How invoice finance works: Discounting & factoring for UK Businesses
Invoice finance enables you to get cash upfront for unpaid invoices instead of having to wait for the customer to pay the bill, which could...
Rachel Bridge
Rachel Bridge is a business author, SME expert and public speaker. She has written five best-selling books about entrepreneurs. Rachel is the former Enterprise Editor of The Sunday Times and now writes an opinion column about SMEs for The Sunday Telegraph.
A guide to customer bonds
Customer bonds are a fairly new, innovative way to raise money from the people who know and trust you best – your customers. The idea...
Business credit cards: Choosing a credit card for your company
Credit cards have long been an entrepreneur’s secret weapon when all other forms of funding have failed to materialise (asset finance, business loans, business overdraft...
Intellectual property protection: What you need to know
Wehn it comes to intellectual property protection if you create something new, whether it is a new product or service, or a new logo or...
What are business angels?
Business Angels are private individuals who invest in start-ups and early stage businesses with good growth prospects in exchange for a share of the company's...
How to sell your products to supermarkets and retailers
There was a time when the retailers were not very interested in small businesses because they could not supply on the mass scale needed to...
How to choose the right route to market
Just as important as deciding what to sell, is deciding how to sell it. There is no right or wrong answer here - different routes...
What are profit margins?
The first two words you need to learn when starting a business are 'net profit'. Doing business is not about how many widgets you can...
5 Pricing strategies to price your product or service
Choosing the price at which to sell your product or service is one of the hardest decisions to make when starting up a business. Too...
How to get paid on time by your customers
Late payment – or worse, non-payment – is the bane of start-ups and small firms. According to the latest BACS survey, small and medium-sized businesses...
How to get your website noticed
There is no point in creating a fantastic website if nobody can find it. Sadly it is no longer enough to simply ‘put it out...
How to hire an employee
No matter how efficient and hard-working you are, if your business is going well, there is going to come a time when you will need...
How to manage your cash flow
Cash flow is the number one thing to get right when starting up a business. Indeed a staggering 90% of small business failures are due...
Everything need to know when buying a franchise
Want to run a business but don’t have a business idea of your own, or just prefer the comfort of working with an established concept?...
How to open a business bank account
All business bank accounts are not created equal. It can be well worth spending some time early on to find the best business bank account...