Business Stuff is UK business news, tips and founder stories with the corporate spin surgically removed. We’re read by small business owners, side-hustlers, freelancers and the self-employed — people who want a straight answer, not a lecture. If you can write something genuinely useful for that audience, we’ll happily give you a home for it.
What we’re looking for
Practical, specific, honest pieces a UK small business owner could actually use on a Monday morning. Strong candidates include:
- Hard-won lessons from running your own business — the messier and more specific, the better
- Practical how-tos on money, tax, pricing, hiring, marketing or operations for UK small firms
- A genuine expert take on something in your field (law, HR, finance, marketing, tech) translated into plain English
- Founder stories — what actually happened, what you’d do differently, what the guru version leaves out
What you get
- A byline and a short author bio with a link back to your own website or profile
- Your piece promoted to our email list and social channels
- A permanent home on a growing, genuinely-read UK business site — not a content farm
We’d rather run one genuinely useful 900-word piece than ten pieces of thin filler. Quality is the whole brand.
What we won’t publish
To save everyone’s time: no thin, spun or AI-generated filler; no thinly-veiled adverts for your product; no pieces stuffed with irrelevant links; and nothing that isn’t genuinely useful to a UK small business owner. One relevant link to your own site in your bio is welcome. A piece that exists only to carry links is not.
How to pitch
Email hello@businessstuff.uk with a two-line summary of your idea, who you are, and a link to something you’ve written before. You don’t need the full article yet — just the idea and the angle. We read every pitch and reply to the ones that are a fit.
Pitch it in two lines. We’re quick to say yes to genuinely useful writing.
Pitch an article