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How to prepare your website for Black Friday traffic
A website will typically crash when it is overloaded and cannot respond quickly enough. It could also mean that your customers can’t buy what they’re looking for on Black...
Ten ways to get better at networking
Networking is vital for business, exchanging details often doesn’t lead to real connection. Finding context in an interaction, starting up conversations in everyday places and asking the right questions...
Help drive holiday discovery: your guide to Amazon Ads during peak shopping season – Small Business UK
As the holiday shopping season approaches, Amazon Ads offers solutions to help businesses of all sizes reach customers during these peak shopping periods. Shopping events during the holiday season...
What is the best cloud storage for UK small business? – Small Business UK
What is cloud storage? Cloud storage is storing data and applications on remote servers and accessing them via the internet, as opposed to saving or installing them on your...
How UK sustainability reporting standards will affect your SME – Small Business UK
The UK Sustainability Reporting Standards (UK SRS) will be introduced in 2026. Though it’s aimed at larger firms, SMEs will have reporting responsibilities if they supply to these larger...
Settlement agreements in the redundancy process – Small Business UK
Key takeaways: Settlement agreements can save employers from employment tribunal, which reduces cost, time and the potential for reputational damage. As an employer, you should consider whether, how and...
A complete guide to small business finance – Small Business UK
It used to be that your only option if you needed finance was to go cap-in-hand to your bank, hoping for an overdraft or a loan. And if you...
EORI number: What it is and how to get or check one
If you’re considering growing your business internationally, or if you have suppliers based overseas, you’ll probably already have heard of an EORI number. Before Brexit, you didn’t need an...
Five steps for small businesses Making Tax Digital – Small Business UK
What is Making Tax Digital? Making Tax Digital (MTD) is the government’s plan to shift paper-based tax reporting online, spelling the end of form-filling for millions of UK businesses....
Tax advantages of a limited company or sole trader?
Being a sole trader means that you run your own business as an individual and are essentially self-employed. This is the most popular way of trading in the UK, with...
