{"id":8804,"date":"2021-03-23T13:49:58","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T13:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/?p=8804"},"modified":"2026-01-29T09:47:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T09:47:52","slug":"pocket-guide-to-small-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/pocket-guide-to-small-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Want to run your own company? The small business pocket guide will help you"},"content":{"rendered":"
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You’ve always had this dream of working for yourself. You’ve thought about the flexibility to choose your own hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The financial rewards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A chance to properly innovate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nobody telling you what to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Being your own boss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You want to be bossing it. Yes\u2026 you want to run your own business<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But there’s always been another voice in your head telling you that you’re not good enough. You don’t have the experience or ability to make it a success. That you don’t know enough about accounting and numbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We want to help you silence that voice and put you in control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Small business pocket guide: Going it alone but never on your own<\/strong> will provide you with practical tools and insight to take you from dreaming about running your own business, to being the boss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Download your free guide, Small business pocket guide: Going it alone but never on your own<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

It’s not as hard as you may think<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In 2020, we saw a staggering 85,000 new UK-born businesses registered \u2013 the highest percentage growth since 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You don’t have to be a business guru \u2013 every year thousands of people just like you spot gaps in the market, create plans<\/a>, and open for business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whether becoming your own boss is a dream or born out of necessity, our guide will help you see that it’s nothing to be frightened of, even if beginning your journey seems a bit daunting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the small business pocket guide, you can find advice, insight and tips in areas such as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • How you can run a side hustle alongside your 9-to-5 job<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Opening for business<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Taking your business to the next level<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    Setting up your own business is a challenge, but if you have the drive and knowledge of what you need to do, then anybody is capable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Download the Small business pocket guide: Going it alone but never on your own<\/strong>, and build the foundation for your new future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    With our pocket guide to small business, we provide practical tools and insights that can help you start your own business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":356,"featured_media":5952,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sage_video":false,"post_featured_image_hide":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,8],"tags":[12],"business_type":[4],"lilypad":[],"context":[],"industry":[],"persona":[73,75],"imagine_tag":[109],"coauthors":[351],"class_list":["post-8804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-free-guides-templates","category-growth-customers","tag-start-business","business_type-small-business"],"sage_meta":{"region":"en-gb","author_name":"Asavin Wattanajantra","featured_image":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/01\/GettyImages-503278812.jpg","imagine_tags":{"109":"Small business"}},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Sage Advice UK","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/356"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/5952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8804"},{"taxonomy":"business_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/business_type?post=8804"},{"taxonomy":"lilypad","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/lilypad?post=8804"},{"taxonomy":"context","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/context?post=8804"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=8804"},{"taxonomy":"persona","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/persona?post=8804"},{"taxonomy":"imagine_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/imagine_tag?post=8804"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/api\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}