An Essential List of Steps to Get Out of Debt

If you’re in debt, you’re not alone. In fact, according to a 2019 report from the Federal Reserve, the average American household owes nearly $7,000 in credit card debt. But just because debt is common doesn’t mean it’s easy to deal with. If you’re struggling to keep up with your payments, it can feel like you’re drowning in a sea of numbers with no end. But there is light at the end of the tunnel

SEON’s new CMO brings a wealth of experience and knowledge

Building on its record-breaking Series B investment, SEON has hired Matt Davies, formerly VP of Customer Marketing at Splunk as its new Chief Marketing Officer in a move that highlights the company’s marketing-first approach to business development. We caught up with Matt to learn more about his journey and his new role.

How feeling like an imposter can actually have a positive impact on your business

We’ve all struggled with feeling like we’re not good enough, and it’s common for employees to end up feeling like an imposter in the workplace – but according to Mike Jones, founder of Better Happy, these feelings of insecurity can actually benefit your business.

How to prepare for business travel in a post pandemic world

Over the last few weeks, we’ve surveyed our customer base, with the findings indicating that most UK businesses are starting to return to pre-pandemic levels of business travel, with plans to increase their business travel further in the future. Even international travel, which is still somewhat disrupted, is slowly increasing. These seem reflective of the wider UK too as the country gets to grips with a hybrid way of working with more miles on the road and in the air, while home working remains here to stay.

Top Tips to Market Research

To be a successful entrepreneur means that you have to run a successful business. That in turn requires your business to sell products or services that customers want to buy and at a price that they are prepared to pay. In addition, the profit margins that you make need to be sufficient to support a growing business.

Startup Equity: How Best to Manage It

Launching a business is not easy. As a young entrepreneur, you have to focus on different areas. Although your primary responsibilities include empowering and scaling a business, you must focus on equity. Equity management becomes critical when considering investors for funding your business.

WIN! WIN! WIN!

We are giving away 2 tickets to this year’s Hustle Awards and a bottle of champagne! You have three chances to win as we will be giving away a pair of tickets each week throughout July.

Why creating emotional loyalty could be the key to SMB growth

As the cost of living continues to climb and a potential recession looms, small businesses are facing new challenges. The pandemic, which already brought about an accelerated shift to online shopping, has piled the pressure on high street brands to keep pace with online counterparts.

How FIDO’s approach to authentication reveals a confusion between identity and access

The Fast Identity Online (FIDO) Alliance – a group of technology companies including Apple, Google and Microsoft – announced its commitment to supporting passwordless authentication across its products.

Employers can help with the cost of living – without giving pay rises

The soaring cost of living will be affecting many employees in numerous ways and having a detrimental impact on their health and wellbeing. In fact, research has found that 72% of those seeking debt help say debt makes them ill and 77% of employees say that money worries impact them at work. However, there are steps that employers can take to help employees make their money go further.

Exchange startup support scheme on the hunt for next generation of tech trailblazers

Exchange, has opened applications to find its fourth cohort of tech entrepreneurs who are disrupting and leading their fields. The tech start-up support scheme has seen its members scale, raise millions of pounds in funding, create hundreds of jobs, and win a series of national awards

PP Control & Automation launches PP+ to help bridge ‘valley of death’

A UK manufacturing outsourcing specialist is aiming to help domestic businesses cross the well-publicised ‘valley of death’.

What tech startups are doing to combat Parkinson’s disease

Startups Magazine looks at the amazing work that startups are doing with AI and other tech to bolster the medical world’s diagnosis, treatment, and overall understanding of Parkinson’s disease.

Bringing an idea to market

The demand for app development doesn’t show signs of getting slower any sooner. As apps are an accessible type of technology, where people can have access from anywhere, the consumers’ interest in this technology is vital. Therefore, many companies are taking this trend and changing their traditional environment to mobile for effective business positioning. But developing an app isn’t easy and takes time and teamwork for a positive outcome.

How to grow your startup with email marketing using Gmail

You’ve got a great idea for a startup, and you’re ready to make it happen. You don’t have a surefire marketing strategy in mind yet. But you know one thing – you gotta have an active email list ASAP.

Content creator platform building steady incomes and connecting with new audiences

The multibillion-pound industry of beauty vloggers, game streamers, fitness influencers, newsletter writers, podcast producers, and social media stars who make up the ‘creator economy,’ was around well before the pandemic, but since 2020 the economy has flourished, seeing more people than ever seek out and invest in digital tools to promote their new creative projects.

Profitability vs. growth: the key for a technology company to survive

It is no secret that the technology sector is not going through the best of times. We have seen several unicorns make drastic decisions about their businesses, announcing layoffs and exiting markets in which they were present in order to reduce costs and preserve their liquidity.

Only a quarter of accountants offer cash flow support to SMEs

Accounting firms are missing a key opportunity to adopt Open Banking to help meet the needs of small businesses facing a cash flow squeeze, according to a report by iwoca, one of Europe’s largest small business lenders, and AccountingWeb.

Recycled active-swimwear range empowers women with freedom of adventure

La Bom, the Spanish/British sustainable swimwear brand for all active women, launches today in the UK and with the company launch it showcases a collection of active ready, fully recycled ECONYL swimwear.

Protecting your business when a cybersecurity incident strikes

Ensuring that businesses are properly prepared to react to a cyber attack, and to secure assets and data afterward, is entirely dependent on the proactive steps businesses take in advance so they can respond to such an incident quickly and efficiently. James Tamblin, BlueVoyant UK President discusses how to protect your business when a cyber incident strikes.