Tilly creates easy to follow guides to sewing your own clothes, designed for those who have always wanted to give dressmaking a go but don’t know where to start. She started by blogging her...
If you are interested in how to start selling internationally, PayPal has recently launched a great range of hand-picked partners and offers to help cut the cost of selling abroad. As well as...
Small businesses are the lifeblood of the British economy. But seven years after the start of the credit crunch, many of them tell us they’re still struggling to get funding. According to the...
Breaking down on the roadside is bad enough at the best of times! The situation only gets worse when you realise you don’t have enough cash to pay for that new part you need from roadside...
Shoppers at Westfield London, Shepherds Bush, can now use the PayPal app to pay for car parking with their smartphone. It’s the first time people in the UK have been able to pay to park with...
Brothers Tom and Michael Ashworth started NuBlue in 2005 straight out of university. They wanted to improve their customers’ online presence through website design, development and web hosting....
Gavin Green believes that what you put on your skin is as important as what you put in your mouth. Trained in how to blend organic products, he was frustrated trying to find high quality male...
You may have seen that UK buyer protection has been extended to now cover services, digital goods, travel tickets and other intangible items. If you pay for one of these items using PayPal and the...
Last weekend saw the inaugural Makegood Festival, a pop-up market place that launched the creative brands of the future. The event was the brain child of the School for Creative Startups, one of...
To mark the launch of the Makegood Festival which opened today at the Old Selfridges Hotel in London, we are taking a closer look at some of the fantastic textile designers exhibiting at the Festival.
With summer fast approaching Scottish Bed and Breakfast The Shepherd’s House’s season is well under way. On the east shore of Loch Lomond in Scotland, Jenny and Chris Townsend offer their...
Happy Easter from PayPal! Easter and chocolate go hand in hand, so this week we caught up with chocolatier Choco Passion UK at their busiest time of year. Choco Passion UK sell hand crafted...
Ti-Springs sells titanium shock springs for your mountain bike. Founder Scout Gregory first started using PayPal last year when he set up the business, so he could take payments from countries...
ET Games, of Dragon’s Den fame, produce handmade wooden games. The company was started on a shoe string by David Harvey in 2009, with Ben Lewis joining that Christmas. The pair now sells into...
Contemporary lace artist Louise West has been using PayPal for the last two years to support her business. She develops designs from traditional bobbin lacemaking techniques, including individual...
Perfect 10 Mobile Beauty offers a wide range of beauty services in the comfort of the client’s own home. Operating in London, their highly trained therapists come to the house with all the...
Cupcake and cakepop company Cupcake Planet saw an increase of deposits paid on the spot of 800% when they started using PayPal Here. In our latest Small Business Spotlight, which profiles some of...
We're introducing a new regular spot to the PayPal UK blog. PayPal has enabled tens of thousands of small businesses to sell both online and offline, and every couple of months we'll be nominating...
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