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    What type of decisions do you find most difficult to make?

    I have a really silly one. I've been burying my head in the sand about getting us out of the Microsoft ecosystem. We use a lot of it though, from device management (MDM), compliance, SharePoint, Outlook, Teams, Entra... and so on. Its not straightforward for us to get out of MS and im guilty of...
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    Looking to help a few small businesses with a free website

    Hmm. I actually think you shouldn't offer free sites, @ToffeeStack . With your experience, you should be offering solid packages, which could range from just framework or components through to multilingual, content, SEO, Ecommerce packages etc. You're clearly underselling yourself. Why not start...
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    What are you using for Financial Forecasting

    🤣 Joking apart, I call that the "plan", i.e. sits above forecast and is for the FY based on company objectives (or partner objectives!). I define "forecast" as being based on the percentage likelihood of all open deals going ahead + active revenue for live work (closed-deals) 🤣
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    MTD – more admin than expected?

    I’m reading all the points and comments again after several days, and I think part of the issue is that all of this often gets framed purely as a compliance exercise or as something done to keep the accountant happy. From my side, I tend to look at it through a broader operational lens. Timely...
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    MTD – more admin than expected?

    I agree with that and I can agree a lot of smaller businesses want the freedom of running their own business without feeling like they are taking on another system to manage. Thats understandable, but it doesn't remove the governance responsibility that comes with being in business in the first...
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    What is a reasonable payment term?

    In my view, payment terms are somewhat influenced based on what the cash flow expectation is of the business. In particular, how much cost you're accruing each month and whether your revenue (or cash if you're cash basis rather than accrual) is offsetting your costs each month. It will also...
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    AI In Your Business

    Yes, I do, and it has become a fundamental part of our business process. The system I’ve developed interfaces with our CRM, Xero and our own internal systems to cross-check data reliability, preserve a single source of truth, support batch handling, and maintain auditability across the...
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    Barclays Business - disappointing tech

    Assuming you're after the PDF invoices, have you tried the mobile app? I've often seen the PDF editions going back quite far.
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    MTD – more admin than expected?

    I think David is getting to the heart of it. Once you move beyond a small number of clients, the pressure starts to come from scale, consistency and operational control across the client base. Each client can have a different accounting treatment, tracking structure, reporting expectation and...
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    Avenues for digital marketing IT/cloud company.

    LinkedIn? If you're target marked is predominantly businesses of course.
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    Need advice on Wix vs Shopify for scaling my UK running brand

    I do agree with the sentiment on proprietary systems, and I think its important at least from a data perspective, but you would need a lot of resources for maintenance, upkeep, security etc. I would also urge having the capability inside the organisation to manage those, rather than outsourcing...
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    Cloud Provider Website Review

    Ha! Yes, true! I saw that one too. To be honest, I only read about something similar, including the one on the BBC page: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0rpy7envr5o, but I thought the concept was interesting. Truthfully, I haven't run any numbers as I'm spinning too many plates atm, so I've not looked...
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    Cloud Provider Website Review

    :) very true. Just to give you a picture, I personally set up their site-to-site tunnels to connect a company's private network across multiple subnets across multiple data centres, for extra compute, business operations and failover. There's also automatic database replication happening...
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    Cloud Provider Website Review

    I've just had a customer who's thrown their toys out because of some issue at Hetzner in Germany. They now want to re-deploy some key critical infrastructure here in Britain. The problem is less about data laws or even latency, but more to do with the contracts and SLAs. I don't blame the...
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    Cloud Provider Website Review

    @ThatDevAaron is your datacentre in Chicago? Do you have a data centre here in Britain?
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