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The New Business Diary: Setting Out

Jeremy Hurst co-founded web development and design agency Slightly Different, which has grown to employ 15 people in two locations. Now, 13 years later, Jeremy is again tapping into his entrepreneurial...

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Reducing Owner Dependency

Early on, some business owners often find themselves with a good problem – that their business has become successful enough that they can no longer be the only person behind it. This article from Fresh...

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Grow Your Business with Online Outsourcing

Online outsourcing is a fast-growing trend around the world that entrepreneurs and business owners are embracing to grow their companies. Hiring virtual freelancers is allowing these businesses to...

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The Need to Adapt to Your Customers

Taking it back to basics, customers are everything. Every business works hard to identify and win customers, but once you have won them, the truly hard part is keeping them. The businesses that do the...

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The New Business Diary: Elevator Pitch

In the second installment chronicling his journey of starting a new business, Jeremy covers the importance of getting the message right. Confident in the knowledge that the legal company registration...

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Growing a Business in Challenging Times?

Yes, it’s possible. Some companies even thrive in challenging times, for a host of reasons, and surprise even themselves with their success. And in many cases, this kind of growth is helped along by...

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The New Business Diary: A Trip to The Bank

In the third installment chronicling his journey of starting a new business, Jeremy tackles what is often the most important steps for any new business – talking to the bank. Unless you plan to barter...

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Starting a Business in a Recession – Tips and Ideas

While there are certainly a host of challenges to starting a business (at any given time), there can be benefits to starting a small business in a recession. FreshBusinessThinking.com offers this...

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How to Start Up with Limited Funds

Lace Llanora is Community Manager at The Wholesale Forums (TWF), the UK’s leading B2B networking community & advice forum for wholesalers, distributors, importers, drop-shippers and retailers. Dan...

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The New Business Diary: When to Tackle the Essentials

In the fourth installment chronicling his journey of starting a new business, Jeremy shares his approach to getting started and when he feels is the right time to take care of certain essentials. But...

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Winners of The Queen’s Awards Announced

Linda Stephens, The Secretary of The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise, joins the world of blogging this week at http://blogs.bis.gov.uk/queensawards. She congratulates the winners  of this year’s awards,...

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Cyber Attacks on Small Businesses Increase

Cyber security isn’t something that only large companies need to worry about anymore. In fact, research commissioned by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) shows that since last...

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Your Business Questions Answered

Beginning Monday 29 April, Sue Hayes, Managing Director at Barclays Business gives you the opportunity to connect with Farida Gibbs, the multi award-winning CEO of Gibbs S3, Europe’s fastest growing...

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The New Business Diary: When to Tackle The Essentials Pt 2

In the fifth installment chronicling his journey of starting a new business, Jeremy continues with the theme of when to take care of certain essentials. So, back to those essentials that I was talking...

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Business in You – Mentoring month

This month sees mentoring as the theme of the Government’s Business in You campaign. With all of the benefits it has to offer small businesses and those thinking about starting up, mentoring is...

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Four Considerations for your first Office search

An office search is a somewhat lengthy but should ultimately be a rewarding process for a small business. Few things make you feel more like you’ve arrived as a business than moving into that first...

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Prime Minister’s Enterprise Advisor Lord Young publishes his report on...

In his second report to the Prime Minister -‘Growing Your Business’ – Lord Young highlights the increasing importance that micro businesses –  those which have less than 10 employees – have on the...

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Turn Your Business Idea Into Reality

Martin Turner started developing FreeIndex.co.uk - a Free UK Business Directory in his garden shed in 2003. Ten years later the site has well over a million members and is highly profitable. Martin had...

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The value of business coaching and mentoring

Catrin MacDonnell, Director, Papadeli www.papdeli.co.uk As a business coach, mentor and company director, I know the value of advice and mentoring for a business. For the past week I have been...

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New Business Diary – Customer Management

In the seventh installment chronicling his journey of starting a new business, Jeremy focuses on customer management. Looking after your clients is key to any business, no matter what sector you’re...

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