Recent content by torby

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    Honesty in business or is it all “smoke and mirrors”

    Apologies tried to post image of accounts but failed Bottom line Capital and Reserves £3.9k
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    Honesty in business or is it all “smoke and mirrors”

    recently had dealings with a firm/business who claim to own a plant for e.g. “making widgets” , this firm only has one employee, and has filed at companies house etc but their accounts seem quite small compared to other “widget making” businesses. I’m aware that similar businesses need a...
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    Xara built website causes "virus warnings"?

    Thanks for that advice, I had deleted the whole website and after running scans locally on all the files I uploaded them again to GoDaddy, where the hosting is done, I've also run some of those online website checkers (you probably know the type) "check if the website you're viewing is free from...
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    Xara built website causes "virus warnings"?

    I've built a website (well a few for friends all in the music business) and just today I've got a call from one of them saying a couple of people visited the website recently and their "virus checker" said the site "wasn't safe" or some other type of warning. In the 8 or 9 years I've been making...
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    Benetton Job Interview/Assessment

    I've had this brought to my attention by a family friend and by my reckoning, at the minimum wage they should have been paid approx £50...the fact they were given only £20 sounds to me like some law has been flouted in that by making the payment they have acknowledged that "paid work" was...
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    Web Site maintenance & updates...

    Thanks everyone so far....I had reckoned on that figure to allow me about £10/hr after tax etc and help keep his running costs down....I had an inkling he may come back to negotiate and I can't help wondering if thats what I was hoping for to give me a "get out" strategy....sometimes I hate...
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    Web Site maintenance & updates...

    here's the rub...I've been asked to take over the maintenance and updating of 6 or 7 websites. I didn't actually build them and I won't be getting any of that work in the near future apart from constructing the odd additional page. I have advised the owner that I charge by the hour, with a...
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    Employment law?...P45 issues ?

    Here's a post I have on MSE...only after posting did I realise...perhaps I should try my friends over on the Business Forum...so here goes? Confusion abounds....lol....what would you do... Friend was in the office over the weekend catching up on some work.... saw their P45 sitting with a...
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    A quick rant about motoring legal cover

    I think (unfortunately) the old saying applies...."you can't get blood out of a stone"...hence the insurers reluctance to chase...they can't win....
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    On Site advertising....

    no need to PM you, the question is in the OP...have you an idea of cost?...or are you touting for business....your reply may say more than you think...:)
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    How much to place a banner on your site?

    we've been running adsense by google to raise a few £'s to cover hosting etc and I've checked the stats for the last month.... according to them we had 10,002 page impressions...and I've no doubt their stats are probably right....so if that helps in working out a cost....not very good at this am...
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    On Site advertising....

    trying this forum instead... We currently run another web site as a labour of love, we don't make any money from it but have been approached by a radio station about a reciprocal deal. We show their banner and they mention us on the country radio show...we reckon its a good deal for us and...
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    Introducing S7 Media (Web.Brand.Design.Video)

    Hi Scott, welcome.... "we specialise in Web Design, Corporate Branding and Videography. We are very competitively priced and have an extensive Web Portfolio which includes E-Commerce sites, Content Managed Systems and Standard information sites." can't find it...your site says "coming...
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    How much to place a banner on your site?

    crikey...I thought I would have got a bit of a response on here....lol...its not as though I only have 1 or 2 posts...:)