Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs
This section takes you through every important aspect of how to run a successful business. It offers expert guides and advice articles on the key elements of business management such as employing staff, finding customers, marketing and sales, pricing, people management, office and home working, business technology and everything else an entrepreneur must tackle in order to succeed.
Here, Sion Lewis, CEO at IRIS Accountancy Solutions provides top tips as to how businesses can manage red tape, reposition regulations, embrace technology to ease red tape complexity and transform red tape into an opportunity.
Legal advice
Productivity Zone
Following a recent survey of 1,300 employees across the UK, ADP, the human capital management provider, has found that ‘bad management’ is the biggest drain on productivity in the UK workplace.
Business Technology
With cybercrime promising to continue its growth as a lucrative criminal revenue option, more than ever you need to protect your accumulated data and make sure that it doesn’t fall into the wrong hands.
Marketing
Many people are usually surprised about the responsibility that comes along with being a small business owner. From buying drug test kits for testing prospective employees to getting the right marketing strategy, owning a business is a labor intensive process.
Finding and selling to customers
Here's why you should not disregard the benefits of tools like loyalty programmes in your business.
Export & Import
In this article, Charlie Pool, CEO, Stowga, explores the concept of on-demand warehousing and what it means for small businesses.
Business management
Here, Natalie Lovett, managing director of The Whitewed directory, explores how to drive higher engagement when you attend a business event.
Employing & managing staff
Remembering to make your colleagues a drink, keeping the noise down in the office and being punctual are some of the most important pieces of office etiquette all staff need to know.
Business management
Here, Natalie Lovett, managing director of The Whitewed directory, explores how to drive higher engagement when you attend a business event.
Employing & managing staff
Remembering to make your colleagues a drink, keeping the noise down in the office and being punctual are some of the most important pieces of office etiquette all staff need to know.
Employing & managing staff
Steve Woods, UK spokesperson for Deputy, shares what companies need to do to prepare for labour market reforms.
Employing & managing staff
Sixty per cent of workers don’t think that their employers are catering for their individual needs, including managing introverts and extroverts.
Marketing
Greg Lennox, owner and managing director of RAL Display, offers four main considerations for businesses who are looking to exhibit and promote their products or services overseas.
Business Technology
With technology becoming more and more advanced in modern businesses, companies need to catch up with the trends. Here are five ways Artificial Intelligence can benefit your business
Business Loans
Everything you need to know on what small business loans are and what types of loan are available for your business.
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