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    VPS Hosting Website Review

    Neither of which I got from your site the 0.99 plan immedaiately went from my head as my brain dismissed itas too trivial to be useful the next plan up seems slightlly large at 8gb and my gut feel was it was expensive, ironically pricing in £ made it difficult for me to mentally place the...
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    An Event Manager Plugin

    That registration screen looks familiar :)
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    Wordpress or From-Scratch Websites?

    what an interesting thread. And quite a lot of miss understanding. However, just thought I'd comment the common understanding of self-hosted is that you have complete comtrol over your app and data, this can be acheived by using a shared host or using a PaaS or a VPS or bare metal. The...
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    VPS Hosting Website Review

    A very generic hosting page -looks like a reseller possibly. "We are a leading provider of virtual private servers (VPS) and cloud hosting solutions." really - I thought that would be AWS,or Google Cloud, or Digital Ocean, or Hetzner or Vultr For someone like me, who actually occasionally...
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    I think I could do with help running me, my projects and the business. Are there outsourced management services? Can I employ my own boss?

    I feel your pain it is very hard to be a developer when youhave distractions and management is distraction. Of course you can employ a manager or CEO but it seems you need a mix 1. Depending on your business an outsourced support analyst will do this or a VA 2. Tons of call answering...
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    What mission critical spreadsheets do you use?

    Sometime they are cost prohibitive. In my son's business he uses a job scheduling app to plan visits and notify customer and that links through to his accounting system for billing. However the job scheduling app lacks an ability to do route planning so he can plan visits on optimal routes...
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    Since Hermes rebranded to Evri it is now one of the best couriers(!)

    Same here Evri is just as bad as Hermes ever was. And as such I avoid any retailers that use Evri if I can.
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    Digital bookkeeping advice

    You need to have a separate bank account called Stripe. All you customer invoices are settled in full by the Stripe 'bank' account ) My accounting system ( and I guess Quickbooks if set up correctly ) get an automated feed from Stripe. Then your current account has a transfer from the Stripe...
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    How to increase price?

    First thing springs to mind 8% is small for those that have been with you for 6 years - but what about those that signed up last week? The gain of £3,700 assumes no loss from your approx 200 customers, a price rise is likely to mean 1%-2% will leave ( spurred on to make a decision) so your gain...
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    Head shots for your LinkedIn profile, email sig, etc

    A professional photographer will undoubtedly get a better result than a selfie. Whether that represent value or not is a different question. When I worked for big corporates and presenting at a conference then a professional photographer was wheeled in on site and would have cost many hundreds...
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    Needing to set up a UK business from abroad

    You can sell yearly subscriptions on via other platforms. You could take a look at BuyMeACoffee ( https://buymeacoffee.com/?via=wpdevalan my affilate link ) which has monthly / yearly subscription options and download options They will pay to a UK bank account without asking any deep...
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    Website review would be appreciated please

    I would suggest putting the primary selling message and CTA ( contact) at the top of each page and the gumpf underneath, as very few people scroll. If you are not sure, use a heatmap tool like hotjar.
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    What project management software do you use?

    I use Jira, as that works really well for software development, especially 'agile' style of projects but will work on anything. And it is free for up to 10 users so worth a look at. (Atlassian - the overall toolset company includes Trello - Trello is good for less complex and perhaps more...
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    Wordpress alternative

    @UkAppCoder thanks for the earlier apology BTW I deliberately don't get notified on post updates as it is too distracting. Your analogy of Software Engineer is a little bit off. In the construction world ( I don't know it that well ) you have structural engineers that do calculations that...
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    Was GDPR just a massive waste of time and money?

    To the extend that you now know that ANY contact by phone, text or email that is unsolicited is actually a scam / fraud / phishing attempt,
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