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Simple and effective ways to grow your business

|Date: 29 December, 2021

Simple and effective ways to grow your business

Marley’s Daniel Redfern looks at some simple, but effective, ways to grow your business. NFRC membership ...

Marley’s Daniel Redfern looks at some simple, but effective, ways to grow your business. NFRC membership As well as reassuring your customers of high-quality standards, being a member of the NFRC allo ...

29 December, 2021
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Managing your business and projects with Payaca

|Date: 1 December, 2021

Managing your business and projects with Payaca

Through Payaca the trades can manage their business and the projects they undertake – and upsell along th ...

Through Payaca the trades can manage their business and the projects they undertake – and upsell along the way. Professional Builder’s Lee Jones talks to the company’s Matt Franklin about the function ...

1 December, 2021
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Made for Trade’s further expansion leads to Commercial Director acquisition

|Date: 11 November, 2021

Made for Trade’s further expansion leads to Commercial Director acquisition

Made for Trade are looking forward to big steps forward in 2022 as they continue to build on the success ...

Made for Trade are looking forward to big steps forward in 2022 as they continue to build on the success of the multi award winning Korniche Lantern with the ramping up in production of their new Korn ...

11 November, 2021
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Budget lets down small businesses…once again, says Forum of Private Business

|Date: 8 November, 2021

Budget lets down small businesses…once again, says Forum of Private Business

Business support organisation, the Forum of Private Business, has highlighted that the Chancellor has onc ...

Business support organisation, the Forum of Private Business, has highlighted that the Chancellor has once again failed to address the issue of Business Rates properly, and missed the opportunity to c ...

8 November, 2021
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Recommend & Share: online platform between businesses and consumers

|Date: 13 October, 2021

Recommend & Share: online platform between businesses and consumers

Professional Builder’s Lee Jones reports on a tradesman who has ambitions to build a community of trust b ...

Professional Builder’s Lee Jones reports on a tradesman who has ambitions to build a community of trust between businesses and consumers. The story of Garry Lewis will be an all-too familiar tale for ...

13 October, 2021
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Over 112,000 UK trade businesses have been set up since the first lockdown

|Date: 14 September, 2021

Over 112,000 UK trade businesses have been set up since the first lockdown

Since the first Coronavirus lockdown was announced on 23rd March 2020, over 112,000 trade businesses have ...

Since the first Coronavirus lockdown was announced on 23rd March 2020, over 112,000 trade businesses have been set up in the UK, new research has revealed. More than one in ten of the UK’s lockdown bu ...

14 September, 2021
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13% of UK tradespeople fear business could get worse

|Date: 20 May, 2021

13% of UK tradespeople fear business could get worse

Tradespeople in the UK are less optimistic about the year ahead than their antipodean counterparts, accor ...

Tradespeople in the UK are less optimistic about the year ahead than their antipodean counterparts, according to recent research from Tradify. While most UK tradespeople believe that general business ...

20 May, 2021
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Business solution products – April 2021

|Date: 23 April, 2021

Business solution products – April 2021

PROJECT PACKAGES A collection of off-the-shelf project packages to help builders complete loft conversion ...

PROJECT PACKAGES A collection of off-the-shelf project packages to help builders complete loft conversions and garden rooms with greater ease and speed has been launched by Build Aviator. Builders sim ...

23 April, 2021
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Dulux helping get the trade back on its feet

|Date: 23 July, 2020

Dulux helping get the trade back on its feet

Dulux Decorator Centre is helping the nation’s decorators build their businesses back up with a new job-f ...

Dulux Decorator Centre is helping the nation’s decorators build their businesses back up with a new job-finding service, alongside free Checkatrade membership The measures are part of their Backing Ou ...

23 July, 2020
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The trades are losing money due to poor financial admin

|Date: 28 February, 2020

The trades are losing money due to poor financial admin

A survey has found that nearly a fifth of tradespeople are missing out on money due to poor financial adm ...

A survey has found that nearly a fifth of tradespeople are missing out on money due to poor financial admin, which equates to £929,028,750 across the industry as a whole. The research, carried out by ...

28 February, 2020
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