Bytestart Small Business Newsletter #2

Welcome to the second edition of our small business newsletter - published around every fortnight. Bytestart is the online small business portal, providing news and features on everything from starting up, web design & promotion to taxation and credit control tips.

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1. Starting up and running an ebay business - 3 Part Guide
2. Tips to minimise small business tax return headaches next year
3. IR35 - Inland Revenue Documentation & Advice
4. Top 10 tips for choosing a business domain name
5. Public Liability Insurance - an overview
6. Employers' liability insurance changes for small companies
7. Fastest UK Broadband ISP's for January 2005
8. Taxation the key to the small business vote
9. Google Ban - How not to get banned by Google!
10. External linking - Why linking out is good for your small business website
11. Report show strength of female-led small businesses
12. Self Assessment: Seven easy steps to completing your Tax Return
13. Mortgage Calculator - Personal and Commercial Quotes
14. IR35 - FSB calls for business tax overhaul
15. Search Engine Optimisation - SEO Glossary

Starting up and running an ebay business - 3 Part Guide
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If you have a product-based business, or are thinking of starting one - ebay provides a very useful method of reaching a massive customer base. Our three part guide covers an introduction, selling on ebay UK and selling tips.

http://www.bytestart.co.uk/content/24/24_1/starting-ebay-uk-1.shtml

Tips to minimise small business tax return headaches next year
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Monday 14th February 2005 sees the end of the two-week extension given to small business owners to file their tax returns, introduced after the collapse of the Inland Revenue website in January 2005. Following this year 's deadline confusion, cash flow specialist Bibby Financial Services is urging the Government to review the way in which small firms are required to make tax payments.

http://www.bytestart.co.uk/content/taxlegal/9_6/tips-to-minimise-small-bu.shtml

IR35 - Inland Revenue Documentation & Advice
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IR35 first reared its head via an Inland Revenue press release in 1999 entitled: ‘IR35: Countering Avoidance in the Provision of Personal Services". Since then, the Revenue has published a sizeable number of guides and other documents on its website.

http://www.bytestart.co.uk/content/taxlegal/9_8/ir35-inland-revenue-docum.shtml

Top 10 tips for choosing a business domain name
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Keep your domain name as short as possible and simple - it needs to be memorable, and preferably not contain hyphens. This and nine other tips for choosing an enduring and memorable domain name for your business.

http://www.bytestart.co.uk/content/15/15_1/top-10-tips-for-choosing-domain-name.shtml

Public Liability Insurance - an overview
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Public liability is an essential cover that all businesses need, cover is relatively cheap and will cover you in the event that you are pursued by a third party.

http://www.bytestart.co.uk/content/17/public-liability-insuranc.shtml

Employers' liability insurance changes for small companies
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>From 28th February employers' liability (EL) insurance will no longer be compulsory for businesses made up of just one person - the owner.

http://www.bytestart.co.uk/content/17/17_1/changes-to-employers-liab.shtml

Fastest UK Broadband ISP's for January 2005
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Ever wondered how your broadband supplier matches up to the competition? An excellent resource for all things broadband, ADSLGuide.org.uk has published its latest findings, based on "speed tests" conducted within its own site.

http://www.bytestart.co.uk/content/15/15_3/fastest-uk-broadband-isps.shtml

Taxation the key to the small business vote
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Last week, The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) unveiled its six key principles for a general election year telling candidates that a commitment to fairer and simpler taxes could be the key to millions of votes.

http://www.bytestart.co.uk/content/news/1_12/taxation-the-key-to-the-s.shtml

Google Ban - How not to get banned by Google!
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Given that Google now provides over 50% of all Internet search traffic, the last possible thing any small business site owner would want is to be banned from the Google index!

http://www.bytestart.co.uk/content/promotion/7_7/google-ban-how-not-to-get.shtml

External linking - Why linking out is good for your small business website
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Don't be afraid to link out. Your site visitors will appreciate you introducing them to useful websites, you can increase your credibility and you can achieve a higher search engine ranking.

http://www.bytestart.co.uk/content/22/22_1/external-linking-why-link.shtml

Report show strength of female-led small businesses
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A major quarterly report of nearly 12,000 small to medium sized businesses reveals the strength of female led firms.

http://www.bytestart.co.uk/content/news/1_12/report-show-strength-of-f.shtml

Self Assessment: Seven easy steps to completing your Tax Return
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Information from the Inland Revenue site provides an easy step-by-step guide to completing and sending in your self assessment tax return each year.

http://www.bytestart.co.uk/content/taxlegal/self-assessment-seven-eas.shtml

Mortgage Calculator - Personal and Commercial Quotes
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Our new mortgage calculator allows our visitors website to work out what size commercial mortgage they could afford and what a typical monthly payment might be.

http://www.bytestart.co.uk/content/money/8_9/mortgage-calculator.shtml

IR35 - FSB calls for business tax overhaul
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A commitment to overhaul the tax system for small businesses, including the abolition of IR35, should be a priority for politicians in the run-up to the next election, according to the FSB.

http://www.bytestart.co.uk/content/taxlegal/9_8/ir35-fsb-calls.shtml

Search Engine Optimisation - SEO Glossary
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Our SEO Glossary could in theory contain 1,000 terms. We've started with the most important from a search engine optimisation viewpoint and will add more on a regular basis.

http://www.bytestart.co.uk/content/promotion/7_8/search-engine-optimisation-glossary.shtml

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All the best,

The Bytestart Team