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Cheers! Creating the best in alcohol-free drinks
Anna Chalov and Nataliya Peretrutova, above, founded Bemuse in 2021. Here, they tell us how they went from start-up to success and begin by...
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Chat GPT: Friend or foe?
With ChatGPT able to write academic papers and even fool teachers, it may be easy to assume it spells the end of the copywriter and content...
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Female entrepreneurship and the need for tech skills
By Sheila Flavell, above, COO, FDM Group The Alison Rose Review of Female Entrepreneurship revealed that female entrepreneurs founded...
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How SMEs can compete with their industry’s Goliath
By Jason Ball, below, founder of B2B marketing agency Considered Content Is your biggest competitor a monster of gargantuan...
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How business can take advantage of new flexible working legislation
By Niki Fuchs, below, Managing Director, Office Space in Town (OSiT) Proposal of a new legislation was announced late last year giving...
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Professional services firms need a digital project management reset to deliver on time and within expectation
The professional services industry is growing at an unprecedented rate. Globally, it’s estimated to be worth more than $8 billion by the end...
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How employee ownership could give your business a boost
Agencies need to be people-first. From staff to clients to partners, people dictate whether an agency succeeds or fails. Our vision has always...
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Small Business Saturday gears up for ten-year anniversary
This year’s most inspirational British small businesses have been revealed by the Small Business Saturday campaign, as it marks its ten-year...
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Growing number of SMEs seek finance to achieve sustainability goals
New research shows SMEs have a heightened focus on finding finance to boost their sustainability, with 65% of commercial mortgage brokers and 76%...
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30% of aspiring business owners put off by cost of launching a business
Two new surveys, one of 500 business owners and senior decision-makers to gauge their confidence in their business’s future and the other of 1000...
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How one couple created the £22m milkshake
SME Magazine recently caught up with Andy and Jodie Howie, above, founders of Shaken Udder , which produces a range of milkshakes sold around the...
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Three strategies to manage employee stress
By Sarah Carter, Head of Account Management, Onebright Stress is part of every job. It’s the way our body naturally reacts to being under...
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Four in five employees say employer should help with cost of living crisis
As the cost of living crisis takes its toll and inflation continues to hit new highs, research from Canada Life reveals that four in five (80%)...
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Bournemouth the best place to start a small business in UK
By Les Roberts, Group Content Manager at Bionic Starting a small business can come with a huge number of different hurdles to jump over. It’s...
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Show us the data, say employees
New research has revealed a clear opportunity for businesses to improve how they use technology and data to monitor and assess the performance of...
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Portas: Community is at the heart of British high streets
The time is ripe for the revival and reinvention of British high streets. However, while the majority of UK consumers (81%) believe that the...
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Five tips to help SMEs forecast for success in a downturn
By Tom O’Brien, above, Founder, FinplicityFive Brokers surveyed by iwoca’s latest quarterly SME Expert Index say over three quarters (77%) of...
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Growth off menu for SMEs as cost crunch bites – report
Hopes of a small business-led economic recovery from the pandemic may be under threat, according to the SBI report for Q2 2022 from the...
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Toxic cocktail: FSB warns inflation will undermine economic recovery
Responding to the news that the consumer prices index rose 10.1%, the highest since records began in 1997, and producer price inflation rose 22.6%...
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The three common causes of start-up failure – and how to confront them
By Matt Clifford, co-founder of Entrepreneur First and co-author of How to be a Founder: How Entrepreneurs can Identify, Fund and Launch...
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Small Business Commissioner issues late payments warning
In a recent podcast , The Small Business Commissioner, Liz Barclay, above, issued a warning that without confidence in cash flow, the UK’s...
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Seven ways social media can help your SME
By Kelly Liu, above, Sustainability & Digital Impact Director, BT Enterprise In the digital-first age, social media is a platform that...
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How best to represent your business in court
By Amanda Hamilton, CEO, National Association of Licenced Paralegals (NALP) There are times when a business needs specialist legal help;...
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APM: UK business missing an opportunity for growth
UK businesses were hit by rising numbers of employees leaving their jobs voluntarily during 2021, with many employers facing the prospect of a...
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Bank overdrafts rising as small businesses face financial strain
The value of overdrafts used by small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) have grown 18% from £8.3bn in May 2021 to £9.8bn in May 2022 as...