About Cobweb
Cobweb is an independent publisher of practical and easy to understand information for business start ups, micro/small business owners, and for the advisers, professionals, and organisations that guide and support them.
We employ 15 staff and a large pool of freelance researchers, authors, editors and independent business experts. We are based in Gateshead (across the river from Newcastle) in the north east of England.
The company has been trading since 1998, although our directors have been publishing business information and working in the business start up/small business field since the 1980s.
Who uses our information?
- Independent business advisers and professionals use our information to help improve current business awareness and sector intelligence, and to guide, support and advise start up and business clients.
- Local enterprise and business support agencies use our information to help build and develop the agency's capacity and ability to guide and support new business start ups and small businesses.
- Business service providers use our information to provide unique and practical added value to their business customers, members and prospects, and to provide an original or exclusive component to their marketing proposition.
- Business start ups use our information to help research and develop their idea, understand their market, trading and legal issues, and prepare for starting up.
- Small business owners use our information to help with the day to day administration and running of their business, finding new customers, complying with regulations, and understanding the issues they have never faced before.
What's Cobweb's USP?
Cobweb uniquely focuses on sector-specific and business idea-specific information that is 100% practical and relevant to the needs of its target audience and subscribers.
We strive to maintain a how-to, what-to and when-to-do-things approach, particularly with regard to business start up, business compliance and business common sense in general.
Cobweb's products and services are amongst the most widely used in the start up and small business support field in the UK.
- The company's flagship COBRA service receives on average over 40,000 downloads from its professional subscribers each month.
- We have around 30,000 regular readers of our publications, professional subscribers to our services and purchasers from our e-commerce site.
- We publish around 200 new or updated pieces of content every month.
- We have over 1,500 factsheets on COBRA.
- We have over 500 articles in our How to library.
What you WILL GET from Cobweb is:
- Practical ideas, tips, know-how and news.
- Originally researched information.
- Current, fresh and topical subject matter.
- Plain English.
- First-class customer service and editorial standards.
- Unrivalled breadth and range of business topics and subjects.
- Unique sector-specific approach.
- Style, format and language to suit the needs of the reader.
- Complete independence.
- Objective reporting of facts.
What you WILL NOT get from Cobweb is:
- Business advice - we are a researcher and publisher - you get advice from advisers.
- 'SME' clap-trap.
- Information 'solutions'.
- Waffle.
- Toeing-of-the-line with Government departments and quangos.
- Your business and trade secrets given away.
