Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs
Business management
Mia Woodford set up online auction site Buy Once Give Twice with her friend Emma Leschallas, as a way for charities to raise money.
Business Ideas & Planning
SmallBusiness.co.uk has a wealth of articles and guides to help you save money when starting out in business.
Accounting
Tax is a headache at the best of times, let alone during a recession. Express Tax Solutions’ Parvinder Kaur offers six tips to avoid getting into hot water with HMRC.
Business management
James Murray Wells started Glassesdirect.co.uk with the last £1,000 of his student loan. With the help of VCs, he is now aiming to turn it into a £1 billion company.
Business management
Margaret Wood started her engineering company ICW UK, which makes high-tech windows and windscreens, at the age of 46. Based in Yorkshire the 61-year-old entrepreneur received a Women Inventors in Industry award in 2003. Her company has a turnover of £400,000
Finding and selling to customers
These key sales strategies will help you increase top line growth in good times and bad.
Advice
Multimillionaire and star of Dragons’ Den Peter Jones talks to SmallBusiness.co.uk about training the next generation of entrepreneurs through his National Enterprise Academy (NEA).
Alternative finance
Until the economy returns to a position of normality and bank lending picks up again, SMEs are seeking alternative sources of finance.
Business management
Runner-up on The Apprentice Claire Young discusses being fired by Alan Sugar, turning down a job with Karren Brady and her new company Elegant Venues.
Business management
Ex-cavalry officer Tony Lutwyche reveals how he’s going to turn his Made In England brand of high-end suits into a business empire.
News
Working for big business is not a top priority for employees, with the majority claiming they would prefer to work for an SME, says recruitment consultancy Angela Mortimer.
News
Entrepreneurs have welcomed the government's Low Carbon Industrial Strategy as a way to boost the economy and create new jobs.