Business advice to help you grow your SME and small & medium sized company and help you grow your company
You have your website in place. Your SEO is in order. You’ve got blogs written and published – about all the right topics. You’ve got one or more social media platform accounts up and running with a reasonable number of followers or likes. Now is the time to see what your strategic digital marketing campaign can do.
The majority of internet users will now be well versed about Cloud computing and all that it can provide, particularly for businesses, who look for ways of making their data available any time, from anywhere.
Previous articles in this series have focused on measures to create and “lock-in” the value of a business in the course of the sale process: through incentivising the team, pre-transaction due diligence and planning, tax aware structuring of the deal and negotiation of the “earn-out”. In this article consideration now turns to protecting the value realised on the eventual sale.
Little counts in business as much as experience. New Business Matters Magazine Columnist and experienced entrepreneur Mark Thornhill shares what the last 20 years running his own manufacturing and engineering businesses have taught him.
Mark Thornton, Marketing Director for Manchester based, leading retail solution provider Maginus, examines how businesses can evaluate their B2B customers to understand which are the most profitable – and which should be cut loose
In 2016, 2 billion people will be using their smartphone on a daily basis. Last year, 38% of all website views came via a mobile device.
Do you have a great idea? Do you want to work for yourself? With 2015 going down in history as a record year for SMEs, there are clearly plenty of reasons entrepreneurs can feel optimistic about setting up a new business, but its good practice to make sure you get some good advice before you start. Dave Sunter, Business Development Manager at Stonebridge Offices, offers his top tips for making sure you’re ready to go it alone.
Despite the months of reminders and warnings, you may be one of the hundreds of thousands of businesses owners and directors that HMRC estimates missed the self-assessment deadline on January 31.
If there is one thing that businesses seem to be spending more and more on, it is call costs. This is because business is increasingly being conducted on a global scale and there are more reasons than ever to call other countries.
As many businesses start the year with a clean slate and new business hopes and aspirations, 2016 is set to be another year of growth for the alternative finance market.
Starting a business can be the most testing thing on the planet- even for the most confident of people!
Luke Potter, Operations Manager at SureCloud, looks at 4 of the most basic security oversights identified during Penetration Testing that leave businesses vulnerable to a data breach
New to the world of video conferencing? Given the anywhere and everywhere connectivity that smart devices have made possible, it’s easy to see why companies would turn to video conferencing solutions as a way to address communication issues.
If you are a small business owner you will know that there never seem to be enough hours in the day. There are always a thousand jobs to be fitted in, and accounts are often the last thing that you want to worry about.
Close your eyes and think about the words “search engine optimisation”. What’s the first thing that you think of next? I’m betting that it’s Google. It’s perfectly natural, we all do it.
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