How to grow a home-based business into something moreRunning your home-based business can be a great way of keeping overheads down and be extremely profitable. To grow, it may be tempting to try to increase turnover by expanding your business and moving into leased, office accommodation. Protecting ...
There has been a surge in mid-life entrepreneurship in the UK over the past two years. More than 15% of the UK workforce are self-employed currently. Being self-employed or a sole trader offers individuals potentially uncapped rewards for their hard work. You can choose...
The most common mistakes people make when becoming self-employed. We are sure to have left something out but here we go!Taking the leap into self employment is an important decision and we understand that here at MENTA. The average person spends roughly 90,000 hours working during thei...
Am I ready to become self-employed? 4.3 million people are self-employed in the UK. Sheffield and Exeter Universities conducted research into those who were self employed and those who were employed, the conclusion of the study was that self employed people are happier. The finding...
John Clarke, MENTA business coach and trainerHow to be your own boss in 2022. What is ‘Massive Monday’? It refers to the first working Monday of the new year and is the day that most people look for a new role in the UK. Figures show that 1 in 5 people look for a new job in January. But ...
That time between Christmas and New Year is when many choose resolutions for the year ahead. It is an ideal time to reassess your personal goals and how these relate to finances and business activities.Chris Kelly from MENTA patron Jacobs Allen Chartered Accountants writes: At th...
December is the month to kickstart 2022 with a journalist focus on small businesses for the next couple of months, starting with Black Friday and running right through to Valentines’ Day.We’ve put a special ‘Boost PR Package’ together with our PR partners JournoLink, to ...
In recent years business growth has become a hot topic and a whole industry has developed, of experts providing advice on growth.However, the old motto ‘turnover is vanity, profit is sanity, but cash is king’ still rings true and I have seen a lot of sustainable businesses successfully adopt this ap...
It’s in the best interest of your company to have a clear recruitment or equality policy so you and your staff can follow the policy as set. If you have a recruitment or equality policy and you want to deviate from it, then you’ll need to be able to justify not following the process set out in the p...
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