New year, new you. Sorry, we had to say it. But in all seriousness, a new year is a great opportunity to take a look at your finances and reevaluate how you spend, save and think about money. Read More

Running your own business isn’t easy, and don’t let anybody tell you otherwise. It’s true that you are no longer answerable to your regular boss but that has its downsides. Read More

Starting a new business, especially for the first time, can be daunting. Sometimes providing the service itself can seem like the easy part, taking into consideration the demands involved with setting up bank accounts, registering with the appropriate authorities Read More

The attitude given off by some business owners that employees can always be replaced is not only uncaring, but is short-sighted too from a management point of view. Time spent training replacements is all time that you’ll never get Read More

No matter how good a product or service is, it’s not going to sell if nobody knows it is there. This is probably the most fundamental and obvious truism known to the business world. And yet so many entrepreneurs Read More

Keeping our personal finances under control is a fairly basic and fundamental requirement for all of us, and yet so many allow theirs to descend into chaos. It is easy to lecture others when we might not be familiar Read More

At risk of stating the obvious, having an online presence isn’t the same thing as running an online business. Most companies these days, large and small, will have a website or at least a dedicated Facebook page peddling their Read More

We hear much about big business and its influence, for better or for worse, over governments and major global events, but did you know that small business contributes approximately one half of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the Read More

Meeting start-up costs is for many people the single biggest challenge when setting up in business. Before selling a product or a service it first has to be available to be sold, which depending upon what it is you Read More

Depending upon the nature of your small business, there is a very good chance that you will need some financial assistance to help you along the way – especially at the beginning. Read More