Bytestart Small Business Newsletter #6

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Latest Small Business Updates

1. Five Reasons why you need a Business Plan
2. Top Ten Tips for Writing a Business Plan
3. Ten marketing tips to help promote your small businesses
4. Starting An Ebay Businesses - Accounting and Tax Tips
5. Virtual Offices for Small Businesses
6. Top 10 tips for choosing a business domain name
7. Guide to Professional Indemnity Insurance
8. Trademarks, Patents, Copyright - Glossary and FAQ
9. Trade Marks and Domain Names - Legal Overiew
10. Setting up a Partnership
11. Top 10 Tips for Small Business Technology
12. How to avoid classic Business Plan mistakes
13. Business confidence improves but still some way to go
14. Small businesses see red but won’t vote Labour
15. SME's confident in hiring new staff
16. Dynamic start ups required for new Channel 4 show
17. UK Broadband cuts threaten price war
18. Search Engine Optimisation Firms - What to look out for
19. Business organisation calls for "yob" crackdown
20. Study highlights importance of business image to small businesses

Five Reasons why you need a Business Plan

The problems of not having an over-arching goal and plan for your business... Top five reasons a firm needs a business plan.

http://www.bytestart.co.uk/content/businessplans/30_1/five-reasons-you-need-a-b.shtml

Top Ten Tips for Writing a Business Plan

Writing a business plan can seem a daunting challenge. Here is a list of top ten tips for writing that winning business plan.

http://www.bytestart.co.uk/content/businessplans/30_1/top-ten-tips-for-writing-.shtml

Ten marketing tips to help promote your small businesses

Are you a small business or start up? Do you sometimes feel invisible? Here are ten low cost marketing ideas guaranteed to boost your profile.

http://www.bytestart.co.uk/content/16/16_1/ten-marketing-tips-to-hel.shtml

Starting An Ebay Businesses - Accounting and Tax Tips

Some excellent tax and accounting tips and ideas to bear in mind when setting up an ebay business.

http://www.bytestart.co.uk/content/24/24_3/starting-an-ebay-business.shtml

Virtual Offices for Small Businesses

An overview of virtual office providers, who offer mail forwarding, telephone answering and other services for small businesses and startups.

http://www.bytestart.co.uk/content/16/16_1/virtual-offices-for-small.shtml

Top 10 tips for choosing a business domain name

Tips for selecting your small business domain names - what to look out for, and how to protect your brand identity.

http://www.bytestart.co.uk/content/16/top-10-tips-for-choosing-domain-name.shtml

Guide to Professional Indemnity Insurance

An overview of professional indemnity insurance for small businesses and what you should look out for in a typical policy.

http://www.bytestart.co.uk/content/17/17_2/professional-indemnity-insurance.shtml

Trademarks, Patents, Copyright - Glossary and FAQ

An extensive glossary and introduction to trademarks, patents, copyright and other elements of trademark law such as "passing off". Includes the meaning of "©", "TM", "®" "SM" symbols.

http://www.bytestart.co.uk/content/20/20_2/trademarks-patents-copyri.shtml

Trade Marks and Domain Names - Legal Overiew

Each country or territory has its own trade mark system. This article provides an overview of how trade mark law applies to domain names.

http://www.bytestart.co.uk/content/20/20_2/trade-marks-and-domain-na.shtml

Setting up a Partnership

If two or more people wish to go into business together, but without going down the limited company route, a partnership offers a simple way to get started.

http://www.bytestart.co.uk/content/19/19_1/setting-up-a-partnership.shtml

Top 10 Tips for Small Business Technology

Key tips for small business IT - get recommendations before buying, keep it simple and make sure you only buy what you actually need!

http://www.bytestart.co.uk/content/16/16_1/top-10-tips-for-small-bus.shtml

How to avoid classic Business Plan mistakes

Often you may hear about what a business plan consists of. While including the necessary items is very important, you also want to make sure you don't commit any of the following common business plan mistakes:

http://www.bytestart.co.uk/content/businessplans/30_2/how-to-avoid-classic-busi.shtml

Business confidence improves but still some way to go

Business confidence is at its highest in nine months, with a balance of 10% more companies expecting UK economic growth to improve during the next year than expect it to worsen, according to a London Chamber of Commerce study.

http://www.bytestart.co.uk/content/news/1_12/business-confidence-impro.shtml

Small businesses see red but won’t vote Labour

40% of small businesses are not able to name a single benefit that Labour has brought their firms in the last four years, according to new research.

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

SME's confident in hiring new staff

Small to medium-sized businesses are more optimistic in their recruitment intentions than larger rivals, according to a recent Manpower survey.

http://www.bytestart.co.uk/content/news/1_12/smes-confident-in-hiring-.shtml

Dynamic start ups required for new Channel 4 show

Ricochet, the producers of the successful Channel 4 series Risking It All are planning a new series which follows people as they set up a new business venture in the UK.

http://www.bytestart.co.uk/content/news/1_12/dynamic-start-ups-require.shtml

UK Broadband cuts threaten price war

A broadband price war is expected to break out after an Internet firm yesterday slashed the cost of its broadband home connection, reports Thisismoney.

http://www.bytestart.co.uk/content/15/15_3/uk-broadband-cuts-threate.shtml

Search Engine Optimisation Firms - What to look out for

Here are some tips to look out for when choosing a company to promote your site (if you can't or don't have the time to do it yourself that is!)

http://www.bytestart.co.uk/content/15/search-engine-optimisatio.shtml

Business organisation calls for "yob" crackdown

The FPB is calling for a crackdown on loutish behavior in British coastal towns to protect small business interests in the run up to the summer holiday period.

http://www.bytestart.co.uk/content/news/1_12/business-organisation-cal.shtml

Study highlights importance of business image to small businesses

New research shows that in spite of the rise in digital communications, the majority of SME's testify it is the attention to 'little things', such as letterhead and other corporate literature, which make a big difference to their customers.

http://www.bytestart.co.uk/content/news/1_12/study-highlights-importan.shtml

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All the best,

The Bytestart Team