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- A guide to business insurance
- Overview of key small-business insurances, such as public liability, professional indemnity and building and contents cover.
- See more in: business, insurance, commercial, cover, expenses, public, liability, indemnity, professional, legal, small, building, contents, employers
- How to find an accountant
- How good is your accounting, bookkeeping and tax knowledge? Probably not good enough to avoid hiring an accountant, says Mark Lee of the Tax Advice Network.
- See more in: tax, bookkeepers, bookkeeping, tax advisors, tax advisers, guides, accountancy
- Five ways to make money – if only you had some
- Chris Baguley of Bridging Finance Limited vets some popular ways of making money.
- See more in: financing, funding, capital, buy a business, property, investment, guides
- Four in 10 prefer being flexible to flush
- Flexibility is almost as important to workers than money, according to a small-business survey.
- See more in: flexible working, working hours, employees, employment, recruitment, perks, news, pay, salaries, wages
- Trevor Baylis
- How many professional inventors can you name apart from Trevor Baylis? And you can't include Dr Emmett Brown from Back to the Future. Trevor doesn't want a monopoly though - he set up a foundation to help other inventors.
- See more in: Trevor Baylis, inventors, profiles
- Getting your website high on internet searches
- The equivalent of getting your shop on the high street instead of a back alley in the middle of nowhere, getting your website high on internet search engines can make the world of difference to your website - and your business as a whole.
- See more in: websites, SEO, search engines, internet, online, IT, guides
- Care homes
- It's not the most obvious entry into the world of business but it can be both profitable and personally rewarding.
- See more in: care homes, nursing homes, elderly, disabled, guides
- Yes – you can beat the credit squeeze
- A guide, written by an experienced finance broker, to managing your small-business finances while credit is hard to come by.
- See more in: credit crunch, credit squeeze, finance, brokers, finance brokers, banks, credit, guides
- Relocate to... Manchester
- The northern hub for life sciences, financial services, professional services and the creative industries, this former industrial city has transformed itself.
- See more in: relocate, relocation, Manchester, regional, regions, guides
- Business blogs
- Rowena Forbes, managing director of writing agency All Words, explains why you should be blogging for your business.
- See more in: blogging, blogs, blog, marketing, advertising, copywriting, guides
- Small-business financing: venture capital
- Mary Erb from leading corporate law firm Heatons explains how to raise small-business finance to turn your business ambitions into profitable reality.
- See more in: venture capital, VCs, finance, capital, funds, guides
- Marketing agencies
- It’s all about who you know if you want to buy a marketing business, according to the founders of The Minimart marketing agency.
- See more in: Marketing, marketing agencies, direct marketing, creative, digital, guides, industries, agency
- Resources guide: raising finance
- Money should not necessarily be an object, as there are no shortage of organisations out there to help you raise finance to start or buy a business.
- See more in: resources, links, directory, buy a business, start a business, startups, finance
- Starting an online business – Gillian Nissim
- Starting a business is hard enough as it is – Gillian managed it while juggling the arguably trickier job of raising two children.
- See more in: online, internet, recruitment, startups, start a business, work from home, interviews
- Buying a care home – Ron Snijders
- He had plenty of experience in the healthcare industry and one of his colleagues started their own business, so he thought - why not?
- See more in: care homes, nursing, elderly, disabled, buy a business, interviews
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