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Pitfalls you need to avoid when getting new business premises

James Leckie — Wed, 16 May 2012 09:04:39 +0000

Categories: Premises

If you’re about to start your business and need premises, or have started up successfully at home and now need space to expand, this is an exciting time! Moving into an office or retail premises for the first time says something about a business. It can make your operation seem more “real”, meaning your dreams [...]

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The start-up survival guide – 6 tips to get beyond the early years

James Leckie — Thu, 03 May 2012 08:00:41 +0000

Categories: Start Up Tips

Tags: start a business, start-ups, startups

John Sollars, the serial entrepreneur behind Stinkyink.com provides some useful tips for Bytestart readers on how to survive the start-up phase. With all the focus and emphasis that both the Media and Government are giving to promoting start-ups it got me thinking more about longevity than ‘starting up’. Stats from HMRC show that 80% of [...]

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Late payment the biggest cash flow killer

James Leckie — Wed, 02 May 2012 10:13:43 +0000

Categories: Cashflow

Tags: credit control, factoring, late payment

A recent survey shows, once again, that late paying customers remain the biggest single threat to the health of the UK’s small businesses. Here, we provide some tips on how to avoid late payment problems. It doesn’t matter if you have the best ideas, the most innovative products, or most satisfied customers, if your business [...]

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Top tips for SMEs starting out with social media

James Leckie — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:31:41 +0000

Categories: Selling

Tags: faceboook, social media, twitter

We’ve all heard it: You just have to be using social media marketing. In my conversations with small businesses, I’ve heard over and over that they are indeed keen to try it out. The problem is figuring out where to begin. Following are ten simple tips that I hope will help any business starting out [...]

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Rate of business insolvencies remains steady

James Leckie — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:34:29 +0000

Categories: News

Tags: insolvencies, insolvency

The number of business failures recorded nationwide last month remains unchanged overall, with the North East showing a marked improvement in failure rates. The data, released by business information company Experian, shows that the number of businesses failing during March 2012 was 0.11% of the country’s business population – the same level as March 2011. [...]

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How to avoid classic web design mistakes

James Leckie — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 18:02:49 +0000

Categories: Technology

Tags: google, seo, web design, web marketing

With more and more small companies reaping the benefits of going online it is essential to appreciate the importance of having a well designed website, otherwise any efforts you make to drive potential clients to your web address will be in vain. A poorly designed web site can affect your traffic building effort in two [...]

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‘Make or break’ year for Coalition over red tape burden

James Leckie — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:12:10 +0000

Categories: News

Tags: coalition, icaew, red tape

The ICAEW says that 2012 could be a ‘make or break’ year for the Coalition Government’s plans to slash the red tape burden which has put the breaks on enterprise for so long. Clive Lewis, the accountancy body’s Head of Enterprise said that the plan to reduce the regulatory burden was very much a work [...]

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How to write an eye-catching press release

James Leckie — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 09:46:40 +0000

Categories: Selling

Tags: pr, press release, press releases, write a press release

At Bytestart, we receive hundreds of press releases every week. Although around 40% are usually relevant to UK small businesses, out of these we probably only end up using 4 or 5 a week in our news articles. Many are not relevant to our business, some are poorly written, and the majority are not newsworthy. [...]

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Guide to National Insurance Contributions (NICs)

James Leckie — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 13:22:48 +0000

Categories: Tax Guides

Tags: national insurance, national insurance contributions, nic, nics

National Insurance is a deduction from earnings, set up originally to fund various State benefits such as the NHS, the State pension and other welfare-related schemes. In reality, it is just another tax. In fact, as standard income tax rates have remained constant for many years, NI rates have soared. In this article we look [...]

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