The Small Business Blog

APRIL 1, 2008

Small Business Start-Up Idea – T-Shirt Design by Stefan Töpfer on Apr 02, 2008 There is always a great demand for custom-made T-shirts, ranging from sports teams in need of new kit to event organisers wanting promotional shirts to give away. The estimated cost to start this business varies from £5000 up to around £15,000.

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JANUARY 11, 2010

Add up all your monthly expenses so you can estimate how much money you will have left each month. The best tip from my point of view would be to avoid unnecessary expenses. While trying to keep up with Jones’ people eventually rack up huge credit card bills and are screwed. Thank you so much for sharing.

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JULY 27, 2006

Computerised systems now fall into two very different camps, the first are those that sit on your computer, and as such you need to take responsibility for ensuring you back your data up on a regular basis. Also, when you buy such a system the up front costs can be expensive.

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AUGUST 20, 2010

Those items are significant investment, unreimbursed expenses, opportunity for profit or loss, method of payment and services available to the market. As you can see, as a service provider it can be very easy to slip from contractor status to employee unknowingly, simply believing yourself to be providing good ‘customer service’.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2010

A company can downgrade or upgrade services as needed without the expense of hiring more seasonal staff. Employee reduction – Outsourcing sets a company free of paying for employee incentives, training, hiring, and providing expensive employee benefits such as health insurance, pension planning, and vacation pay.

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Productivityist

DECEMBER 15, 2013

I don''t do a lot of outsourcing, but offering up guests spots here at Productivityst has started me down that path. You can also link up with her on LinkedIn and follow her on Twitter. We ended up hiring him for several jobs and staying in constant contact over the course of several weeks. Review: Google Docs.

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The Small Business Blog

JUNE 15, 2010

We all start our own businesses because we have passion and drive, this can easily become lost in the day to day monotony of paperwork and tedious tasks, yet employing full or part-time staff can be expensive and risky. My Web StumbleUpon Google Bookmarks Technorati BlinkList Newsvine ma.gnolia reddit Windows Live Tailrank

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APRIL 13, 2010

While your competitors have to pay out for expensive office space that they don’t need as clients dry up, your business can continue to thrive. Massy Said on April 16th, 2010 at 8:26 pm Gas is the absolute worst… so expensive. makes me appreciate working from home! Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Still trying to keep up with my blog and column to answer your great questions and comments! Top EAs that work for a famous CEO (think Google, Fortune 100 companies) make as much as low level executives in middle management and have titles like Chief of Staff sometimes. The latest 2 questions I answered over there are below.

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The Small Business Blog

MARCH 14, 2010

Web development as well can be pretty expensive. We have found that speaking to our clients and having a relationship with them instead of just delivering a service helps a lot and have already had numerous recommendations. My Web StumbleUpon Google Bookmarks Technorati BlinkList Newsvine ma.gnolia reddit Windows Live Tailrank

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The Small Business Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2006

Accountants will set their clients up who have no understanding or interest in bookkeeping/accounting. Whatever method you use to record your income & expenses at the moment, instead simply enter the details on a form on the Payments & Receipts pages of ‘Cashbook’ to record any money paid into or out of your business.

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DECEMBER 17, 2009

That meant it had to replace my notebook computer on many fronts, such as provide an alternate path to social networking, email, note-taking, Google Apps, music, video, and some tangentially interesting games. Given that I didn’t want to incur the expense of switching providers, I decided to stay with T-Mobile.

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The Small Business Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

The money that leaves a small business is often taken up with overheads that are necessary for the day to day running of the business. « Top 5 Serious Start-Up Mistakes Is Your Networking Fishy Enough? We work through a reseller network to deliver outsourced help desk and pc management services to small and mid sized businesses.

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JANUARY 13, 2010

Brian Scudamore dropped out of high school in 1989 with $700 (£400) and a beat-up old pick-up truck to start his company 1-800-GOT-JUNK? It’s expensive to develop your own resources so it makes sense to share. It’s good for you and good for your customers who don’t have to pay excessive costs.

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The Small Business Blog

JULY 20, 2010

People often say to me that their small business doesn’t have a website as it’s too complicated, takes up too much time or is too expensive. start-up in business , use online IT. Online presence brings more traffic (eventually customers) to your business. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0

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NOVEMBER 19, 2007

OnlineOffice is aimed at the small business and start-up business, like SOHO-, SME, SMB-, Micro-, Lifestyle-, Home-, DIY-, Hobby-, Boomer- or Personal business, like professional, contractors, freelancer, self-employed, sole-trader and virtual assistants client. What a great team.keep up the great work. Good support Vital !!

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The Small Business Blog

MARCH 19, 2008

If you want a similar type of business, but there are more people than just you involved, then you will likely want to draw up a partnership agreement. However, the initial process of incorporation can be lengthy and expensive. It can also be hard for a sole trader to raise funds other than their personal savings or taking out a loan.

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The Small Business Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2007

Ethics And Small Business » « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Thursday, October 18th, 2007 at 9:26 am and is filed under Accountants/CPAs , Question & Answer , Small Business / SOHO , Sole-Trader , Suppliers , start-up in business. There are so many options when it comes to setting up a business.

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The Small Business Blog

APRIL 20, 2010

In this technologically advanced world there is no reason that work cannot be carried out within the family home, allowing mothers to work and bring up their children, being there when they are needed. Not only is my wife employed by a firm that gave her plenty of maternity leave, they also offered help with expenses.

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The Small Business Blog

MAY 10, 2006

SME / SMB Have Become Obsolete Acronyms by Zoli Erdos on May 10, 2006 Software Industry analysts seem to have a fun time coming up with three-letter combinations. Seems to me that a lot more SME are using google services now. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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MARCH 2, 2010

If a start-up funds the development of their company through internal cash flow and are cautious with expenses, the company can grow with low-risk to all those involved. Simple ideas on how to bootstrap your small business start up are: - Work from home. So many people give up too quickly by saying “I don’t know how.&#

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The Small Business Blog

APRIL 21, 2008

Overpaying for target – Do not get carried away and end up paying far above the market value of the target, especially in e-business where it can be easy to over-estimate the value of a company because of the amount of potential you believe to be there. In order for the transition to go smoothly it will require a lot of planning.

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The Small Business Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2007

A good side effect here is that you will have to look at your expenses and cost again, and may be able to make a judgement if that was good or bad money spent – you know what I mean – the hindsight thing. I used to put it off for months and end up with a frustrating weekend trying to sort everything out.

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OCTOBER 25, 2007

Examples are rent, some employee costs, property taxes, telephone, heating and interest/bank expense. do cost cutting do credit control do customer service export find funding grow your business handle problems keep data safe lower overheads manage your time market and sell motivate your staff not to do it!

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The Small Business Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

Apple – a customer support nightmare! by Stefan Töpfer on Nov 07, 2007 A few years ago I decided to change over to Apple computers from Windows based computers and up until now it seemed the right decision. I asked if there was a way to speed up my new order, they will try – code for no.

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The Small Business Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2007

I have known people to go in blindly, purchasing an expensive site, before knowing what their internet strategy is, simply because they are intimidated by technology and a consultant told them that was what they needed. My Web StumbleUpon Google Bookmarks Technorati BlinkList Newsvine ma.gnolia reddit Windows Live Tailrank

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The Small Business Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

While the Bank of England has lowered the interest rate to the lowest level on record, the banks have doubled the interest they demand from small business owners, up to almost 20% for certain loans – that is a 19.5% the recession is nothing the media hyped up, since you lost your job because of it, you should know; 4.

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The Small Business Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2008

When you give your fixed quote it isn’t plucked out of the air, but is based on you using your experience and expertise to weight up factors such as how much time it will take you, what value (ROI) it will provide your customer, and the market rate. For your customers and you will be ideally to increase sales.

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MAY 31, 2006

Simply because the needs of a $100M company, which SAP and Oracle consider a "small" business are not even comparable to a 6-10 person company – traditionally referred to as SOHO , while recently a new term is popping up: VSB – very small business, the absolute "S" part of SMB. We spent a crap-load of money.

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JUNE 29, 2006

The four types of status I am going to give you some bite sized details on are: Sole trader Partnership Limit Liability Partnership Limited Company Sole Trader This is by far the easiest type of status to set up (details on registering with the various government departments will be dealt with in a later post).

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The Small Business Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2007

So if you are thinking about starting, growing or running your small business, like SOHO-, SME, SMB-, Micro-, Lifestyle-, Home-, DIY-, Hobby-, Boomer-, Professional-, Personal businesses , but are worried about if you can be successful, worried about failing, worried about giving up your job, etc. than bootstrapping is for you.

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BMT Office Administration

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Before you know it, you’ll have 15 email threads to keep up with, as well as loads of time-tracking spreadsheets for each team member. Trello Power-Ups. While Trello lacks more advanced features in its original version, there are ways to add extra features and functionality to it through power-ups. What are those?

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JANUARY 13, 2016

Salesforce cites data from a paper published by Forrester stating that 42 percent of customer service representatives are unable to efficiently deal with customer issues due to outdated user interfaces and other forms of archaic systems. Make your everyday operations more efficient: Google Docs.

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The Small Business Blog

MAY 8, 2006

This is where I would definitely look for an accountant who belongs to a professional body, and holds a current and up to date practicing certificate, at least this way I would know this ‘stranger’ has gone through a certain standard of training and will have had to achieve a minimum level of experience before being admitted to membership.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 10, 2010

Listening to Experts is Expensive When new business owners believe faulty information they find on the web, it costs them a great deal. How To Promote Your Business On A Budget Reply James ( @MenwithPens ) January 11, 2010 at 7:06 am @Michael – I’m tossed up about that. How could they not know?

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Men With Pens

MARCH 9, 2010

Should you ever be in a situation where you’re trying to explain to someone why getting online is a really, really good idea, tell that person this: People Don’t Use the Yellow Pages Anymore When was the last time you hauled the business directory off the shelf and looked up a business when you needed one? I’m betting it’s been a long time.

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The Small Business Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Small Business News World Round-up – 2009/12/08 by Stefan Töpfer on Dec 08, 2009 Here is this week’s news round-up for home business, micro business, sole-traders, freelancers, self-employed and any one who is interested in small business news from around the world. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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