Blogs
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 [...]
Feeling Isolated
It's lonely at the top – running a business is not a common position. In their work-life, most people have a boss or a manager who can guide [...]
Is there a lack of vision in your business?
How often do you stop and ask yourself where your business is going? If it is regularly, then you are in the minority. So many business owners plod [...]
Can you move forward from business failure?
I read the sad news that Rooks Butchers had gone into administration making 155 people redundant. Click here to read more. The business was founded in 1965 and [...]
Spring Budget Announcement
We were one of the millions eager to hear what Rishi Sunak's Spring Budget would reveal for businesses and we have filtered through the information to make it [...]
Are there business lessons to be learnt from The Apprentice? – Sadly, I don’t think so
This may be a case of self-delusional nostalgia, but it feels like during the early years of the BBC’s The Apprentice, the show was more of a business [...]
Is growth right for your business?
Growing your business is usually the main focus of most business articles - to be honest, it’s often the focus of our articles and blogs too - but [...]
Action to Take Before The End Of The Tax Year – Individuals
As we approach the end of another tax year, it’s time to consider the things you should be doing to ensure you don’t lose out on the allowances [...]
Prices are on the rise – are you passing these on?
The price of everything is rising fast; the stories are everywhere, if you listen hard enough. The price of wood is now 64% more than it was a [...]
No Work-Life Balance
We know of lots of small business owners that live their work. That isn’t a shock. When you are the sole person responsible for making sure that your [...]
Being Disorganised
A simple fact of life – good things happens to the organised, bad things happen to the disorganised. Have you ever noticed that the best tables in the [...]
Lack of Understanding of Finances
Most business owners are motivated to run a business because of the money. They want to provide for their families, build a better life and put away something [...]