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Creating a business page on Facebook
Having recently gone through the process of creating Facebook.com/officeanswers I thought I would write it up in case it helps our virtual office customers and others. The starting point assumes you already have a personal page on Facebook already because you will use this to be the administrator of your business page. I ran into [...]
Updating Google Places
I have neglected our Google Places entry and it needed updating. This used to be called Google Local and it basically gives you a marker on the Google map when searching for something at a given location. We have had this set up for our Manchester business address but it was not linked to the [...]
Upgrading to Sage Accounts 2012
I’ve been upgrading our accounts system from an older version of Sage Line 50 to Sage Accounts 2012. Overall it has been quite a smooth process but there were a couple of problems I came across which are described below with the way we got around them. There have n’t been many things in the [...]
New Year Resolution – start your business
The New Year is normally busy for us as we get enquiries from people who have made a New Year Resolution to start their own business. What an excellent objective for the year. Some are ready to proceed, others are checking prices as part of working out their costs, and they are all interesting conversations [...]
Snow affecting business levels
Friday 3rd December and deep snow across most of the country. Just been looking at call volumes through our telephone answering service and yesterday’s calls were 22% down compared to Thursday last week. Volumes are normally fairly level so that is a big drop. Let’s hope the thaw comes soon and business gets back to [...]