Category: Advice

According to a recent survey undertaken by Climb Online, 90% of participating businesses consider both SEO and PPC to be significant to their overarching marketing strategy.

Now that the winter weather is starting to disappear, it’s a great time to start thinking about whether you can carry out some spring cleaning on your business to get you set for the rest of 2016.

Whether it’s computers, photocopiers, printers or even furniture, many businesses decide that renting vital office equipment makes more practical and financial sense than buying it.

You have your website in place. Your SEO is in order. You’ve got blogs written and published – about all the right topics. You’ve got one or more social media platform accounts up and running with a reasonable number of followers or likes. Now is the time to see what your strategic digital marketing campaign can do.

The majority of internet users will now be well versed about Cloud computing and all that it can provide, particularly for businesses, who look for ways of making their data available any time, from anywhere.

Little counts in business as much as experience. New Business Matters Magazine Columnist and experienced entrepreneur Mark Thornhill shares what the last 20 years running his own manufacturing and engineering businesses have taught him.

Mark Thornton, Marketing Director for Manchester based, leading retail solution provider Maginus, examines how businesses can evaluate their B2B customers to understand which are the most profitable – and which should be cut loose

In 2016, 2 billion people will be using their smartphone on a daily basis. Last year, 38% of all website views came via a mobile device.

Do you have a great idea? Do you want to work for yourself? With 2015 going down in history as a record year for SMEs, there are clearly plenty of reasons entrepreneurs can feel optimistic about setting up a new business, but its good practice to make sure you get some good advice before you start. Dave Sunter, Business Development Manager at Stonebridge Offices, offers his top tips for making sure you’re ready to go it alone.

Despite the months of reminders and warnings, you may be one of the hundreds of thousands of businesses owners and directors that HMRC estimates missed the self-assessment deadline on January 31.

As many businesses start the year with a clean slate and new business hopes and aspirations, 2016 is set to be another year of growth for the alternative finance market.

Starting a business can be the most testing thing on the planet- even for the most confident of people!