5 reasons your customers aren’t paying you

Regardless of the relationships that you’re building with your customers, there are occasions when payments for a product or service aren’t arriving.

How to decide the best retail route for your brand

From selling to retailers, wholesalers and distributors, to using mail order and sales agents, the bottom line of your strategy is that you need to deliver your products to your target customer, via…

Investor Q&A: Mike Stevenson, Fuel Ventures

Fuel affords me the opportunity to follow my instinct and find and invest in the best founders, no matter which sector they’re operating in.

How to set up as a sole trader and prepare your self-assessment tax return

Tax preparation can be time-consuming and daunting, especially if you’re trying to run a business simultaneously.

How to start a new business

Starting a new business is a fantastic adventure, but there’s also a lot to think about and plan. Here’s everything you need to consider as you create your new venture.

Change is easy

You don’t always need a crisis to force your hand. One of the critical things a crisis does is it makes what previously looked risky no longer look so risky in the context.

Be better than you were before

As you prepare your companies’ journey into the post-Covid World here's five things your brand needs to be if you want to be better than you were before.

The five things that make a business investable

Finding the right investor for a business is a bit like dating: you have to kiss a few frogs before you find your prince.

Start-ups and business financing – the perils

Sometimes this process can be problematic and if you have ever had an application refused or an account closed without explanation then the reason behind it could be rather sinister.