Bytestart Small Business Newsletter #9

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Latest Small Business Updates

1. Small Businesses in the UK - Key Statistics
2. Section 660 - Arctic System Judgement reveals broader implications for family businesses
3. Data Protection and your small business website
4. Business Link proves a massive success in its first year
5. Euro businesses slam working time directive 'opt out' curb
6. New service to help small businesses "get on the map"
7. Why small businesses fail
8. Most SME's find it hard to trust "home alone" staff
9. Businesses want resort yob crackdown
10. Top 10 Ways To Irritate Your Site Visitors
11. Business groups call for greater red tape reduction
12. Banks told to speed up electronic cash transfers
13. Bytestart reader hit by bank risk assessment charges
14. Top tips for companies planning an acquisition
15. New breed of entrepreneurs enters Parliament

Small Businesses in the UK - Key Statistics

A major report published by Warwick Business School reveals some fascinating statistics relating to the small business world in the UK.

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

Section 660 - Arctic System Judgement reveals broader implications for family businesses

Many family companies could be hurt by the unexpected removal of an exclusion from the settlement rules in the detailed decision of Arctic Systems High Court Section 660 case.

http://www.bytestart.co.uk/content/section660/25_1/section-660-arctic-system-3.shtml

Data Protection and your small business website

This article outlines what data protection actions a small business website should consider when processing "cookies", emails, and other client-related data.

http://www.bytestart.co.uk/content/20/20_2/data-protection-and-your-.shtml

Business Link proves a massive success in its first year

The Government small business website has had 8 million visits in its first year!

http://www.bytestart.co.uk/content/news/1_12/business-link-proves-a-ma.shtml

Euro businesses slam working time directive 'opt out' curb

UK and Polish business leaders have condemned the EU’s latest attempt to scrap the ‘opt-out’ of the Working Time Directive.

http://www.bytestart.co.uk/content/news/1_12/euro-businesses-slam-work.shtml

New service to help small businesses "get on the map"

A new service has been launched which provides route planning and mapping technology to help small businesses.

http://www.bytestart.co.uk/content/news/1_12/new-service-to-help-small.shtml

Why small businesses fail

Starting a business from scratch is not easy. In fact, more than half of all new ventures in Britain close within three years of opening - that's a scary thought... a decent article on the Motley Fool site this week.

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

Most SME's find it hard to trust "home alone" staff

New research, which questioned the attitudes of over 400 HR managers at SMEs across the UK, found that 44% of managers do not trust all staff to work from home effectively.

http://www.bytestart.co.uk/content/news/1_12/most-smes-find-it-hard-to.shtml

Businesses want resort yob crackdown

The FPB, which represents 25,000 small to medium-sized firms across the UK, 10 per cent of which are in a coastal town, said businesses should work with police forces to identify yob hot spots where dispersal orders could be enforced.

http://www.bytestart.co.uk/content/news/1_12/businesses-want-resort-yo.shtml

Top 10 Ways To Irritate Your Site Visitors

If you are designing or upgrading your small business website, here are some of the key ways to ensure that visitors to your website never come back!

http://www.bytestart.co.uk/content/22/22_1/top-10-ways-to-irritate-y.shtml

Business groups call for greater red tape reduction

Welcoming the Chancellor's intentions to cut business red tape, business groups have called for a complete culture change across Whitehall, saying that an across-the-board attack on red tape was needed.

http://www.bytestart.co.uk/content/news/1_12/business-groups-call-for-.shtml

Banks told to speed up electronic cash transfers

The Office of Fair Trading has told the major banks to speed up the time it takes to process electronic cash transfers made via the phone and Internet.

http://www.bytestart.co.uk/content/news/1_12/banks-toldto-speed-up-el.shtml

Bytestart reader hit by bank risk assessment charges

We received an email from the director of a small company who feels he has been penalised with higher bank risk charges, when many much larger companies are treated very differently by the major high street banks.

http://www.bytestart.co.uk/content/news/1_12/bytestart-reader-hit-by-b.shtml

Top tips for companies planning an acquisition

Acquiring another company is one of the most common and effective ways to grow a business – but first-time buyers will need a helping hand These ten tips should help.

http://www.bytestart.co.uk/content/16/16_1/top-tips-for-companies-pl.shtml

New breed of entrepreneurs enters Parliament

Over a quarter of the new MPs elected to the House of Commons have run their own business according to the FSB.

http://www.bytestart.co.uk/content/news/1_12/new-breed-of-entrepreneur.shtml

All the best,

The Bytestart Team