What you need to know Starting and running a small business without having some form of credit is nearly impossible. Many small businesses do not make it simply because they’re under-capitalized. On...

Top tips for getting debtors to pay up. As a small business, you may find yourself in a position where you’re actually providing finance to bigger, wealthier firms through their unpaid accounts. For...

If you’re looking to enhance your business efficiency, you need to try an exercise in Lean Manufacturing. By identifying and focussing on activities that actually create value for your customer and ...

All too often, we think about marketing as being advertising and nothing else, but your marketing mix is going to determine your sales and it consists of a lot more than just advertising and promotion...

Overall business optimism index Small business optimism has risen to 96.9% according to the NFIB. Economist Bill Dunkelberg is quoted as saying that current economic growth in the US is based largely ...

When looking for ways of increasing profitability, there are only two real options: reducing your business costs or improving your turnover. Of course, that’s a lot easier said than done, but by bei...

If you don’t plan, you plan to fail. Nowhere is this truer than in small business budgeting. You need to know exactly where you stand in terms of the expense budgets you need to adhere to and the in...