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    Duplicate product descriptions and Google

    is worth watching
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    Should the UK have a tax limit to put off tax evaders

    Of course one radical and idealogical solution would be to abolish income tax and VAT altogether and have a flat rate tax on (most) goods and services. That way everyone pays a fair amount based on what they buy irrespective of income - for instance someone buying a modest 3 bed home would pay...
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    0800 Number or Landline On Website?

    Why don't you offer both numbers to give customers a choice? Monitor the number of calls you get on each and that will tell you what's popular and possibly if one hardly gets used you can drop it and use the most used one.
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    SEO question - Page content and archives

    Absolutely you should be showing news items on the news landing page - that's what most people will expect. As for "archives" monthly archives are of little use unless your content is strictly time/date specific, so yes I'd say organising by topic is much more useful.
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    Leaflet Distribution - Letterbox counting software?

    Royal Mails Postcode Address File (PAF) database has number of delivery points for each postcode, each postcode sector and each postcode area. Get a copy of that and you can get your numbers that way...
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    Shop or cafe layout software suggestions?

    Nothing in particular but if you do a web search for something like "room planner software" you get 100's of suggestions...
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    Problem with parking in my customers spaces - hellllp!

    Have you thought about calling the police up to complain about non-customers cars being "abandoned" on your property? Maybe if you complained enough they may do something?
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    Features on a website

    Depends on the type of business but as @fisicx said it should boil down the the basics. Put yourself in a customers shoes, what information/features might you look for? The answer should be self evident!
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    Guide Download from website

    Dodgy ;) It really depends on why you want the information and what your visitor sees. You could call it a promotion, an offer, newsletter subscription...
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    Some help with my website

    It shouldn't be that expensive, all you need is a simple shopping cart type system, albeit not using the actual checkout part. 1. Create entries for all the items you want the customer to choose from, remember to add a price value to each entry, as well as all the other info like images, blurb...
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    Google - Hard to find anything now

    Some search results have been rubbish for a while now, more often than not I tend to skip the first few pages by default. You can find some really good stuff on the lower level pages ! What also may help us changing the number of results per page in googles search settings...
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    Would you use this service, and how much would you pay?

    Of all my clients only around 10% look at their google analytics where they have them! Most prefer something a lot simpler like AWStats, though that's only for general info which is what they're interested in. That said I think a service offering to do deep analysis is well worth offering...
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    E-commerce solution for online vintage store

    There are literally hundreds of ecommerce platform which could suit your business, eg for supporting clothing products. Any half decent system would be more than capable! From the nature of what you then a stock control facility will be essential so items that you only have one of can be...
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    New Payment Gateway - Stripe

    Yep, been using it for a couple of years, good API and very easy to integrate :)
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    Client offering equity

    I agree - run away very quickly.
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