Category: Business Advice

Darren Upson, CMO, Tipalti Thirty-eight businesses close each day in the UK because they haven’t been paid on time. That’s not a rounding error or an isolated incident; it’s a government statistic, amounting to an estimated £11 billion of la

Businesses will need to decide whether to have their CNC machining capabilities in-house or outsource it to a specialist partner. For many smaller companies, outsourcing can be a great choice to unlock the highest levels of precision manufacturing without sign

A declined card leaves no angry review and may never produce a support ticket. The customer just disappears, leaving an online business to decide whether its fraud controls prevented a loss or quietly rejected a perfectly good sale. Some customer complaints ar

For a mid-market brand, EU growth in 2026 and 2027 is less about finding an international carrier and more about choosing a logistics setup that can scale without adding operational friction. As order volumes increase across multiple countries, the real pressu

For local and online small business owners, growth often hinges on moments where words do the work: a pitch, a sales conversation, a team huddle, or a quick introduction that decides whether a door stays open.

There are thousands of British firms with strong finances, innovative products and ambitious visions. But poor communication is holding companies and the nation’s economy back.

Late payment remains one of the heaviest drags on UK businesses. According to Department for Business and Trade research, it costs the UK economy almost £11 billion a year and affects more than 1.5 million businesses – firms waiting on cash they ha

Small sales teams often learn on the job. A new starter shadows a colleague, listens to a handful of calls and then starts speaking to customers. Coaching happens when the owner or sales manager has time. That can leave some reps with regular feedback and othe

How Finance Automation Cuts Invoice and Expense Administration Introduction: The Hidden Cost of Manual Finance Admin Invoice processing and expense administration rarely attract much attention, yet inefficient workflows consume staff time. Manual data entry, a

How UK Small Businesses Can Use Video Advertising to Compete With Bigger Brands Video used to be a luxury reserved for national campaigns and agency budgets. That gap has closed fast. UK video ad spend reached £9.3 billion in 2025, up 20% year over year.

Especially among SMEs, outsourcing is becoming more commonplace; here, Michelle O’Connor – Chief People Officer at Hive Support Services – discusses the benefits of doing so, alongside some of the challenges her team is seeing across the UK business sect

For a long time, payments were treated as a back-end problem: pick a processor, integrate it, move on. That assumption held while everyone did roughly the same thing — card payments, one or two acquirers, a standard checkout. It stopped holding once mark