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.
In this article by Stevens & Bolton LLP, we explore how pragmatism at the start-up and scale-up phases of a business can you help to navigate waters that may later prove turbulent.
Legal advice
Business management
Running a business requires many different skills in order to survive. Entrepreneurs need to find proficiency in a number of abilities, with project management being one of them.
Office & home working
Here are a few ways that your start up or SME can benefit from a paperless office - and ten tips to reduce paper use every day.
Business management
Businesses face disaster every second of every day. Malicious actors could be preparing to hack their online platform, strong winds could leave them without power, or employee negligence may result in customer data falling into the wrong hands. Disruption appears to be waiting around every corner.
Legal advice
There are some common legal and financial issues, frequently overlooked by business owners, that are worthy of review, argues Phil Mitchell of Harbour Key.
Business management
Here, Chris Proctor, CEO at Oneserve, discusses the concept of industry 4.0 and how businesses can prepare for it.
Business management
Could you become a paperless business? In this article, KashFlow cover the steps you’ll need to take.
Business Technology
Dan Martland, head of technical testing at Edge Testing, offers his insight into the three most important technologies for SMEs in their digital transformation journeys.
Business management
Could you become a paperless business? In this article, KashFlow cover the steps you’ll need to take.
Business Technology
Dan Martland, head of technical testing at Edge Testing, offers his insight into the three most important technologies for SMEs in their digital transformation journeys.
Employing & managing staff
Ian Joseph, CEO of Trustees Unlimited, discusses how companies like Google have benefited from corporate trustee programmes that encourage employees to volunteer for charity.
Business Technology
The best solution to a broken phone is to use preventative measures to keep the device in optimal condition, as we discuss here.
Marketing
Here, we learn why roll-up banners are an essential marketing tool for small businesses.
Business management
Transfer Deadline Day often generates headlines for the wrong reasons, with player deals still reliant on archaic office processes. Adobe urges UK businesses to learn lessons from the deadline.
Business Technology
Landlines as we know them will be scrapped in 2027 – along with a raft of upcoming business changes. Here's how to ensure your communications set-up is fit for whatever the future brings
Business Loans
Everything you need to know on what small business loans are and what types of loan are available for your business.
Business Technology
With the landline shutdown coming fast, there’s never been a better time to switch to VoIP. Don’t let your small business be left behind!
Export & Import
Many factors can affect products’ journeys from A to B. Here are some tips for best practice for successful shipping in the modern world