The number of pubs is decreasing at worrying rate in the UK – we wrote an article about it last summer (read it here) – and pub owners around these fair isles are doing their best to keep them going and growing attracting business. Most pubs live on their regulars; the after-works, the sports fans and […]
Small Business Issues this General Election
With Britain’s general election happening next week, tensions are running high across the nation. What will the outcome of the election be – and how will it affect you? After the financial crisis Britain has seen a fairly healthy turnaround, with annual increase in the number of new businesses started. The Small Business Federation says […]
Why You Should Shop Local This Small Business Saturday
Tomorrow, the 6th of December, is Small Business Saturday. A day dedicated to celebrate, support and inspire small businesses. Small and medium sized enterprises (defined as having fewer than 250 employees) make up 99% of the total number of business in the country. Of these, an astonishing 96% are micro-businesses, with between 0 and 9 […]
Black Friday – Huge Offers, Bigger Crowds
Black Friday is the day after American Thanksgiving, the fourth Thursday on November, and has in the last decade become the biggest shopping event of the year. Major retailers are eager to kick of the holiday shopping season which means Black Friday is a day for spectacular offers, leading to masses of spend-thrifty shoppers hitting […]
Public Houses : A British Institution Going Downhill
The last few decades have seen a rapid decrease in the number of pubs around our fair isles. A fresh report from Camra, Campiagn for Real ale, suggests that as many as 31 pubs close down every week. And the total number of pubs is at an all-time low – 54 490 across the UK. […]
Let’s Talk About the Sandwich
The Great British Sandwich We all know them, those oddly uniformly looking triangular pieces of bread with some indistinguishable filling and – if you’re lucky – a few green bits (1 of your 5 a day!). Every shop has them, ranging from the humble cheese and pickle to the more flamboyant chèvre, pear and walnut […]
A Dying Breed: Bustling High Streets
Back in the day, the high street was the place to go. It was a place for specialist shops with knowledgeable staff, and anyone looking for quality products went there to do their shopping. This was before the digital age, and the remise we have experienced in the last couple of decades is partly to […]
Why British Summer Staycations are Awesome
Much like British cuisine, British summers have quite a poor reputation, both in the UK and abroad—dreary, drizzly days spent cooped up indoors are what usually come to mind. As a result, most Brits tend to hop across to Europe for summer holidays spent on Portuguese, French and Spanish beaches, rarely giving a thought to […]
5 Common Tax Mistakes Made by Startups and Small Businesses
At Loyalzoo, we’re big supporters of small independent businesses and entrepreneurship; that’s why we’re so committed to providing a user-friendly customer reward scheme that will help small businesses build their customer base and grow. However, we also like to help entrepreneurs succeed by sharing useful advice whenever we can. With the month of April representing […]
Should Your Employees Bring their Kids to Work?
It is a little-known fact here in the UK that ‘Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day’ is an actual day that is recognised in the United States on the fourth Thursday of every April. In fact, Canada also has the Take Our Kids to Work national programme in which Grade 9 (Year 10) […]