6 useful websites for small businesses

6 useful websites for small businesses

At Omni Chartered Accountants, we are proud to be involved in mentoring programmes for new business start-ups.

Whether you are a start-up or a successful business seeking further growth, we understand the importance of SMEs around the UK having a wealth of useful resources at their disposal, not only to keep up to date with important business news, but also ever-changing trends.

Business is constantly evolving the more resources of knowledge the better.

To help, we’ve compiled a list of our favourite business resource websites for your reference. Be sure to have a look at them!

In no particular order:

1. Smallbusiness.co.uk provides solid sound advice and help guides aimed at startups and small businesses in the UK. They feature a section dedicated to questions answered by small business experts, covering a whole range of pertinent subjects.

The website is a must-read for any up and coming business in need of financial, business management, or technology advice.

2. Start Up Donut provides up to date and useful information for small businesses. They cover a wide range of important business topics, denoted by several coloured donuts, including startup ideas, business planning, sales & marketing, and IT.

Their in-depth blog is interesting and informative, definitely worth a read!

3. Businesszone is a great website full of up to date business articles on a wide range of topics, including finance, technology and business regulation. They feature a business trends section to help businesses keep ahead of the game in an easy to read format. You can sign up for a free account to access their articles and post general business questions.

4. SMARTA was founded by some of the UK’s top entrepreneurs and acts as a support platform for business owners and entrepreneurs. Their blog section always has interesting content designed to get you thinking —with tips and tricks to help you grow your business.

5.  Business is Great is a government owned website that provides inspiration to start-ups and advice for how they can grow and become successful businesses. With a ‘new announcements’ section, you can view up to date news about stories that affect business in the 21st century.

They also offer a handy resources section to help accelerate the growth of your business, along with a clever business support tool that takes you through a number of questions to assess the type of support available to you. Well worth a look.

6. Business Matters  has over 50,000 annual subscribers. Offering a wide range of support in different areas such as setting up your business, financing your business and legal issues, this magazine is UK-centric and has a great section based on businesses that are ‘Made in Britain’.

We hope you find this useful and beneficial, Omni is here to help you and your business to be successful – why not take our Accountancy Savings Challenge today and find out how much you could save!