Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs
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Failure is a very difficult concept to come to terms with; if we fail then what good can we possibly have done?
Advice
Here, David Cliff, managing director of Gedanken, explains why businesses should embrace and learn from failure.
Advice
Here, Jan Chmiel, managing director of Vistage International (UK), explores why we fear failure and how we can overcome that fear in business.
Business management
Here's why small business failure can be a blessing in disguise for those running a company.
Advice
What could be the real reason behind the failure of SMEs in their early stages of growth? Here, we investigate.
Advice
Here, Javier Cámara discusses the steps to take to ensure your small business can be the one in ten that succeeds.
News
Small business survival rates are as high as 91 per cent after one year of trading, but after five years just four in ten small businesses will still be trading, research finds.
Business management
Businesses fail for many reasons but here are five of the most common – and avoidable, as Adam Turnbull of BusinessesForSale.com explains.
Business management
Here, Henry Oakes looks at how to work through failure as a small business and come out intact.
Advice
Kevin Hughes reveals the big mistakes made by companies and discusses how not to make them yourself.
Advice
Elizabetta Camilleri discusses a key mistake she made in her business SalesGossip, and how learning from it made the company stronger.
News
Courier and haulage companies are the most likely to fail in the UK and restaurants and bars are three times more likely to go bust than other UK businesses, reveals research by accountancy group UHY Hacker Young.
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