Recent content by Steven Tucker

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    Survey of small business owners

    Thank you thebigIAM and to everyone else who took the survey. The winner of the draw was Joanna Beales of The Pass Lane in Ramsgate. She will receive £50 in M&S vouchers.
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    Survey of small business owners

    I am conducting a survey to establish the holiday needs of business owners. If you could spare the time to answer the 6 simple questions, we will enter you into a draw to win £50 of M&S vouchers. You can take the survey here at surveymonkey.com/s/V6MM8C8 The survey closes at Midnight Friday...
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    Hi

    Hi everyone, I'm Steven, and I'm the MD of The Payroll Site Ltd. We offer an online payroll service for small UK businesses. We've been around since 2004 but I've only just got round to joining this useful forum. Steven.
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    Getting a good CPM rate?

    Speaking as an advertiser, I have always found content targeted advertising yields very low click through rates compared to search advertising. If you are using something like google adsense, the lower the click through rate, the less you are going to make per thousand impressions. A lot of...
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    Hardcopy HMRC forms and manuals

    HMRC have made it increasingly difficult to order the paper forms, but you can still get the employer forms by calling their orderline on 0845 764 6646.
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    Dividend payment

    As elainec100 says, the important thing is that the dividends must not exceed the retained profit. If you don't know how to work that out, get your accountant to do it. The amount you pay out will also affect the amount of tax you pay, but that's probably a less important issue.
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    Online accounting systems

    There are lots of online accounting sites out there, so I can see the sense in avoiding the ones who don't have enough customers to sustain themselves for long. Even if they have the backing of a big company, they are likely to pull the plug if they are making a loss every year. I looked into...