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Our must have apps for businesses
It's a digital world! What's part of your tech stack? No matter which industry or team you're in, we've got a recommendation for you
Phone or email? Our how-to for always making the right call
Can every conversation be written down? Do keyboards get in the way? This is our guide to choosing a phone call or an email to suit your situation.
5 things your business plan must have
When you’re getting started, it’s important to set out your intentions for your company, but also to inject some of your personality into your plan. Your business plan will take you time and thought – and that’s a good thing. Nail what you’ve set out to do in the introduction to keep your reader or […]
Be smarter with your business's paid social with these 7 tips and tricks
Are you putting your money in the right place? Here are seven tips and tricks for cracking the code of paid social.
Tech: maker or breaker of productivity?
Does technology really benefit your business? Does it make you lazy and distracted? Or is it helpful and productive?
Hold onto your hats: a guide to surviving startup life test
Startups can be great fun, but they can also be unpredictable! Here's our guide for surviving startup life
Do business owners need to understand accounting?
Never be ignorant of an aspect of your business You don’t know what you don’t know. But your accountant does. They have a responsibility to help you connect to your business finances. Identify the gaps in your knowledge and have your accountant make you a forecast if you haven’t already.
How to perfect your small business recruitment strategy
Managing people requires you to keep an eye on multiple moving parts. One of the trickiest of those parts? Recruitment. It is expensive, time-consuming, and disappointingly often accompanied by a low success rate.
6 financial reporting mistakes that kill business growth
Sometimes financial reporting goes very wrong. This blog lists the 6 worst financial reporting mistakes you need to avoid for a healthy business.
PDF reports or live dashboards: how do you choose for your clients?
PDF reports and live dashboards are both advantageous for different reasons. Find out which is better for you and your business.
Creating the perfect KPI dashboard for your business
Key performance indicators are the foundation for your business monitoring. Learn how to create a KPI dashboard to make the most of your data.
What is your board looking for when you report your finances?
The quality of performance reporting to boards is one of the key factors affecting companies’ competitiveness in business today.
Have you tried our management reports or printable PDFs?
Futrli is a platform to facilitate having a conversation with your clients, effortlessly. We have hundreds of templates that are ready to go, straight out of the box for all your management reporting needs. You can customize them as and when you need to.
What is an Effective Annual Interest Rate? Small Businesses Can Learn All About It
You can't be a successful business without an understanding of interest rates. But they're not always easy to understand because there's so much confusing financial jargon and acronyms floating around out there these days, which is why we want you to learn how the EAR works before it becomes too important for your company. In this blog, we're going to attempt to illuminate some of these points for you!
Why successful business owners no longer rely on historical financial reports but on cash flow forecasting and 3-way forecasting
Successful business owners no longer rely on historical reports, instead they’re combining the power of the cloud to look to the future and monitor the present and past.
How to avoid mistakes when reporting
Cloud automation significantly reduces risk factors in reporting. Using Futrli’s flexible date options when reporting you can quickly and simply select the appropriate date range for your report, and know the data is correct.
Beautiful financial reporting for small businesses and small business owners
Present your data in beautifully clear and insightful reports. Financial reporting is easy with Futrli and doesn’t take long to master.
Bounce Back Series: How Brighton gym TheBox kept its nerve and its members by shifting online overnight
In another Bounce Back article focusing on the gym sector, we speak to TheBox co-founder and gym owner Helen Shalcott on how the innovative boutique gym is keeping clients fit at home and primed to get back to the gym post-lockdown.
Bounce Back Series: How design agency, Clearleft, uses strategy and planning to avoid the fear of the future
Clearleft co-founder, Andy Budd, and operations director, Jessica Jebari, explain how building the agency on solid financial foundations gave Clearleft the freedom to support its team and clients.
Bounce Back Series: How one F45 gym owner continues to innovate through lockdown
In the latest in our Bounce Back series, Jane Roche owner of the Brighton franchise of fast-growing gym workout chain F45 shares how she's kept customers loyal and raring to return post-Covid-19.
Bounce Back Series: How Rhino Recruitment put down solid foundations to emerge from COVID-19 stronger
The construction sector was one of the last to go into lockdown, with some parts of the industry remaining open well after the rest of us were huddled in our homes mastering the art of Zoom.
How Tech Recruitment Specialist James Chase is building for the future during lockdown: Bounce Back Series
In another Bounce Back article, we chat to Phil Lewis and Matthew Quinn at a recruitment firm in the Brighton region, James Chase, about their plans to emerge from lockdown stronger.
