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Business advice to help you grow your SME and small & medium sized company and help you grow your company
The tax incentives luring entrepreneurs from abroad to the UK
Richard Hopes, a partner at Alliotts Chartered Accountants, looks at why entrepreneurs and business owners from all over the world are choosing the UK.
Struggling with late paying clients? Here are five invoicing mistakes to avoid
One of the best ways of keeping your business’s cash flow healthy is to ensure that you get paid quickly by your customers. But, unfortunately, this can also be one of the most difficult and frustrating things about running a micro-business.
The three rules of persuasive presentations
When it comes to persuading your audience while delivering a speech or presentation, there are really only three rules, and according to Paul Carroll of Toastmasters International.
Ways to Improve Your Business Reporting
Successful business intelligence reporting is all down to the effective technology driven identification and management of essential data within a business; by analysing and detailed reporting is it possible to clearly define and measure the success of your business.
6 tips to help you overcome cold calling anxiety
Cold calling is an essential tool for many business owners – and to do it successfully requires good nerves, a thick skin and, of course, an ability to sell.
Improve your company’s financing prospects
For SMEs in any industry or field of operations, finding the right kind of funding deals or arrangements can be critical to future success.
The importance of pre transaction planning
The sale of a business is a process with a timeline.
Five steps to creating a personalisation strategy
Organisations across every market, from retail to travel, gaming to financial services, recognise the increasing importance of giving customers an engaging, relevant online experience. Whether the focus is driving repeat visits or higher transaction values – or both – ensuring the entire customer experience is engaging, relevant and reflects the context of what that individual is doing at the time, is essential.
Top tips for businesses when faced with a cyber-attack
In light of a number of recent high-profile data breach cases, Stephen Attree, managing partner at commercial and private client law firm, MLP Law, discusses what SMEs should do when faced with a cyber-attack.
How to get rich dealing in modern art & vintage furniture
We are a nation of house-buyers, with Brits desperate to put their money in bricks and mortar. However with mortgages harder to come by people are seeking out alternative options. If you have some collateral, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t invest. And I may have a solution for you – dealing in modern art and vintage late twentieth-century furniture.
The hidden value of your intellectual property
David Bloom, founder and CEO of SafeguardiP, the UK’s only dedicated intellectual property insurance broker, explains the importance of protecting your intellectual property.
Actionable user experience advice from the experts
Jeanne Bliss, customer experience pioneer and Simon Ensor, Managing Director of Yellowball, talk about the importance of user experience.
The biggest challenges for future workplace benefits revealed
A new report from employee benefits provider Unum sets out the future trends and challenges affecting the composition of an effective and desirable benefits package.
What SME’s can learn from the release of Bieber’s ‘What do you mean?’
As one of the most successful artists of the modern era, Justin Bieber hasn’t got to the top of the music industry by sheer luck. With his new single ‘What do you mean?’ set to be released today, businesses can learn a thing or two from JB.