How many of us ordinary folk know our way around the thorny subject of business finance – so many more options these days beyond the old fashioned method of applying to the high street bank, cap in hand with the business plan tucked into our smartest suit and best titfer. There are the popular invoice…

Thinking about how to sell your business UK based? Discover the key steps, common pitfalls and expert tips to help you prepare for a successful sale.

The world of business looks nothing like it did a generation ago. From landlords navigating new legal responsibilities to small farms opening their gates to visitors, today’s entrepreneurs face a more complex landscape than ever.

You need to have a good idea about how to protect your business when things have gone wrong. In this very challenging business world, having the right insurance policies can help to save a working empire if something catastrophic occurs.

There’s a great deal more to running a business than most folk think. It’s very easy to imagine orders flooding in through the front door and the bank account rolling in cash. But to get from the one to the other in a linear manner is not always as easy and straightforward as that. Much…

There are many small businesses being run from family houses and apartments, up and down the country. Obviously we all like to think they are being run legally and safely. Knowing how strapped for cash many new would-be entrepreneurs are at the start of their enterprise, it is quite possible that not all of them…

Whatever type of business you run, it has to be operated from premises of some sort. That may be a factory, warehouse, a house or shed. Any type of property that has a business run from it effectively becomes a commercial property. For this reason, separate commercial property insurance is recommended for if the very…

In every kind of business operation, from even the tiniest little back bedroom set up, there may come a time when someone wants to make a claim against the business. So from the get-go, it is wise and in some instances, essential, to take out certain types of insurance policies. Take public liability – this…

You just never know what’s around the next corner, at any given day. One minute you’re happily filling your stores with wonderful products you’ve made or bought in to sell and the next minute could find you scrabbling about in the midst of a hurricane or other weather related problem. The possibility of damage to…

Every business, whatever the size, will need storage of some sort at some stage or other.   At the beginning that storage could be Mum’s spare bedroom, or even half the wardrobe in said bedroom.  However, once a production line starts properly, then there could well be goods coming in, ingredients or chemicals for mixing, or…