According to a recent survey from consultancy firm GetSet for Business, the general fear of redundancy has encouraged more and more people to start their own business.

The research showed 40 per cent of business owner’s say that the fear of having their financial security removed was the main motivation in becoming self-employed.

The survey included [...]

A recent survey by the Forum of Private Business has found that small businesses value school and college leavers above university graduates.

The figures revealed that 77.4 percent of small business owners do not require university level employee’s, while 35.5 percent of the 1,500 surveyed said they’d rather employ someone with technical and craft skills [...]

A new study has found that marketing a firm as a family business can help boost sales.

Researchers in America surveyed family business leaders and found that they could influence purchasing decisions by reminding customers that their money will benefit a family rather than faceless shareholders.

The paper was published in the Journal of Small Business [...]

A survey of 12,001 workers across the UK by gas and electricity provider E:ON has found that smaller companies are more than twice as likely to have environmentally aware employees than their larger counterparts.

The survey revealed that over a third of employees in small companies have changed their behaviour to address climate change, compared [...]

Small business owners should combat the economic slowdown by increasing their marketing spend at taking pay cuts, according to a survey by the Open University Small Enterprise Research Team (SERT).

Of the 700 business owners surveyed more than half said they would be willing to take a pay cut. Almost half (49%) of those surveyed [...]

The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) has warned that a change in taxpayer’s personal allowances could cause confusion for businesses.

The personal allowance is the amount of money earned before tax is paid. At present the basic allowance for the 2008/09 tax year is £5,435.

In September the new allowance will come in to force, [...]

A survey of 350 online businesses by payment processing company PayPoint, has found that nearly all of the UK’s small online businesses believe that fraud is not their responsibility.

Some 99 percent of businesses surveyed believe liability for fraud lies with banks, credit card issuers and payment service providers.

Alessandro Hatami, managing director of PayPoint.net, says: [...]

According to new research from BT Business and Cisco, over half of private sector businesses believe that SME suppliers are less competitive than their larger counterparts.

The research found that 57 percent of larger company’s don’t feel that SMEs are capable of providing round the clock support, and 52 percent say they are unable to [...]