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    Business costs for Retail Shop

    £400 for web hosting and maintenance seems to be a low-balled figure in my opinion. Hosting is cheap enough anywhere, but you won't get much in terms of maintenance for £400 per year. If the hosting is £100 per year, that only leaves £300 for maintenance, which is only 15 updates all year if...
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    OpenCart 1.5.x and PayPal Standard Vulnerability Discovered

    Sounds like a pretty serious bug, thanks for the heads up. I'll have our developer confirm this weekend and pick up your extension.
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    The Hardest Thing In Business...

    Time management is probably my biggest issue. There always seems to be a never ending to do list, and I actually think I'm quite good at delegating jobs. The trouble is we're a start up business so my staff all still need my guidance because our systems are new to them.
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    Starting a forum

    Personally I've always used PunBB 1.2, and then I migrated to FluxBB 1.2 when the software was forked due to an ownership change at PunBB. It really depends on the type of community you are opening, and how much customisation you'll require. Personally I prefer a lightweight, minimal features...
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    Website Ownership

    I recently had a similiar situation and it was a horrible position to be in. The owner of the business had died, and there was a legal battle between his widow and son (from a previous marriage). They were both phoning and emailing me claiming that they were the true owner of the website, and...
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    Anyone had experience with GoDaddy?

    I have a VPS with GoDaddy and never had a problem really. Couple of small issues which there UK support team fixed quickly for me. My uptime has always been over 99%. I hosted a Wordpress site on their Wordpress Hosting and wasn't as impressed. Seemed slower, and they had restrictions on what...
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    Techniques getting traffic to your website

    Who am I supposed to pay for the evidence? I've been a self employed web developer for 10 years so I know how social media works. We can agree to disagree. I'd just rather pay to automate areas of social media and get on with work that gives me a much higher ROI. Your own article on your site...
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    Techniques getting traffic to your website

    I'd love to know why you think it's the worst advice ever? Do you have any facts to back up your claims, or are you regurgitating advice you've read elsewhere on the web and taken as gospel? The fact is 6000 tweets are posted per second. A small business will struggle to ever get noticed by...
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    Techniques getting traffic to your website

    You mentioned Facebook, but what about the other social networks? Facebook may be the biggest but it's not necessarily the right platform for business :) Have you taken a look at Pinterest, LinkedIn, Twitter etc. If you don't feel social media is a good fit for your business then just stick it...
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    Is the end near for eBay?

    I've recently started selling stuff on a local "buy/sell" facebook group as it's so much easier than Ebay. I take a photo on the mobile and send it to the group. I get multiple messages within an hour and have always sold the item for cash the same day. I maybe get less than I would on ebay, but...
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    Supplier price fixing

    More and more suppliers will start doing this in future in my opinion, and I can understand why too. They are probably trying to protect their brands image, and don't want to see all of their customers (like you!) in a race to the bottom price wise. By requesting all customers sell for no less...
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    HMRC

    Business would be much easier without having to deal with HMRC :)
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    Invoicing - new start up

    Just to throw another one in the mix, I use Kashflow because it was recommended by my accountant. He can login at the year end to pull down all the info he needs, and as an added bonus it also integrates into Opencart which I'll be paying a hefty fee for in the near future :(
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    Can anyone recommend a decent web host with good support

    I will probably get run off the forum for saying this, but these days I would actually recommend GoDaddy. I've used them for a number of sites and have tried the regular "Web Hosting" package, their "Wordpress Hosting" package, and now I'm on one of their "VPS" Packages. I've had no downtime, I...
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    What is the best retail business to open in 2015?

    I find the coffee shop industry a bizarre one truth be told. My high street is full of them, all independent, and all of them consistently busy and catering to their own niche. 15 years ago there wasn't a single coffee shop, now they're everywhere. We have the greasy spoon - outdated decor but...
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