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The way British consumers spend their money has been changing slowly but surely for quite some years now, and in the past decade or so online shopping has grown from non-existent into a multi-billion pound industry. Thanks to COVID-19, this move to online has been propelled to new heights, with the pandemic forecast to generate a whopping extra £4.5 billion in online sales in 2020 alone.

Running a business can be hard work, with lots of plates to spin. To help you be more efficient, we've put together these 6 top tips: The best way for you to stay on track is by simply writing down exactly what you need to do for that day. 

Let’s be honest, unless you’re a restauranteur, the idea of offering a table service option in your hospitality business probably wasn’t on your radar until the crazy events of 2020 unfolded.  There’s no point reminiscing on the good old days when you could get within two-metres of a customer without panicking about the repercussions, we are where we are and businesses wanting to remain competitive, not to mention above board, need to keep up to thrive.

Buckle in for our nine steps to prepping for a killer Christmas. As every small business owner knows all too well, Christmas is a spending frenzy - in fact, last year Brits spent a staggering £26.9 billion on gifts, that’s an eye-watering average spend of £513 per person.

While many Brits, us included, had hoped we’d have waved goodbye to the C-word before Christmas, it’s now clear that won’t be the case and businesses up and down the country are battening down the hatches and worrying what it might mean for their future. In some parts of England, the current state of affairs is tougher than others with local lockdowns in place for regions where the number of cases is higher than average, and for business owners within these zones it’s turning into a make or break situation.