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How to handle inflation as a sole trader
Sole traders have had an especially difficult few years as inflation surges. We’ve got three tips to help lighten the load for your sole trader business. As inflation began surging in early 2022, sole traders were initially able to offset the effects by changing their clients more. But their ability to keep up was limited: as of March this year, we ...
Forecast your cash flow
When you come up against a challenge, like a drop in income or sales, it’s important to keep an eye on money coming in and going out. Cash flow forecasting can help you avoid financial trouble, plan for cash shortcomings, and make informed decisions about borrowing. The Cash Flow Forecaster tool helps you understand your business health. Gather your financial statements and ...
What is Marketing? And How are you Marketing?
What is Marketing? Branding Your ‘brand’ is more than a clever name, logo and colour scheme.Although these things are crucial to your brand, you must also think about the culture of your business where your clients are concerned.Your customer service is a large part of your brand — this includes how that phone is answered, how you treat customers and how you ...
COVID-19 Leave Support Scheme ending
Now that isolation requirements have been removed for people testing positive for COVID-19, the COVID-19 Leave Support Scheme will end. You can still apply if your employee was in self-isolation before 13 August. Find out more - external link ...
Landlords, do you know the rules for ending a tenancy?
if you sign a tenancy agreement on or after 11 February 2021, you cannot end a fixed or periodic tenancy without an acceptable reason which is set out by the Residential Tenancies Act 1986 (the Act). Some scenarios which allow landlords to end a tenancy are: the owner is putting the property on the market within 90 days after the termination date the ...