SMEs

News

Future of small business is local, personal and about data

Data and working from home are going to transform small businesses, and the SME owner-director needs to be ahead of that curve

Export & Import

Top five tips for SME exporters in a post-Brexit world

Finding and selling to customers

Average small business makes £300,000 on Amazon

News

Brexit puts more than third of UK small businesses at risk of closure

More than two fifths of UK SMEs claim that Brexit will or already has resulted in redundancies

News

SMEs forecast to create 1.2m jobs in Britain over the coming year

With optimism coming from the vaccine rollout programme, UK SMEs expect to be hiring 1.2m staff over the next year

Financing

MarketFinance offers small business grants of £5,000 each

Small business owners have until December 31 to apply for first round of MarketFinance Business Booster Fund

Business Technology

Call for digital adoption fund to boost small business productivity

Tech start-ups call for a Singapore-style fund to help small businesses cover the cost of upgrading digital solutions, boosting the UK’s woeful productivity

Business management

7 biggest challenges SMEs face – and how to overcome them

Simon Willmett outlines the seven main challenges facing every small business, and offers ways to overcome them.

Business Technology

‘SMEs will become the norm’: how the business landscape is changing

We chat to Christal Bemont and Dafydd Llewellyn of SAP Concur about growing access to technology and how SMEs are shaping the business world.

News

Number of SMEs trading internationally halves in 2017

A slowdown in international trade is likely to continue as three quarters of small businesses expect international revenues to decline or remain stagnant during Q1 2018.

Advice