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How to Build a Successful Onboarding Process for New Employees
It’s tempting for companies to think that hiring is the most difficult stage of the HR process. Indeed, recruitment is challenging, but once you’ve found the right person [...]
The 5 Best Low-Cost and Free Marketing Ideas for Your Small Business
The biggest concern for small businesses in the UK right now is the rising cost of living. 42% of small businesses say rising inflation is their biggest challenge, [...]
Tips for Choosing the Best Co-working Space for Your Small Business
Co-working spaces have grown in popularity over the last few years as companies embrace more flexible ways of working. Demand for flexible workspaces in the UK has risen [...]
Mini Budget – September 2022
The new Chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng's first budget meeting, saw him announcing his "growth plan for entering a new era" under the new leadership of our new PM, Liz [...]
Top Tips for Avoiding the Recruitment Skills Shortage
Recruitment is never easy–finding the best employees for your business requires talent, knowledge, and just a bit of luck–but the UK skills shortage is making this task even [...]
The Top 5 Business Software You Should Invest In To Improve Operations
Today, over half of North American and Europe businesses expect their spending on technology to increase yearly. In our tech-focused world, there’s no reason why small businesses shouldn’t [...]
Should You Be Doing Email Marketing? How To Decide
Email marketing can be a valuable tool to add to your content marketing arsenal. Communicating directly with customers can build brand loyalty and convince on-the-fence followers to purchase [...]
5 Funding Options Available to Small Businesses
Finding funding is one of the biggest obstacles that small business owners face when first starting. Often, the challenge of raising money can seem impossible. 29% of small business owners [...]
How Strong HR Policies Can Help You Deal with Workplace Conflict
Many business owners dread having to deal with workplace conflicts. Whether this is unhappy relationships between workers or disputes between managers and employees, you must deal with this [...]
What Happens if I Change My Business from a Sole Trader to a Limited Company?
Every small business owner’s aim is to make a profit. When this profit arrives and the business grows, the complexity of the business can also grow and with [...]
Should You Cut Your Marketing Budget Right Now?
It’s a tough time to be a small business. Along with rising interest rates and spiralling costs for energy and materials, companies must also consider how to tempt [...]
How Beneficial is the Government’s Help to Grow Scheme?
The Help to Grow scheme is a government subsidised scheme that has been in place since 2021. It aims to help SMEs boost productivity by providing management and [...]
How to Be Efficient in Business
For a business to be successful, it needs to be efficient. In the long run, wasted time and money can be a significant problem, reducing your ability to [...]
5 Ways to Attract Top Candidates to Your Business
The number of job vacancies in the UK rose throughout 2022, reaching a record 1.3 million in May. With far more job ads than candidates, it’s a tough [...]
7 Ways to Market Your Business
As a small business, getting your name out there is the only way you’re going to grow. Marketing allows you to build a consumer base, establish brand recognition, [...]
How Rising Interest Rates Could Impact Your Business
As the cost of living in the UK spirals, the Bank of England has raised interest rates to 1.25% – the highest rate for 13 years. It’s the [...]
We Are Expanding
After successfully running Accsys Accountants in Maidstone for over a decade, I purchased the practice in Rochester 2 years ago to help modernise it and take the business forward. From [...]
What Can Businesses Expect From Rishi Sunak’s Autumn Budget?
Businesses have not had an easy time in 2022, experiencing everything from supply chain disruption, energy price hikes, general inflation, and mass employee resignations. Today, 77% of SME [...]
Should I Offer My Employees Unlimited Holidays?
In 2020, a survey of British workers found that 79% experience work-related stress–up from 58% in 2018. Stress is a part of life, but it makes sense that [...]
How a 2022 Recession Could Affect Your Business
The UK’s economic outlook for 2022 doesn’t make for happy reading. Consumer spending is slowing as the cost of living increases and businesses are also seeing expenses rise, [...]
Why Your Business Could Benefit From a Co-Working Space
Co-working spaces have risen in popularity over the last five years. Globally, the number of co-working sites is expected to reach 40,000 by 2024, a rise of 24,000 [...]
The Pros and Cons of Offering Additional Employee Benefits Over Raising Salaries
The rising cost of living in the UK has affected everyone. In March 2022, 83% of adults reported seeing everyday costs rising, including energy prices, fuel, and food [...]
What Have We Learned from P&O’s Mass Sackings?
On March 17th 2022, P&O Ferries suspended their operations after firing almost 800 members of staff, a decision that provoked outrage across the UK, both from other business [...]
Should You Increase Employee Salaries With Inflation?
In March 2022, the UK’s inflation hit a record-breaking 7%, the highest for three decades. This has prompted a huge rise in the cost of living, with the [...]
Is your business efficient?
The worst thing about your business not being efficient is the opportunity cost the loss of other things you could be doing with the time. If your business [...]