Online Business

Articles, guides and news on the topic of buying and selling of goods and services through online platforms, websites, and digital marketplaces. Online businesses can take various forms, including online retail stores, digital marketplaces, subscription services, and more.

Business Technology

Eight steps for building a successful online business

Here, we look at eight steps to help you to get your business running online and thriving in the digital landscape.

Business management

How to grow an online travel agent business

Here, we speak to online travel agency guru Jon Moulding about competing with larger operators, moving away from marketing on Teletext and succeeding in a niche market.

Business Technology

Three tips to establishing a robust digital identity for your business

Stefano Maruzzi shares his top three tips to building a trustworthy digital brand.

Business Ideas & Planning

How I started and grew a coupon code business

In this piece, Peter King discusses the origins of his coupon codes company and the challenges and opportunities he encountered along the way.

Setting up a company

The contractor who started a business for contractors

IT contractor Dave Chaplin started a website to help others when IR35 tax legislation arrived in 1999. Here, he talks about setting up and growing the company.

Finding and selling to customers

Top five ways to shop online

Here's how to enhance your internet shopping experience.

News

Entrepreneurial Britain: Eight million in the UK operating online business from home

One in six people in the UK are operating as an 'online business from home', specifically purchasing goods to resell, or making their own products to sell for profit, finds research.

Advice

Daniel Abrahams on founding MyTravelMoney.co.uk

Daniel Abrahams started online travel money comparison site MyTravelMoney.co.uk in 2011 and now sees profit alone of £117,000. He talks to SmallBusiness.co.uk about his journey.

Finding and selling to customers

Why don’t you sell online?

Even today, a surprising amount of small businesses still have no online outlet. Mark Kirschner, of e-commerce company Rakuten, discusses new ways to facilitate selling online.

News

SMEs are flourishing online

Small online businesses are flourishing, according to trade body for online retailers IMRG.

Advice

Amanda Christie on starting the mysinglefriend.com online business

Amanda Christie set up online singles network Mysinglefriend.com with her childhood friend Sarah Beeny, presenter of Channel 4's Property Ladder programme. The website takes a different approach to online dating, attempting to remove the stigma. It is now one of the top online dating sites in the UK. SmallBusiness.co.uk caught up with her to find out how she did it.

Business Technology

How to trade online

Many small businesses in the UK currently don't take enough advantage of trading online. Plenty of businesses have websites, but as few as ten per cent of these allow customers to buy goods or services online. It's a little like having a corner shop without putting in a cash register.