Category: Advice

For hundreds of thousands of small businesses in the UK, times are tough. Businesses are looking for ways to get the most from everypenny they spend. Michael Stephens, UK general manager at LifeSize, explains three ways that technology can boost business.

Small businesses owners are being encouraged to crack down on staff taking ‘sickies’ after new research revealed that the UK’s ‘sick day’ culture is costing them up to £3.15 billion each year.

Tax avoidance, or ‘abuse’ as the Treasury would see it, has long been a problem for HMRC. From next April new legislation, known as GAAR, could be in place to clamp down on perceived abusers. How will it affect you and your clients? Neil Chadwick explains

Before you question whether I’m losing my marbles, let me give you some quick background on why your business can learn valuable lessons from Justin Bieber, the floppy haired Canadian popstar.

Research into retirement planning advice and salary changes affected by changes to UK Legislation. James Barnett explains salary sacrifice.

Ronjit Bose, Commercial Director of Jelf Employee Benefits explains why employee benefits are key.

Growing a successful small business requires a range of skills that very few people have in their entirety. Bringing specialist people into a company is vitally important to its success, but hiring full time staff to your business can be both expensive and can potentially drain businesses’ resources.

Vince Cable is announcing consultation on employment law reforms which involve reducing unfair dismissal compensation limits and looking at ways to simplify settlement agreements. These reforms do not appear to address the basic problems businesses are still facing in the workplace.

Every start-up entrepreneur sets out, armed with flip chart and pens, on a mission to draw up the perfect business plan. This often starts with a grand vision, and is accompanied by the financials to get there. But what continually surprises me, is just how few businesses, big or small, consider the customer drivers that will achieve those numbers.

Star, a medium sized managed technology services company, provides the top 5 ways cloud computing can help businesses unlock growth and realise their full potential.

Peter Drucker said companies need to “innovate or die”, high stakes indeed. To successfully meet the demands of an ever changing marketplace you need to continually respond and innovate to keep pace, but it is expensive and resource intensive. Increasingly that resource means IT.

When faced with exciting marketing ideas, new technologies, and a limited budget, it is easy to become distracted to try everything, but this usually leads to stretched resource, wasted money and often disappointing results. So how do you know which ones to take and which to pass on?

Many companies are missing out on valuable tax refunds for research and development activity explains Richard Cullum, Managing Partner of R&T Consultants who specialise in tax claims for businesses.

Clayton Coke gives us his top tips to cash flow management