Bytestart Small Business Newsletter #11

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Latest Small Business Updates

1. Number of small business start ups falls
2. Family Business and the Arctic Systems Ruling - Your Questions Answered
3. How they deal with "Happy Slapping" in the USA!
4. Ebay introduces "ProStores" to further boost sales
5. Small businesses struggle with HR duties
6. Teenage summer camps for would-be entrepreneurs
7. How well is your site doing in the search engines?
8. Where can you find decent staff these days?
9. UK business letting ideas 'slip through fingers'
10. Pay per Click – The Best System to Profit Internet Ads
11. EU "Sun Directive" branded absurd by pressure group
12. British Businesses could lose Intellectual Property Rights
13. Small business survey reveals sectoral and regional growth disparity
14. Never Run Out of Cash

Number of small business start ups falls

After achieving record highs last year the number of small business start ups fell in the first quarter of 2005 from 129,500 in Q1 2004 to 116,300, according to data released by Barclays last week.

http://www.bytestart.co.uk/content/news/1_12/number-of-small-business-.shtml

Family Business and the Arctic Systems Ruling - Your Questions Answered

Key legal questions answered following the controversial Arctic Systems Section 660 ruling. The implications of the ruling on husband and wife owners of a family business.

http://www.bytestart.co.uk/content/section660/25_1/family-business-and-the-a.shtml

How they deal with "Happy Slapping" in the USA!

We received quite an unusual email response to a recent article "Businesses want resort yob crackdown", following the negative effect of thug behaviour on small businesses in coastal towns.

http://www.bytestart.co.uk/content/news/1_12/how-they-deal-with-happy-.shtml

Ebay introduces "ProStores" to further boost sales

Auction giant, Ebay, has introduced a new product, Prostores, which will enable serious sellers to set up their own independent sites, but still process all their transactions via Ebay systems (incuding Paypal).

http://www.bytestart.co.uk/content/news/1_12/ebay-introduces-prostores.shtml

Small businesses struggle with HR duties

Small businesses are struggling to cope with the ever-increasing challenges of managing employees, according to a survey released today.

http://www.bytestart.co.uk/content/news/1_12/small-businesses-struggle.shtml

Teenage summer camps for would-be entrepreneurs

Gordon Brown is backing a scheme to develop summer camps for budding teenage entrepreneurs, according to a report in The Guardian earlier in the week.

http://www.bytestart.co.uk/content/news/1_12/teenage-summer-campsl-for.shtml

How well is your site doing in the search engines?

A variety of free online web marketing tools are available, showing how your small business website is doing over time, in all the major search engines.

http://www.bytestart.co.uk/content/promotion/7_8/how-well-is-your-site-doi.shtml

Where can you find decent staff these days?

We received an email from a Bytestart visitor, who has found it almost impossible to find decent staff despite all her best efforts.

http://www.bytestart.co.uk/content/news/1_12/where-can-you-find-decent.shtml

UK business letting ideas 'slip through fingers'

Vodafone UK has called on British businesses to do more to encourage their staff to put forward innovative ideas.

http://www.bytestart.co.uk/content/news/1_12/uk-business-letting-ideas.shtml

Pay per Click – The Best System to Profit Internet Ads

The system of sponsored links by keywords is the most used on the Internet by either big either small companies. This article provides an overview of the Pay-per-click process.

http://www.bytestart.co.uk/content/promotion/pay-per-click-the-best-sy.shtml

EU "Sun Directive" branded absurd by pressure group

A proposed EU directive which will force bosses to make daily risk assessments on the strength of the sun, is being branded unworkable and absurd by a leading business pressure group.

http://www.bytestart.co.uk/content/news/1_12/eu-sun-directive-branded-.shtml

British Businesses could lose Intellectual Property Rights

More than 70% of British businesses risk losing their intellectual property rights when signing deals with other businesses, according to a new survey from the Patent Office.

http://www.bytestart.co.uk/content/20/20_1/british-businesses-could-.shtml

Small business survey reveals sectoral and regional growth disparity

The biggest quarterly report of UK small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has revealed a striking variation in expectations of sales growth in 2005.

http://www.bytestart.co.uk/content/news/1_12/small-business-survey-rev-2.shtml

Never Run Out of Cash

Next month's edition of Reader's Digest contains a good article entitled "Extra Cash Now" - Your hobby + computer = money.

http://www.bytestart.co.uk/content/news/1_12/never-run-out-of-cash.shtml

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All the best,

The Bytestart Team