January 30th, 2012 by phil pickwick
UK Local Business is dedicated to helping you find the best ways to increase your local business profits. Put simply we put more £’s in your pocket.

business types
Thank you to everyone who responded so positively to our launch, a couple of key questions were raised so here goes:
1. What do you do to increase local business profits?
a range of things using over 30 years experience of revenue generation and cost savings techniques, exactly what depends on your specific business as we do not offer a one size fits all solution as every business is different.
2. How do you know you can help any business?
good question as virtually nothing is guaranteed in life. We work on the basis of long experience in this field and the fact nowadays most local business owners are too busy ‘hands-on’, to develop their businesses or perhaps have not really got the knowledge to know what to do in that area.
Here’s the bottom line – If you contact us and we think we can’t provide what you are looking for we’ll agree not to continue, NO RISK!, if we agree to work together and we can’t show you how to benefit, we’ll refund our fee, NO RISK!
Keep those questions coming.
Speak soon, Phil
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January 22nd, 2012 by phil pickwick
UK Local Business is a new website dedicated to helping you find the best ways to increase your local business profits. Put simply we put more £’s in your pocket!

Examples of UK Local Businesses
What’s a UK local business? – It’s a business based in the UK which serves a local rather than national or international market, so say within about a 30-35 mile radius of it’s base. As an example imagine Central London as the base and the M25 as the extent of the local area
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May 20th, 2012 by phil pickwick
Oh the joys of the great UK Local Business owner

uk local business - plumbing and heating services
I wish I had a pound for every time I mentioned the benefits of UK Local Business and heard the response, what’s the catch?
Well there really isn’t one. I worked for many years in senior positions in large corporate businesses and was dismayed to see how difficult it was for the local business owner to sell their services to larger enterprises, even getting a lead or an interview proved a harrowing experience. I vowed at that time that I would one day seek to help the smaller businessman in whatever way I could and hence UK Local Business was born.
Right, that’s my heart on my sleeve, now something useful, which underpins our service. There are basically three areas of importance in local business:
- Your market and your reaction to sales/marketing
- Your service and what you do and how you do it
- Your ways of working and efficiency (often termed processes in larger business)
That’s it, nothing clever, yet all too often we find that one or more of these is lacking because quite simply there are only so many hours in a day to local business people or they may just not have the right skills to improve. This is where UK Local Business can help and our experience and toolchest can quickly highlight how we can improve to your benefit.
Over the coming weeks I intend to provide some FREE checklists and reports to help you improve areas within your business so keep checking back regularly.
If you can’t wait try checking out the pages of our website what’s in it for me? is a good place to start.
If you think you’ve ‘nothing to lose’, then drop us a quick note here contact UK Local Business and we’ll get back to you.
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