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New Gateways to Finance for SMEs
Since Royal Assent of the Small Enterprise, Employment Act last week, analysts are predicting bright forecasts for the SME sector in the future. Ten of the UK's largest financial...
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Women Are Particularly Behind In the SME Sector
Of all 206 members of companies in The London Stock Exchange. just 13.6 percent of them are women. Research has shown that outsid of the SME sector, there have been more...
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Government Candidates Address the Future of SMEs
At the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), George Osborne, Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband present plans for small businesses, work pensions and late payments. Although this conference...
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Financial Lending Through a mobile Application? Westpac Pioneers Global SME...
Lola, or Live Online Lending Application, has been designed by Westpac to help SMEs stream financial and non-financial applications and enable banks to move their...
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New Shared Parental Leave Could Shake Up British Firms
The introduction of Parental Leave rules on the 5th April will affect working patterns of British firms and could welcome costly discrimination claims, experts warn. Statistics...
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How Will the New Budget Benefit SMEs?
Wednesday 18th March was the day George Osborne delivered his sixth and final budget in the current parliament. The budget is a financial statement delivered to the House of Commons each...
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Small Business Saturday: December Date Accounced
In the third year of the national initiative to support local businesses, Small Business Saturday will return on December the 5th with events from April onward leading up to the official date on...
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Cyber-Attack Threats Towards SMEs Increase
The costs of a cyber-attack on a small business can be detrimental, where the average cost for a security reach is between £65,000 to £115,000, figures have doubled since 2013. As...
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Small Business Build the Confidence To Invest
According to John Wandishin has shown that 54% of small businesses are now investing more into their business instead of stockpiling cash. Wandishin also predicts that entreprenuers are being...
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SMEs Unlock the Benefits of Auto Enrolment
British SMEs are discovering the benefits of auto enrollment. In the past many have missed out on the valuable benefits of enrolling onto their workplace pension scheme. The new...
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A Quarter of UK Businesses Shun the Power of Digital Skills
Image from b2bmarketing Robust recent research released by Lloyd's Banking Group and Go ON UK (a digital skills charity) has confirmed that around 1.2 million small and medium businesses lack...
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SMEs versus Big Businesses: A Step Towards Equality?
Image from Apparelopolis Last week, the Chancellor answered the call for a stricter crackdown on multinational firms that void taxes in Britain. George Osborne launched 'Google Tax' as a means of...
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The Potential of Young People in SMEs
In a recent report, Source Marketing has identified the potential of young people in the world of business and marketing. Despite the rise of youth unemployment, Source Marketing has...
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Political Parties in Propaganda Battle
image from the Huffington post Karren Brady, best known for being on The Apprentice, football executive and Tory ambassador for small businesses is currently endorsing a letter...
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Ten Questions Every SME Should Be Asking Their Candidate as Elections Approach
Image from the Guardian The progress of SMEs in the UK economy has been highlighted and acknowledged in our blog posts from the past few weeks. We have demonstrated how George Osborne's...
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Ebay Postal Costs are Hindering SMEs
image from helpline numbers One third of British businesses believe that the cost of postage and delivery is holding back their business, a survey has revealed this week. More precisely, 31% of...
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SMEs Are Wasting 5 Billion a Year On Administration
A recent report has shown that that the average British small business dedicates up to 28 hours a week on administration tasks and consequently helps to pump 5 billion pounds out of the UK...
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UK Small Businesses Still Battling Card Breaches
image from A report has stated that Malware and SQL injection hacks are still huge burdens on the small business sector.With nearly nine out of ten UK card breaches in 2014 coming from...
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SMEs Should Embrace Global Territories
image from As SMEs are more used to accessing the global audience online, customers are becoming more demanding from all over the world. SMEs are beginning to understand the benefits of...
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Immigrants Help The Economy by Creating Jobs and Paying Taxes: Let's Welcome...
Image from Immigration Street Legal In the heat of the leader's debate last week, there was perhaps one, if any, learning points that we could extract from Nigel Farage's ramblings on...
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