Help for professional services and consultants businesses
Friendly, free help for consultants, freelancers and advisers.
Consultants, freelancers, bookkeepers, designers and other advisers. Here are the free NBHQ guides and tools most relevant to you.
Dedicated professional services and consultants guides are coming. We haven’t written industry-specific guides yet, so this page points you to our existing general guides and tools that fit your kind of business. Tell us what you’d want covered.
Running your business
- Separating business and personal money
- HMRC and Companies House deadlines
- Legal setup: sole trader or limited company
- Data protection and licences
- Pricing for profit and break-even
- Marketing on a small budget
Taking payments
Our card reader pages cover in-person payments. If you also sell face to face, for example at events, start with the Find my card reader quiz. We don’t yet cover online payment providers.
Tools & services
- Websites & domains
- Insurance (info only)
- Accounting & bookkeeping
- Business banking
- Marketing
- All tools & services
Looking after you
Your first year, step by step
Our first-year roadmap puts all of this in order.
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Not financial advice: this is general information to point you to our free guides and tools. It is not financial, tax or legal advice. Check the official pages our guides link to, and speak to an accountant or adviser about your situation.
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