What is the Better Business Adviser and who is it for?

The Better Business Adviser (BBA) is an independent information and current awareness service aimed at business advisers, freelancers and self employed professionals who provide advice to their clients as part of their service.

The BBA is also a unique sector-independent professional development package designed to help you become a better provider of business or professional advice, or better at running your own business affairs.

The BBA will be of specific benefit to:

• Independent business advisers
• Consultants, coaches and trainers
• Accountants and bookkeepers
• Freelance healthcare professionals
• Editors and proofreaders
• Journalists and writers
• PR and marketing professionals
• Sales agents
• Website and graphic designers
• Photographers
• IT programmers
• Brokers
• Researchers
• Translators and interpreters

… and anyone else who is an independent provider of professional services and advice.

What are the advantages of subscribing?

Key benefits of a BBA subscription will provide you with:

• practical business information that is topical and relevant
  
  
• improved all round current business awareness
  
  
• thought provoking articles and discussion topics
  
  
• continually updated resources and tools you can use yourself or pass on freely to your clients.

How much is a subscription to the service?

An individual subscription to the service is currently available at £72 (excl. VAT) per annum or £40 (excl. VAT) for six months for a single user.

Specifically a subscription to the BBA and its resource centre will provide you with:

Licensed access to dozens of practical factsheets and checklists. There are over 70 factsheets in the resource centre including regular updates and there will be new or updated factsheets added to your resource centre each month.
Topics covered in the resource include: Business administration Dealing with customers Health and safety Market research Protecting your assets Trading abroad Contracts and terms of sale Employing staff Invoicing and payments Licensing and consumer protection Tax and VAT Trading online
A copy of BETTER business magazine sent to you in the post ten times a year. Each issue includes an average of ten 'how-to' articles and case studies aimed at freelancers and small business owners. Articles are written by small business professionals experienced in their own field.
Access to an extensive archive of 'how-to' articles taken from back issues of the BETTER business magazine. Examples of recent topics covered include:
Bridging the finance gap Project management checklist Finding new markets for your business Dealing with disputes Blog your website on to the map
Access to an 'Advisers' Toolbox' containing online links to practical, valuable business tools and resources that you can use to run your own business, and which you can signpost your own clients to when giving them advice. These resources have been reviewed by the BBA's editorial team and are generally freely available to use. Topic areas include: Business admin and resources Internet and IT Sales and marketing Importing and exporting Tax and finance

In addition to all of this you will also get:

• A weekly e-mail update letting you know when new resources have been added to your Toolbox.
  
  
• The ability to suggest and recommend tools and resources that you have personally found or used, which you can share with other subscribers.
  
  
• Access to special subscriber benefits and discounts on essential business resources provided by the BBA's partner organisations.

Join the BBA 30-day free trial. Get access to the full range of services without obligation.