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Ben Lobel
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Ben Lobel was the editor of SmallBusiness.co.uk from 2010 to 2018. He specialises in writing for start-up and scale-up companies in the areas of finance, marketing and HR.
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Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs
Ben Lobel was the editor of SmallBusiness.co.uk from 2010 to 2018. He specialises in writing for start-up and scale-up companies in the areas of finance, marketing and HR.
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Ministers have pledged further backing for small businesses as one of its support schemes made its 5,000th loan to a young entrepreneur.
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Women and the over 50's are shunning entrepreneurship, preferring the reliability of employment instead, according to a survey.
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Business lending under the government's Funding for Lending (FLS) scheme has fallen for the second successive quarter, suggesting the initiative has failed in its mission to kick-start credit creation.
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The majority of shoppers think that improvements should be made to their local high street, research finds.
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A quarter of small business owners say that they regret starting up and would rather not go through the pain of growing a company again, research finds.
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Small business owners are being let down by legal services providers, being hit financially and emotionally, research finds.
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One third of UK office workers regularly share confidential company information with colleagues, according to a study.
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Small businesses have been encouraged to expand following a government initiative to reduce their national insurance (NI) burden, research finds.
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Cybercrime costs small businesses an average of £4,000 a time, research finds.
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The number of official complaints made by small companies about loans and overdrafts has risen by 17 per cent in the last year, rising from 522 to 612, research finds.
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The average cost of starting a business in the UK is £312, research finds.
Finding and selling to customers
Improving direct customer engagement to better customer service is becoming a main focus for many small businesses.