Practical guides for SMEs

You can now access a suite of guides from Bibby Financial Services, providing you with hints and tips to navigate the increasingly complex business environment. From employment changes to growth, exports and bad debt, our guides will tell you what you need to know.

Capitalising on New Markets

Many businesses are taking advantage of continued uncertainty by seeking new opportunities overseas. Our guide will give you practical hints and tips to help navigate new markets, covering foreign skill-sets, regulation and minimising risk.

Export Guide

Make Importing work for you

Whether you are importing goods, or considering it, there are some basic principles that will help you gain a commercial advantage. Whether it’s researching markets and suppliers or managing risk the work you put in up-front is key to unlocking opportunities.

Import Guide

The Latest Employment Changes

With the constant involvement of employment regulation, employers need to know the impact such changes will have on their people – after all, a happy workforce is the starting point for any successful business.

Employment Guide

Recruitment Finance Explained

Recruitment agencies need to pay temporary workers and contractors while waiting for their invoices to be paid. At the same time, they need to focus on the day-to-day of managing payroll, time-sheets and raising and chasing invoices. Each has different implications for cashflow and the ability to focus on developing their business.

Recruitment Finance Guide

Dealing with Bad Debt

UK businesses, particularly those in the transport and construction sectors, lose thousands of pounds each year through late payment of invoices. Our guide provides you with the practical knowledge to forecast bad debt, improve cashflow and implement effective credit control. Bad Debt Guide

Growing Your Online Sales

Digital technology continues to expand at a rapid pace. Our guide provides you with the intelligence to take advantage of this growth, by optimising your website, increasing lead generation and better measuring response and success. Online Sales Guide

Successfully Managing Late Payments

Dealing with the day-to-day running of your business, whether you are self-employed, a company or contractor, can be difficult enough without having to deal with the financial side of things. Late Payments Guide

Preparing your business for the future

Effective succession planning is a company’s insurance policy for sustainability and stability. If you are new to succession planning or are just beginning to explore the idea of implementing a plan, our guide provides proactive steps a business can take. Succession Guide