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Four Steps To Calculate The Size of Your Target Market

Knowing your customer base is essential, meaning a pivotal starting point with your new business should be to size up your market to find out how many customers you have the potential to sell to.

Seven Considerations For Starting Up A Retail Business

Retailing is one of the biggest and fastest-growing sectors and is a major contributor to the UK economy. There are around three million people currently employed in retail in the UK.

What Are The Cyber Security Risks For Small Businesses?

Cyber-criminals are constantly scaling up their efforts and have discovered that small businesses are easy pickings for stealing data. Small businesses are easier to hack than big corporations and they’re often connected to larger supply chains.

The Most Common Mistakes SME Owners Make and How To Avoid Them

Around 60% of small businesses fail within the first five years, so it is worth finding out the key mistakes business owners often make, and how to avoid them.

A Guide To Becoming A Contractor

Have you ever thought about leaving your full-time job to become a contractor? There are some real benefits to becoming a contractor, however it is not a decision to be taken lightly.

What holiday must you offer employees in a small business?

The sun is out, shorts are on and the sunscreen has been applied; summer is here. And with it comes the stampede of employees who rush out the door with suitcase in hand, having booked time off to enjoy the heat.

How to prepare your business for summer?

How to grow your SME business

What are the advantages of being an older entrepreneur?

Many associate entrepreneurship with young, aspiring business people who funnel their bags of energy into their dream plan in the hopes that it will one day become reality.

How to plan for buying a business