The e-commerce industry is continuing to grow at a rapid rate, with revenues increasing 13% in the past year to 718 billion euros. SMBs want to make the most of this boom in online retail, but it can be a daunting task getting started amidst growing competition and a busy retail landscape.

On 23rd September, Platf9rm – a membership workspace in Brighton that connects communities of creative professionals, artists, and entrepreneurs, providing inspirational environments in which members’ businesses flourish – held an all-day event called Work Reinvented.

Swedish-Ukrainian IT company Sigma Software Group is scaling up their Femmegineering initiative to build a female tech community across emerging European tech markets. The organisers will launch educational events, and provide free access to IT courses at Sigma Software University and mentorships by industry leaders to female refugees and local women in Europe.

It’s absolutely crucial to keep up with the dynamic processes that encompass SEO. With a consistent, long-term plan, effective SEO offers the potential to carry your company to the top spot. However, helping your website move through the rankings involves an acute awareness of when and how to shift your strategy. We’ve explored the latest trends in SEO below. 

You have finally launched your eCommerce store online—great. What do you do now? Well, there are a lot of things you should not do.

If you’ve heard this advice before, it’s because it’s probably true. A brilliant idea should be the foundation of any business, the seed that your company can grow from and the reason to continue believing in yourself when faced with inevitable challenges.

We naturally want our employees to show up for work happy and healthy, but a long string of absences is often concerning. But don’t jump to conclusions—there’s usually a good reason why your staff aren’t coming in as often. Sick leave data can help shed light on the situation.

Small and midsize businesses (SMBs) have one passion – their company, their customers, their industry, and their growth. If you are in the process of starting a new small business, or are even trying to successfully run one, you will be well aware of the various challenges that you may have to face in the near future.

Sky Medical Technology Ltd (Sky), parent company of Firstkind Ltd,  today announced the appointment of Fiona Young as director for its wound care therapy business.  Fiona will spearhead and build-out Sky’s geko™ device sales and marketing strategy in the wound care space.  

Acquisitions can be an ideal way for founders to accelerate growth, enhance market share and achieve higher valuations. However, startups considering an acquisition need to think carefully about their objections and plan for all eventualities if they want a merger or acquisition to be a success. 

Sküma Water has raised £300,000 in a pre-seed funding round led by early-stage focused venture capital firm Jenson Funding Partners. Multiple angel investors also participated in the round, including William Ripley, a notable investor in sustainable technology and ex-director of product strategy at Philips

New research from FDM Group reveals the most in-demand tech skills, to help spruce up your CV and stand out from the crowd. 

Business finance experts at NerdWallet ran a study on 25 UK cities to find out which would be the most likely to weather a recession. The study used data from the ONS and other sources, looking at active business population, business survival rate, and disposable income, among other factors.

EasyTip, the UK’s leading online service for collecting tips in the hospitality industry, is announcing a new partnership with Samtouch Software, bringing fairer and quicker tip payments to staff at over 7,500 hospitality venues across UK. Technological innovation has become vital in driving the post-pandemic recovery of the sector and enabling the administration of staff tips to be more efficient, cheaper, and less time consuming is a significant component of such a trend.

Raising capital is one of the biggest roadblocks faced by today’s entrepreneurs. Not only are bank loans very hard to get for many, but risk capital investors can expect high growth and rapid exit, which are not options for a huge majority of businesses. Despite these challenges, Manchester Kombucha business, Hip Pop, has achieved impressive growth since launching just three years ago thanks to its successful investment strategy.