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    Worldpay pay as you go card acceptance massive hike in fees

    I signed up to Wordpay's card acceptance pay as you go scheme a couple of months back and the rate for debit cards was a flat fee of 75p. Today I went to their website and noticed they now charge 2.75% for a debit card. That's a rather massive rise and is about £41 on £1500. Debit cards...
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    sum up card reader

    I signed up to the Worldpay pay as you go card acceptance service mentioned earlier. The rate for processing a card is a little higher than I had with lloyds TSB Cardnet but there are no monthly fees, Cardnet was costing me £24.99 terminal rental and £35 a month minimum fee so I'm happy to pay...
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    Advice on a lease that has ended

    I had an 18 month lease on a credit card terminal (With First Data Global Leasing) which came to an end and I carried on leasing the terminal for another 4 or 5 years until the lease company started putting pressure on to sign a new 4 year contract which i didn't want. I cancelled my lease...
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    Resale of Zero Vat Rated Items?

    The OP says he is a photographer, as I am. He isn't selling a random book he is selling a book of his photographs (commissioned by the client buying the book) and I presume he is designing the book. He doesn't state if the book is included as a package with photography but I presume it is. This...
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    Resale of Zero Vat Rated Items?

    It is my opinion you would have to charge VAT. Photo books are now zero rated for VAT but photography and design are still rated at 20 percent. If your business is creating photo books then the product is zero rated, but if you are reselling the books at a profit and including design and...
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    Creating a brand

    They charge from £100 to £700, how exactly is that getting it spot on? I'm sorry, but if they are a successful brand they would be able to charge at least 10x that amount. All I see is fairly standard photography and a bog standard template website. Am I missing something? Google Jeff...
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    Creating a brand

    There are a number of ways I define this. Firstly many photographers would just take a series of photographs of what is in front of them without giving any thought to how these sit together as a story. The result is a disjointed set of photographs, which although may look good enough, do not...
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    Creating a brand

    The other issue in the UK is that most celebrities don't bother hiring a wedding photographer, they just get Hello to pay them a million to take them.
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    Creating a brand

    That's true to a point. In the US there are wedding photographers charging huge amounts ($50k), in the UK the very top market is only in the region of £3k to £5k. You could probably count on one finger the number of UK photographers getting £5k per wedding.
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    Creating a brand

    Thanks everyone, this has been very interesting. When I say I want to be the best or one of the best wedding photographers, I mean in the documentary market, which is where I operate. There are maybe a dozen or so really good documentary wedding photographers in the UK and hundreds who...
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    Creating a brand

    Around 80 percent of my clients book without meeting me. My website initially draws them in, I also have sample albums at venues and other means of marketing. To start with I just want to get people interested enough to enquire (about 75 percent of those who do enquire go no further once they...
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    Creating a brand

    Oh, I have just figured what you mean. The rest of the page hidden on purpose, it's not there for you to read. All I want you to see is the photographs, logo and the enter/blog etc. The links below are purely for search engine traffic, Google doesn't like hidden text, so you have to be a...
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    Creating a brand

    Thank you for pointing that out, do you know what your screen resolution is please? The home page has some script which should centre it regardless of what size screen you have, the flash pages should also adjust size depending on your screen size. Most people have at least 1024x800 pixels, at...
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    Creating a brand

    Sorry guys and girls, I have a lot of weddings to do which take me out of the office. Next week I have a wedding on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday, all at opposite ends of the country.
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    Creating a brand

    Thanks Denise. My name is already in use as a domain name by somebody else. I don't think it matters too much as if you google my name and photography my website is at the top of Google.
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