Recent content by Mick Johnson

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    Cancel yell.com advert

    Did you get anything in writing as to the number of enquiries you would get (not your business area). I suspect not, but if you did, you could terminate for breach of contract on their part, although they may have something in their terms that they have a right to remedy thier breach - basically...
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    Funky Wood

    Out of interest, what aspect of the skirting boards have you managed to copyright - I can't see it standing up in court that the designs (nice as they are) are 'substantially' different to others that are available. Unfortunately, as many others have pointed out, copyrighted or not, you'll...
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    False Self Employment in Construction - an update

    It's been on the cards for a long time this one. The whole IR35 saga for professional contractors years ago had the same idea, but left enough loopholes to get around it. As usual, I suspect it's the smaller companies who'll be punished most by this, I'm sure the big companies will find a...
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    xml sitemap or google webmaster

    Eddie, The sitemap is an xml file that you submit to Google through their webmaster tools - it basically tells google what pages are on your site. I would say that if the site's been there since November and still isn't indexed there's something wrong, especially if your friend has had this...
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    What a business idea!

    Also, what would you tell your friends you do for a living:D
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    Anyone work for Nationwide Electrical?

    'New' PAT testing coming in?? - the regs haven't changed for a few years now and unless I've missed something they're not changing any time soon. Just a pet hate, 'PAT testing' - read 'portable appliance testing testing':rolleyes:
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    hi, need help

    Might have just found the answer to why 70% of all small businesses fail.....
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    a typical small business owner's experience of commissioning and owning a website?

    I'm not getting on my soapbox here, but.... As a company, we get many clients through our door who have had exactly the same experience - website done, looks nice (or sometimes not) and then they're just abandoned with an empty website and told to fill in the gaps. SEO, non-existent...
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    Urgent Advice Needed Re: Pro Formas And Invoices

    Do you have the purchase order that you sent them (or any other document) that states what you wanted to be delivered? If so, then they don't have a leg to stand on. Does the pro-forma invoice they sent you confirm the exact specification? Again, you're ok. If they change the final invoice...
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    Ltd Company Problems!

    As equal shareholders you and the other director do have the power to stop the spending. If you want to make things awkward for him, you could implement a spending level limit, i.e. all expenditure over x amount has to be agreed by all directors, or similar. Whatever you do, do something now -...
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    Are pre-packaged Shareholder Agreements useable?

    Personally, I'd want something a bit more watertight. As you say: The 'or similar' bit might be worth a lot of money if all goes well. If it were me, I'd get a professionally drafted contract that states the exact position of all parties. Any ambiguity could cause big headaches as the stakes...
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    duplicate(ish) pages showing in google

    Not sure if I've fully understood the problem, but I'll give it a go!! From the sounds of it, you may have missed the '.html' extension off some/all of your pages when you put them together in dreamweaver. All files need the extension on the end (.html if they're just 'normal' pages, .php if...
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    Website legal question

    There certainly can be a legal status to a partnership and british law even has elements that can be deemed to be, i.e. if you've operated the same way for many years without a formal partnership, it could be deemed to be a partnership in law. That bit doesn't really help, but I would say that...
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