Category: Business

  • How To Write The Simplest Business Plan In 5 Steps

    How To Write The Simplest Business Plan In 5 Steps

    Have you ever produced a business plan? There are plenty of cookie cutter templates out there. But then again, if the production of a business plan meant success, why wouldn’t we all be spending days agonising over one? It’s because business changes every day. Forecasts (which are effectively what business plans are) are rarely right.…

  • A for Accounting

    A for Accounting

    In 2016 I decided to start an accounting firm to help entrepreneurs, micro entities and those thinking of starting a business get their accountancy needs done for a lot less than your average local accountancy firm would charge. I decided to call it AccountsCheap because I figured it might as well do what it says on…

  • How To Find Government Contract Work To Bid For In The UK

    How To Find Government Contract Work To Bid For In The UK

    According to Enterprise Nation, there are £75 billion worth of UK Government contracts to be had in the UK right now. And the great news is that you can search for, access and bid for any of it from a new beta site just launched on Gov.uk Enterprise Nation interviewed Philip Sinclair, the man behind…

  • Reality of Business – The One Per Cent Rule

    Reality of Business – The One Per Cent Rule

    If you could build a great product for a specific audience, spend some time finding them, and then tell them all about how great it is, 1% (at most) will buy it. Why? Before we find the answer, why are we in any way shocked by such a low figure? Yes, it’s a massive generalisation,…