By Small Business Team on Small Business UK - Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs We all how much hard work it is running a small business. As a sole trader, you’re in charge of everything – your product or service, bookkeeping and marketing. And that’s just the essentials. When you employ people, you can multiply the stress by having to follow employment law, financing your growing business, dealing with the taxman and probably negotiating with landlords. But what if something goes wrong? Say, you find yourself in a legal dispute with a landlord? Or have HMRC querying your acco ..read more

By Small Business Team on Small Business UK - Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs We all how much hard work it is running a small business. As a sole trader, you’re in charge of everything – your product or service, bookkeeping and marketing. And that’s just the essentials. When you employ people, you can multiply the stress by having to follow employment law, financing your growing business, dealing with the taxman and probably negotiating with landlords. But what if something goes wrong? Say, you find yourself in a legal dispute with a landlord? Or have HMRC querying your acco ..read more

By Small Business Team on Small Business UK - Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs Supermodel-turned-businesswoman Caprice Bourret hosted our British Business Awards 2022 last Thursday at London’s prestigious King’s Place venue. This year we received over 450 nominations from 355 companies across the UK. Nearly 150 companies were nominated for this year’s British Business Awards 2022. This is the third year we’ve run the British Business Awards, celebrating not only the best of the UK’s 5.6m small businesses but also those businesses which support them – whether they’re accountan ..read more

By Small Business Team on Small Business UK - Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs Supermodel-turned-businesswoman Caprice Bourret hosted our British Business Awards 2022 last Thursday at London’s prestigious King’s Place venue. This year we received over 450 nominations from 355 companies across the UK. Nearly 150 companies were nominated for this year’s British Business Awards 2022. This is the third year we’ve run the British Business Awards, celebrating not only the best of the UK’s 5.6m small businesses but also those businesses which support them – whether they’re accountan ..read more

By Timothy Adler on Small Business UK - Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs Small Business and its sister site Growth Business have fresh new logos bringing the sites into the 2020s.   Our new publisher, insurance technology platform Stubben Edge Group, wanted Small Business and Growth Business to have modern, clean and minimalist logos which would be both memorable and also show the websites are part of the wider Stubben Edge business group.  New modern logo Designer Tayla Bresser, who is based in South Africa, and Stubben Edge media manager Bruno Mameli worked t ..read more

By Timothy Adler on Small Business UK - Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs Small Business and its sister site Growth Business have fresh new logos bringing the sites into the 2020s.   Our new publisher, insurance technology platform Stubben Edge Group, wanted Small Business and Growth Business to have modern, clean and minimalist logos which would be both memorable and also show the websites are part of the wider Stubben Edge business group.  New modern logo Designer Tayla Bresser, who is based in South Africa, and Stubben Edge media manager Bruno Mameli worked t ..read more

By Ben Law on Small Business UK - Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs Microbusinesses are the engine of the British economy, especially when it comes to levelling up. Businesses with 10 employees or less make up 95 per cent of companies in the UK, so when they thrive, we all do. However, they are rarely analysed as a standalone group and are under-researched, sometimes misunderstood and often under-served. At GoDaddy we are trying to change that. Our Venture Forward study developed in partnership with the University of Kent analysed 2.3 million microbusinesses, looking at how th ..read more

By Ben Law on Small Business UK - Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs Microbusinesses are the engine of the British economy, especially when it comes to levelling up. Businesses with 10 employees or less make up 95 per cent of companies in the UK, so when they thrive, we all do. However, they are rarely analysed as a standalone group and are under-researched, sometimes misunderstood and often under-served. At GoDaddy we are trying to change that. Our Venture Forward study developed in partnership with the University of Kent analysed 2.3 million microbusinesses, looking at how th ..read more

By Dom Walbanke on Small Business UK - Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs There was an eclectic mix of propositions for all seasons in this season finale, but would the dragons part with their cash? First up the lift was a pumped-up David Hellard. “We’re all about energising Britain” he beamed, jumping with excitement before entering the den. The pitch got off to a rather cringey start as David sang his brand’s jingle (what’s that German word for feeling embarrassment on someone else’s behalf?) before ripping open his shirt to reveal a Superman t-shirt. He was after £60,000 for ..read more

By Dom Walbanke on Small Business UK - Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs As series 19 of Dragons’ Den comes to an end, we’ve been left scratching our heads with what to do with our time. We saw it all: blasts from the past, erotic handbags, petty spats and a pitch which left Steven Bartlett in tears. But two questions were left unanswered. First, how many times did Touker Suleyman wear that shirt? And second, who was the most careful dragon of them all? It turns out Sara Davies was, spending a paltry £347,500 (yes, we’ve done the maths), with half of that off the back of one p ..read more