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    Black Friday / Cyber Monday - fad or useful for businesses

    It was really surprising to see how much it was embraced by the UK this year. Although have to say that in the main alot of the smaller businesses were only giving token discounts so 5% here 10% there. Based on last year I think 2015's will be bigger than ever and maybe even more fighting over...
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    Social Media

    Facebook works best as a B to C platform so that would be the first thing to establish. Competitions do work really will if a decent and desired prize and you're asking people to reshare, like, comment etc in order to win.
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    Will your business be gone by 2020?

    We already get alerted by text when a parcel is about to be delivered from certain companies. Potentially the alerts could just be more sophisticated, with a location given on your smartphone and a secure deployment of the parcel from the van. Either that or drones dropping them off. Either way...
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    Will your business be gone by 2020?

    Think we've probably all seen or experienced the distruption to the Taxi industry caused by Uber, or the High Streets caused by out of town shopping centres. There are lots of industries that have been distrupted by better technology in the last few years. Accountants do you fear the...
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    Are shows like 'The Apprentice' making small businesses look bad?

    "However, the contestants often find a way to manoeuvre themselves so that they look like absolute chumps, which I am sure the majority are not." Good point, guessing the editing process doesn't help them either!
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    Are shows like 'The Apprentice' making small businesses look bad?

    So it's 'The Apprentice' season again and I can't even bring myself to watch it anymore after being subjected to a mere 10mins of episode 2, (I missed Ep 1). I used to love the show in the early series but now it's everything I hate about business and it seems to be a complete fantasy drawn up...
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    Create Ads For Pinterest

    Interesting, had not considered advertising via Pinterest, shall investigate further. Thanks for sharing!
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    Which software for startup graphic design business

    Does also depend on what type of design you are going to be undertaking.. Logo / identity Design - Adobe Illustrator or other vector software needed. Multi page Brochure layout for print - Adobe In Design needed. Website design - Photoshop, though increasingly vector based software is...
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    Which software for startup graphic design business

    Your best bet is Adobe Creative Cloud, since Adobe moved all their software into the cloud the prices have gone from £1,000's to a more stretched out monthly fee starting from £15 per month if you are a student, up to £70 and beyond a month depending on what you want. Adobe Creative Cloud...
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    Anyone be shafted on ebay lately?

    Find Ebay very annoying these days, account hacked and there doesn't seem any resolution other than 'change your password'. Ebay don't seem bothered about trying to investigate the issue either.
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    Telephone answering for occasional use?

    Another recommendation for Jam or Answer.co.uk used them for years and can't fault their service or price point.
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    £100 new company.

    Great idea and an excellent work experience for your daughter no doubt.
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    Finding staff

    LinkedIn might be a good place to consider searching.
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    Pinterest and social networks

    Yep agreed, like most things, it takes work.
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    How much roughly is a top website?

    Like you said it's very tricky to say, it's almost the 'how long is a piece of string' question. The more detailed the spec you can put together the more likely you are to get an accurate price and there maybe ways to work around things. As some have said you can potentially spend ££'s or even...
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