Just a quick snippet, this one. If you’re VAT registered, you need to charge VAT to people within the EU, unless they provide a valid VAT number. Whilst e-commerce packages are getting better, and one or two even understand the full rules of VAT, most have implemented a much more …
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Moving towards a paperless office with Scansnap and Evernote
The search for a paperless office. Well, that’s the dream, no? But whilst it’s been technically possible for a while, it’s just been far too clunky for me to ever get anywhere with it.
Lord knows, I’ve tried. I’ve used all sorts of methods of filing, scanning, categorising, sorting and …
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Improving your Google rank – Make your site fast!
One of the things that is often overlooked when looking at search engine optimisation is speed. Google actually rewards you for making your site load fast. Site load time is a factor that goes towards your page rank, so clearly not something to ignore.
This post is just a high …
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How to write an ebook – part 2
Just a quick one, this one, to get us ready for the heavy lifting. Just in case you need a bit of help installing Sigil, I thought I’d use this as a chance to learn a bit about making video. I haven’t done this video thing before, but it doesn’t …
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Good start-up and general business thoughts here…
I recommend this site. It’s well worth an hour of your time, as long as you promise to take action from what you learn!
Specific articles I liked:…
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Get me out of here! Thoughts on cancelling a service…
We’ve just shut down a merchant account and a payment gateway. The merchant account from HBOS / First Data was costing us time and money to jump through PCI hoops every year, and the payment gateway from Iridium Corp seemed to have some trouble with cards from abroad – especially …
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Keeping tabs on yourself…
I was reading an article recently which recommended keeping an eye on your personal and company names, to see who’s mentioning you where. This is good advice generally, and will be the subject of a longer post. But this made me laugh…
I was recommended to a social media search …
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5 tips for selecting your Virtual Worker – reworked!
Ok, so this post is going to be a quick brain-dump, answering a challenge I sort of made to myself, that I could come up with a more actionable, and thus hopefully more useful list of things than are listed here: http://smallbizbee.com/index/2011/05/20/5-tips-on-selecting-your-virtual-worker/
My problem with this post is that the …
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Twitter: musings on the value of social proof
Pomcat has recently been given some business from an online marketer we’re working with (David Endersby of TW18 Business Media). What David did is keep an eye on his Twitter universe, and spotted a person after a website. He put the two of us in touch. Simple as that….
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More reasons to avoid Flash on your sites.
Posted on November 11, 2011 by Jake in Comment
Microsoft have announced that the latest version of their Internet Explorer for touch-based devices will not support Flash.
Dean Hachamovitch, the Internet Explorer team leader has commented that plug-ins were important in the past, but that HTML5 is what will be used in the future.
Does your site make use …
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