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    Can Twitter Help to Generate Traffic with in a short period?

    Twitter's great but only as part of your wider marketing mix. It's about awareness of your brand, keeping it active and adding personality. You also need to know the best way to us it for your particular business model. It's worth integrating it with LinkedIn or FaceBook to minimise time but by...
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    Anyone used People per hour?

    My 5 year old has just outbid you and will do the logo for a lollipop :)
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    Not good for UK business? Olympic Ticket printing Awarded to US company!

    Council preferred suppliers have all been through a process of proving that they have systems in place and are of a stable nature to handle tax-payers contracts. We'd all complain if they gave them to some bloke down the road that no-one's ever heard of. However, I do feel that they could be a...
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    Business link died?

    You may get to speak to somebody but they won't necessarily be that skilled. Their role is to mostly sign-post you to other business initiatives and link you to information on their site.
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    Best place for a new logo

    Get out a do some networking where you'll meet loads of designers. You may not be able to afford many of them but ask them if they know somebody who can help you on your small budget. The design community seem to know each other pretty well and will help if they can. You'll get lots of benefits...
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    Employee sickness

    Think about how much money this guy is costing the company? For a fraction of the future cost, you should take on the services of an employment law specialist to guide you through the procedures. Also think of it as a training cost for you so you can learn for the next time and get better...
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    Should I bother with Yell.com?

    Hi, I concur with the above. Yell is best suited to people who don't want, can't be bothered or don't want to be bothered about creating half decent site and learn for yourself. I suggest you continue to invest some time to keep optimising your site with local metatags including suburbs, areas...
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    Answering service +basic help ?

    Hi Jon, We have a dedicated team to pick up and guide your customers for you. We're not a call centre. We will provide you with a local or non-geographic phone number too to go with it and this has missed call alerts and a call tracking system so you can monitor us!!
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    How to choose an accountant

    We found ours at a local village fayre. He was human, with a family and normal, even smiling when it wasn't time to complete a tax return! Many/most are very similar and do very similar work. I suggest you find someone who's a tax specialist so you can plan forward rather than backwards, but...
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    Insurance

    My brother is a plaster and uses insurance work to fill gaps in between private clients. He doesn't get paid as much doing insurance work but there's no marketing to do either. One down side was that he had to set up a limited company which does add a little to the admin side, but overall, it...
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    Network rail bosses

    It would have been easy for them to just take the money that they're entitled to and once another news story hits the headlines, we all move on. Am pleased there seems to be an open discussion on this and I do hope that good people will be paid well for doing a good job and not just because of...
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    Quiet months in retail high streets

    In a previous life, I've helped retailers look for different markets depending on their product type. This included learning about how to engage with the web to sell products, planning for fairs to attend, etc. In essence, during quiet times, the shops become 'money-making' offices where you're...
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    Quiet months in retail high streets

    The art of running a good retail operation is to have different products for different people at different times of the day, or day of the week. By this I mean that if your shop is likely to have a slow footfall from time to time, for whatever reason (bad position, empty shops nearby, etc), you...
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    Business mentors and funding

    I mentor some business owners and always ask them to politely challenge me on what I say. You will hopefully get lots of advice on your business journey and it's okay for you to seek to qualify this advice. You need to take the responsibility for your own actions of course. My advice to you is...
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    Little returns on my google Adwords clicks

    I have to agree with the others. Forget Adwords for now and somehow get yourself a web site where you can communicate your message(s) better. Please try to visualise as much as possible as people tend to speed read on the web otherwise you're just spending money on people who leave straight...
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