Choosing The Right Accountant
Through such an economic crisis you will be able to understand now more than ever an accountant will be one of the most important advisors you could have on board.
You need to choose an accountant that will be able to ensure that your business grows smoothly as without one you will probably [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Impressing Your Customers
In this world there are good businesses and bad business - the bad businesses leave you feeling drained, empty and worried about doing business with them again.  The good businesses leave you feeling positive, happy and excited to spread the word…

Don’t you want to be one of the good businesses?  Being a strong [...]

Sales - Be Better!
A recession is a difficult climate for sales people - no one wants to buy anything when the economic outlook is so bleak and sales people have to work even harder than ever before to make a sale!

As a sales person you need to be better than everyone else - and now [...]

Business Plans
A business plan is obviously an essential part of any new start-up business, but do you know what needs to be done to write a successful business plan?  Here are a few key points to keep in mind when drawing up your own business plan;

Audience
You should write the business plan from the point of [...]