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    VAT from European countries

    I would also be interested in any advice that anyone can give. In my particular situation I bought a software upgrade from the Czech republic for 15.96 euros + 3.03 euros czech VAT (19%). As the value of the goods (the amount is actually just a shipping charge, the software was free) is under...
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    Recommend A UK Hosting Company

    For my personal sites I highly recommend 4UHosting http://www.4uhosting.co.uk/index.php?aid=jon74959 Everything I've ever needed - and I'm a web developer, so very demanding, plus the support is top notch (much better than easyspace, fasthosts etc). They'll usually try their best to accomodate...
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    Analytics

    Ditto, PM the URL and I'll have a gander too if you want. A yellow triangle in Internet Explorer means a Javascript error - which analytics service are you using?
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    When are invoices actually paid?

    Thanks for all the responses, I have been in touch with them this week, each time told that the invoices had been passed to the accounts dept. and once told that the payments were being made that day. So I guess if i don't see them in IB then they haven't been made, although we're with Abbey...
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    When are invoices actually paid?

    Hmm ok, thanks Nicola. Can anyone else weigh in on the subject, I'm confused now :|
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    When are invoices actually paid?

    Ok thanks for the advice, I'll leave it until the BACS period is definitely up to chase. I suppose it's perfectly alright for me to change my T&Cs for future contracts to say that cleared funds are due 30 days from invoice date? Thanks again!
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    When are invoices actually paid?

    Hi all, I have a question about invoice due date - a bit new to all this still so bear with me. I've issued some invoices which were/are all due this week (Monday, Tuesday and Thursday). As of this morning no funds have appeared in my online banking interface, so I'm wondering if this counts...
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    Test the water by myself or pay someone to do it?

    If you're just dabbling then by all means play around and see what happens. The Google Keyword Research Tool is probably the best indicator of good keywords as it tells you traffic and cpc levels as well as suggesting synonyms based on your phrases. However if you're going to be spending 1k -...
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    Social Media

    Hi Mobiletechnology, You are right in thinking that the text of an inbound link is important, it tells search engines what your site is about. Ditto for the content on the page that is linking to your site. Even if there's no descriptive text anywhere you'll still get the benefit of the...
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    Some help needed!

    Hi Barretts, First the good stuff - your page title tags look good, and you actually appear on the first page of google for the phrase "oxford student storage" - of course who knows how many people are searching for that? As OldWelshGuy said, you will need to run some adwords, do some link...
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    What Netbook?

    I have a few friends with netbooks, all different, MSI, Acer, Dell, Samsung, Asus and they all agree the nicest one overall is the NC10. Best battery, good screen, good performance, nice keyboard etc. If you look hard enough I think it can be found for 280 online (300 in currys)
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    New Site No Sales

    I agree with all the comments in this thread, the site has so many areas it can be improved in that it really needs to be re-done from the beginning. I'm gonna weigh in with my two pence, if anyone has anything to add or disagrees with anything I've said please respond. 1. Re-build your...
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    Introducing Phillips Internet

    We haven't started any advertising yet so not too worried about the site, although it will be live very soon. There are also a couple of sister sites to go live before any adwords / other advertising gets launched. It was supposed to go live on Friday afternoon but the server it's going on...
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    Conversion optimization

    I agree 100% on that, and also about 90% being ok if there's not enough data being sampled. One e-commerce site we've tested gets around 17 conversions a day, the tests take ages to run so we never go all the way to 98%. One freak occurrance we had was a test that went red :( within a few days...
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    Conversion optimization

    When I worked for a Google Consultant we ran tests for at least a month or until the result went red or green. For it to go green it needs to hit 98%, and google recommend not stopping a test until confidence hits 95%+. It usually takes a lot of data to hit this so you'll need to ensure you...
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