to finance a business: an injection of equity or taking on debt. Here, we look at debt.
Advice
Here, Danae Varangis, founder and COO, DV Closet, teaches us the lessons she learnt to achieve success.
Business Technology
Landlines as we know them will be scrapped in 2027 – along with a raft of upcoming business changes. Here's how to ensure your communications set-up is fit for whatever the future brings
Business Loans
Everything you need to know on what small business loans are and what types of loan are available for your business.
Business Technology
With the landline shutdown coming fast, there’s never been a better time to switch to VoIP. Don’t let your small business be left behind!
Export & Import
Many factors can affect products’ journeys from A to B. Here are some tips for best practice for successful shipping in the modern world