Women Business Owners – The How and Why
Mandy Garner of WorkingMums.co.uk shares insight about how and why working mums represent such a large proportion of self-employed in the UK. Sharon Brogden has a success story worth sharing. Sacked...
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Help with Your Business Tax Affairs from HMRC – This Week
In an effort to reduce the burden on small businesses and make the tax system simpler, HMRC is offering interactive support to businesses for the first time. All this week (ending 1 March), businesses...
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Building a Team to Take you to the Top
When you set up your company, you are the developer, marketer, HR manager and finance director as well as the CEO. Having started Huddle with Andy McLoughlin a few years ago, I know only too well what...
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Live Q&A: Starting an Online Brand
Inspired by recent community discussions, The Wholesale Forums (TWF) is hosting a Live Forum Q&A “Starting Your Own Online Brand.” The online event, which is being supported Business in You, will...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleStarting 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleThe 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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SHARING COSTS IS ESSENTIAL FOR SURVIVAL SAY UK START-UPS
According to Zipcar and national enterprise campaign StartUp Britain, over half (55%) of start-up businesses regard sharing resources with other companies as ‘essential’ to survival. The findings are...
View ArticleBusiness 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...
View ArticleThe New Business Diary: Cashflow Management
In the sixth installment chronicling his journey of starting a new business, Jeremy tackles a critical feature – managing cashflow. You’ve probably heard the phrase ‘cash is king’. With any business,...
View ArticleFour 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...
View ArticleTurn 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...
View ArticleThe Value of Online Peer-To-Peer Advice
As the founder and chairman of UK discount website, MyVoucherCodes.co.uk, Mark Pearson knows a thing or two about starting a business from scratch. We sat down with the man himself to talk about how...
View ArticleEntrepreneur Levi Roots supports New Enterprise Allowance
Dragons Den star Levi Roots is teaming up with Jobcentre Plus to encourage jobseekers to consider setting up their own businesses with the help of the Government’s New Enterprise Allowance scheme. The...
View ArticleMentoring matters
At Intuit, we firmly believe in the power of mentoring so as part of Business In You’s Mentoring Month, we wanted to take a closer look at mentoring and how it could work for you. At last year’s MADE...
View ArticleThe 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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