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Setting up a ltd company - unusual situation?
Hi Everyone, I'm looking for some advice on setting up a limited company and I'm trying to identify what my best options are. Basically, myself and a business partner want to establish a web development/marketing company but both have very different working positions - I currently work full time and take home a salary of…
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Promoting your service to charities and small businesses
Do mail shots work to promote yourself ? What are the most successful methods ?
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Best Timesheet Software for Small IT Biz
Hi I work for a small IT business with around 15 engineers. We are looking for timesheet software which would enable them to book the time spent on customer contracts via smart phones. Does anyone have any experience of anything like this? Thanks
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Are there any disadvantages of setting up a limited company in jersey rather than uk?
Ok, it seems silly that UK has 20% corporation tax. Jersey has 0% corporation tax and £600 flat fee. What is the disadvantage of setting up a jersey limited company and paying 0% corporation tax - has long as your company is making over £3000 per year you are beating the UK - yes there's a matter of a registered office,…
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Advice on subcontracting work as self employed individual
I am currently self employed but myself and my husband are setting up a new business which short term he will help with as he was made redundant but long term I will run. This can easily run alongside what I currently do. My questions are: * should I keep the new business under my self employed status and my husband sets…
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Job title?
I have started working for a friend with a very small business, but we're struggling to give me a title, because I play lots of roles. I'm hoping all you helpful folk can help. I do most of the IT related marketing, also sales, research on business support, other marketing, driver, admin work; receipts, etc. and generally…
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Not sure what to do with my business?
I set up a small domestic cleaning business over a year ago. Now due to my husband starting a new job full time, I will now be staying at home with our children and won't be able to work. The business has a perfect reputation and has been very profitable and it seems a shame to just close it down after so much hard work.…
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Childrens make a bear parties
People near me drive to the next county for build a bear parties. I am hoping to start up a business having make a bear parties in the home. I am a primary school teacher so CRB checked, good with children etc, and am just wanting feedback on my plan really- Arrive at home venue, make make/stuff own bear, decorate t shirt…
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Help with naming shop pls?
I am planning to open a coffee shop / milkshake Bar but am struggling with a suitable name. We will be selling cupcakes, coffee, milkshakes & maybe sandwiches. I expect there to be a high level of younger people in but out of school hours so I want to make sure that during the day I still attract a wide range of ages for…
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Internet Startup Advice?
Hi, I have an idea for a website that i think would be quite successful (after alot of work of course). Now i have a moderate amount of experience and knowledge in web design but nowhere near enough to make a real professional looking site etc. Now i don't know anyone who is proficient in web design so was wondering if…
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Events Company..
Hello, Myself and my sister are looking at setting up an events company to organise events for families with children, like baby shows, days out etc.. Has anyone got any advice as it's completely new to us both!.. Well not at running our own business, I have 4 children and she is a retail manager in a children/baby store…
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commercial landlord holding my property
hi i rent a unit and recently fell behind with the rent (half a month) The landlord changed the locks and didn't give me the new keys until i had paid the outstanding amount, which was fine. When I re-entered the unit i found that two large machines had gone missing. I was about to call the police when the landlord told me…
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Getting a company logo made? Who, where, how much?
How do I go about this please? I have ZERO creative skills. We made a logo when we first started the business and a competitor nicked the design and hers is pretty much ideantical to mine - colour, font style, everything - dont know why I have left it this long, but I want a change. Where do I find someone who makes logos…
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Question, Can anyone help? Petitons
How many signtures does the government need for them to raise an issue in the commons? http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/wchcsaveoceanward/ We are trying to save our childrens heart ward! Thank you
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Director and being an employee
My partner is the director of his own company that was set up in 2007. since 2007 he has worked for himself through the business and for a short time he worked for other companies full time. During working full time through other companies he didn't take any wage from his business as he wasn't contracting through it and so…
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Phone book advert problems
We put an advert in the phone book, got a proof and on it's own it looks fine, BUT, now it's in the book it has been put immediately underneath our main competitor (doing almost the same thing) with exactly the same photograph from bt's art dept. Why don't they send a proof of the whole psge, before the final print? Or at…
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Question, Could anyone help me?-Petitions
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Client gave me money, company gone bust, what happens now?
Hi Hope this is the right place and someone can give me some advice please! I run training courses in beauty. I am self employed through a larger company who supply the kits. I ran a course with some girls and they paid me in cash for the kits. The day after I paid this into my business bank account and then called the…
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Stamp Duty on Rent review
Hi Guys, Hope you can help. I'm renewing my rental contract for my therapy business and the landlord was planning to give me a 6 year contract with a view to reviewing the rent in 3 years, but she has mentioned that if there is a rent review and contract longer than 1 year then I would have to pay stamp duty after the rent…
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Invoice Advice
Good afternoon, I have what I think is a simple question, but I haven't been able to find an answer to it anywhere. Can I invoice as an individual (not part of a business)? I am employed full time, but have been asked by another company to do some freelance work in my spare time. They require me to invoice them for…