Recent content by Jawaid Karim

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    Simple VoIP recommendations?

    Hi @TBLZ, We specialise in providing VOIP solutions to small businesses, feel free to call us on 0800 046 9943 for a no obligation chat
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    Franking Machine or Hybrid Mail

    Not sure if this is the right place for this, but here goes..... I am in the process of starting to send mailshots to new companies that have just been registered, who may not have an email address, so need to use the good old postal system. I have been looking at the options available, namely...
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    Simple VoIP recommendations?

    Not sure if you have sorted something out or not yet, but feel free to get in touch, if I can be of any help. I provided hosted phone systems, as well as email & website hosting. Feel free to call on 01282 573500.
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    Help my website is down

    Hi Clareob, Sadly Wesh.uk is right, this is starting to become more common problem. I recently had a customer come to me, as they wanted me to provide their phone system, but also as it turned out, one of the big name providers had stopped providing domain names and website hosting, and so...
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    Starting out with WP & Woo but which theme??

    Which page builder would you suggest? I tried Beaver Builder, but found that to be clunky. I guess it just depends on what you are used to.
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    Starting out with WP & Woo but which theme??

    I have designed some ecommerce websites with Wordpress/Woocommerce and used the OceanWP theme. Another theme that may be worth looking at is Phlox, the free versions may help you get started, and the pro version are not too expensive either.
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    External hard drive recommendation?

    I have for the last few years, setup and been using a cloud system on my own server using 'Nextcloud', have been really happy with it. The drives I currently have in there are Toshiba ones, and have had no issues with them. I did originally have Seagate ones, but over time they had faults, so...
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    VOIP softphone instead of physical phone

    Depending on your provider, most platforms have apps available for mobile phones/tablets, as well as for pc/laptops, perhaps you could look into those. Personally I still prefer a physical phone over an app, as I have different buttons configured to show the status of the other extensions in...
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    To VAT register or not to VAT register?.. that is the question

    I was in exactly the same position around 18 months ago, but what made register for VAT, was the fact most of my customers are VAT Registered businesses and as such thought it would be good to get VAT registered, from the beginning, so that's what I did. Either way if you are registered or not...
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    Building a B2B database from scratch

    Hi, I have a small business providing hosted phone systems and web/email hosting. Like others on here, I have been trying to get a GDPR compliant list of Businesses to target and hopefully make customers. I currently have customers such as solicitors and kids nurserys. I can accommodate any...