Limited Companies
Yesterday we spent some time looking at the world of sole trading.  For many start ups there is a great debate as to whether to start as a sole trader or as a limited company.
In fact there are far more sole traders than there are limited companies - there are only 1.15 million limited [...]

Sole Trader
Did you know that the most popular way to start up a new business is to do so as a sole trader?  There are a staggering 2.8 million sole traders in the United Kingdom alone, but I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that many people aren’t actually sure what a sole trader is.
The [...]

Success In A Recession!
A recession can be a truly depressing time - the business outlook is bleak, you have to lose employees and your profit margins are weak.  The one glimpse of happiness comes at the realisation that every other small business in the country is going through the same thing…actually, they aren’t…
That’s right, not [...]

With things the way they are at the moment, you may have to make some lay-offs that you would prefer not to in order to keep your business afloat. This often also means that you can’t afford a decent severance package or access to professional outplacement services either.
So what can you do to help soften [...]

Overtrading Damaging Your Small Business
You may think that overtrading sounds like a good thing, but actually it isn’t - the key to a healthy business is to get a good balance between under trading and overtrading.

Overtrading can slam your small business straight into financial difficulties, which can obviously be a common problem in a recession [...]

When setting up your own business, you often want to cut some corners to speed up the process. However, you really shouldn’t cut corners when it comes to receiving legal advice because this is the only way to ensure that your brilliant business idea doesn’t get blown apart by unforeseen circumstances.
Your Company Name – There [...]

Business and the Media
Public Relations can often be a tricky business - getting the approach correct is key to getting your business spread across the nation or ever the globe but most of the time businesses end up getting it wrong - this doesn’t have to be the case for your small business.
You might have [...]

Easy Marketing
An online site for small businesses to expand their networking and tendering opportunities has been set up.
The site aims to helping small and medium sized firms continue to succeed in the difficult economy that is currently causing problems for many businesses.
The Business Network Online (BNO) has taken the best aspects of other business-orientated networking [...]