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“50% of UK business fail within first five years”. This is just one of the many statistics that have SME’s worried for their future, in particular for those start-ups that are up against established competitors. This has led us to investigate the common causes behind so many new businesses failing in this article, and we […]

“Why should I choose Fair Business Loans over other loan providers?”. That’s a question we often get asked by companies looking to expand their business. Today we wanted to give you the Top 5 Reasons why our clients choose us over others for the provision of unsecured business loans… 1) We are open and transparent […]

As a small business owner, you may be at the stage where you are thinking about expanding your business. It’s a huge decision! There’s the old saying “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”! If things are going well as they are, and you are increasingly able to blend the needs of the business into […]

Fair Business Loans are delighted to announce that we have recently been added to the Alternative Business Funding website. Alternative Business Funding features a growing collective of lenders of unsecured business loans who are pooling together to provide a broad range of options to UK businesses who have been unable to access traditional mainstream finance. […]

As we move into August there is that early morning chill in the air and with it the sense that a seasonal change is preparing to take place. Come September and both these increase until it begins to feel positively autumnal. Of course the other major change in September is that children go back to […]

Dragons Den is once more gracing our screens on Sunday evenings, this time with three new dragons – Nick Jenkins, Sarah Willingham and Touker Suleyman – joining the two remaining original dragons Deborah Meaden and Peter Jones. The aim is for entrepreneurs to pitch their business idea to the dragons, in the hope of gaining […]

So, your business is booming and you are working every hour God sends? In our last business loans UK blog we looked at some of the changes that could potentially help small businesses. Many of these are legislative and are out of our hands. But one thing that we can take control of is the […]

In February we ran a blog entitled Does Your Business Need The Fixer which referred to the BBC 2 programme called The Fixer. In this programme hotelier Alex Polizzi spends time in a struggling small business to make recommendations as to how it could be improved. In a recent interview with The Radio Times, Polizzi […]

A recent blog focussed on a report entitled ‘Boosting the Living Standards of the Self-Employed’ which recommends that new measures are needed to improve the living standards of the most vulnerable self-employed, with changes to National Insurance, Universal Credit, pensions and maternity and paternity pay being key priorities. The report was produced by the RSA […]

In one of our first blogs of 2015, we looked at five ways to reduce small business costs. One of these ways was by saving energy and in this blog we return to this topic. According to John Allan, National Chairman of the Federation of Small Businesses: “Almost a third of small firms highlight the […]