Great Business

For the past 18 months Business in You has been helping entrepreneurs to start and run their businesses. Nearly 20,000 companies have signed up to receive our monthly newsletters and over half a million unique visitors have come to the website. But now, as part of a move to make it simpler and easier for small businesses [...]

In partnership with leading football clubs, KICKOFFinBUSINESS was launched nationwide last year to provide valuable support, free at point of access, for anyone over 16 starting up on their own. Whether employed, unemployed, already started or simply thinking of Self Employment as an option, KOIB can help. Qualified and accredited field based support is expensive [...]

Yorkshire businessman and Chief Executive of Grant Thornton, Scott Barnes, gives his top 10 tips for small businesses and entrepreneurs to get ahead… 1. It may sound obvious, but enjoy what you do – as a business owner, you’re likely to be putting in long hours, so you need to really love what you’re doing [...]

Kevin Appleton, Chairman of Northampton-based building supplies firm Travis Perkins, tells us what he wishes he’d known when he was starting out in business… I started my career 30 years ago, working the night shift in Slough sorting office. I have come a long way since then, thanks to some vital pieces of advice that [...]

In the sixth and final of our series of blogs on communication, website guru James McCobb shares his top tips for maximising your web presence. The web is the first point of contact many people have with your business – and with self-build sites costing less than your first set of business cards and requiring [...]

In the fifth of our series of blogs on communication, design chief Patrick Eastwood describes how to find and brief a graphic design agency. Sooner or later, most businesses will decide to work with professional graphic designers – perhaps to create a visual identity, a website, promotional literature or packaging. The key to success is [...]

Prime Minister David Cameron’s enterprise adviser Lord Young published his second government report entitled ‘Growing your Business’ at 10 Downing Street on Monday 13th May. The report highlights how important it is for small businesses to know how to hire effectively. In an attempt to boost employment Downing Street asked the Institute of Recruiters, IOR, [...]

In the fourth of our series of blogs on communication, digital guru Chris Reed looks at how to use LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter to reach new customers Social and digital media has now become a part of everyday life. There are currently over 30 million Facebook users in the UK and over 10 million each [...]

At Intuit, we firmly believe in the power of mentoring so as part of  Great Business Mentoring Month, we wanted to take a closer look at mentoring and how it could work for you. At last year’s MADE Festival, we matched members of the Intuit 100Up group – an established community of up-and-coming entrepreneurs – with [...]

Clive Lewis, Head of Enterprise at ICAEW, a global organisation for accountants, believes there is a lot to learn about business from popular drama and fiction. Soap operas offer a concentrated version of reality in their storylines and none more so than the Archers, the world’s longest running soap opera. Set in the fictional farming [...]