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Ozzy
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Ecommerce
A UKBF member posted something that will make the stomach drop for anyone who sells on a marketplace. That is @Freakzilla, in Competitor On Ebay Making False Reports of counterfeit products to Ebay. He had also asked eBay to look at the volume of reports coming from one individual, and got...
Ozzy
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News
John Healey gave his first big speech as chancellor this morning, standing in front of a row of industrial robots at the Manufacturing Technology Centre in Coventry, with manufacturing apprentices sat in the front row. It was a good backdrop, well chosen. While he was speaking, Jaguar Land...
Lord Moore
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Technology
Back in January, a UKBF member called @Byzantium put up a complaint that'll sound familiar to a lot of business owners. He does his own books in Excel, properly - a chart of accounts matching what his accountants use for filing, every transaction categorised, accruals and prepayments done...
Ozzy
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News
If you run a business in Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds or Bristol, you were probably told some good news this week. The Times reported on Wednesday that as many as 90,000 London roles in banking, law and accountancy are forecast to move out of the capital over the next five years, taking a £9...
Ozzy
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Sales & Marketing
On 5 August, @Data Swami posted in the General Business Forum with a question that ought to have a short answer. He had spent six months building out an AI agent setup for his own business, working through the errors, the wasted usage and the blind alleys until it did what he needed. People had...
Ozzy
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Legal & Financial
Companies House published a release on August 6th 2026 that every company director should read, even those who think none of it applies to them. The headline is this: 23 company directors were disqualified in the first six months of 2026 for persistent or serious non-compliance with their...
maka
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Legal & Financial
If you are a sole trader or landlord and your gross income from self-employment and property was over £50,000 on your 2024/25 tax return, Making Tax Digital for Income Tax now applies to you, and your first quarterly update is due on 7 August 2026. That is the headline. Here is the part worth...
Ozzy
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News
If all goes to plan (or rather, to Labour's timetable), Andy Burnham will be sworn in as Prime Minister on 20 July. He is currently the only declared candidate to succeed Keir Starmer, having returned to Westminster after winning the Makerfield by-election last month. Barring a late challenger...
Ozzy
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Sales & Marketing
TL;DR Search has shifted from "ten blue links" to answer engines, and the click is dying: Google AI Overviews now cut organic click-through rates by around 58% for the top result (Ahrefs, December 2025), the UK has the highest zero-click rate of any country analysed — only 23.2% of total...
Ozzy
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Starting Up
There's a comforting myth that you need a booming economy to start something. Cheap money, confident customers, the wind at your back. It feels true. It mostly isn't. Some of the most durable companies we know were started in the teeth of a downturn — when money was tight, the headlines were...

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