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7 ways to enhance your small business website in 2020

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Originally written by Anna Jordan on Small Business
Company websites are ever-evolving in terms of design. It’s important that small businesses understand why certain elements are changing and how they can improve their sites’ ability to improve customer experience and increase conversions and website traffic.
We’ll take you through some of the most important features and how they can improve your web presence. Some of them will be brand new to you and others you’ll know already. Some of them are also more advanced than others so if your small business website is brand new, stick with the easier ones.
1. Implement dark mode into your small business website
More and more web users are adopting dark mode in their devices and web browsers, but why is it so popular?
Some say it’s easier to read in dark mode on smaller screens. Pages in dark mode minimise blue light emissions and put less strain on the eyes when you’re reading at night.
It’s more energy efficient on OLED and AMOLED screens (though they make up a minority for device users).
Some people say it looks better too – not least those who are inclined towards midnight social media browsing. These users are more likely to have a

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Pay us within one month if you take COVID-19 cash, say small businesses

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Originally written by Anna Jordan on Small Business
The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) wants policymakers to ensure that large firms who receive Government COVID-19 financial help pay their small firm suppliers within one month.
As part of its current calls, the FSB wants to make any big corporation that receives state or Bank of England-backed finance to sign a supplier charter committing to this payment term.
It also wants it to work with the BoE to shore up supply chain finance and ensure said finance is used to pay small businesses swiftly.
The latest data from pay.uk shows that the latest sum of late payment due across the country rose 80 per cent to £23.4bn at the end of 2019.
Almost two thirds of small businesses (62 per cent) have been subject to late or frozen payments during the pandemic.
FSB’s new report, ‘Late Again: how the coronavirus pandemic is impacting payment terms for small firms’, reveals that only one in ten small business have agreed changes to payment terms with clients. That means that most of the recent examples of poor payment practices have not been formally signed off by creditors or debtors.
Despite efforts by the Government to improve procurement practices since the fall

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