Small Business Matters

Q&As with the Prime Minister - Part two: Tips for businesses, trademarks and more

As you may know, Prime Minister David Cameron recently visited the Intuit UK offices for a PM Direct event.  It was a great day and very informative.

For those of you that couldn’t attend, we’re publishing all the Q&As in a short video series.  Here’s the second part. 

Uncertainty in the solar panel industry

Coaching for small businesses

A great question from Intuit’s very own Alison Ball, our UK head of accountant programmes.

Winning business tips

If you’re a tweeter you may have noticed that just before Christmas Intuit was involved in the #12daysofSUB competition alongside StartUp Britain. Intuit donated a copy of QuickBooks SimpleStart to give away to the person who gave the best business tip each day over 12 days.

There were some brilliant tips so we thought it was worth sharing the winning ones here:

Are you ready to go global with your small business?

Over 65% of businesses are going global within their first year of trading, according to a survey carried out by small business support company Enterprise Nation and international trading platform Alibaba.com. 

 Below Emma Jones, Enterprise Nation founder, reveals a few headlines from the survey and presents a call to action for start ups and small business owners to attend the upcoming series of Go Global events during Global Entrepreneurship Week.

Headline results

In October we carried out a survey to find out how fast and well companies were going global. Here are the key findings:

Six ways to make your small business greener and save money

This article is written by Olaf Garvey, a business energy expert at Uswitchforbusiness

SMEs face significant challenges in surviving in the current economic climate, with most firms realising that savings need to be made at every level and in every department. One of the key areas in which SMEs can make savings is energy.

Although spending money on gas and electricity for business purposes is unavoidable,  small businesses can, to a certain extent at least, control how much they spend.

These are are some of the most effective ways to reduce spending on business energy.