Just 24 hours (and a few minutes) to go until the VAT rate changes from 17.5% to 15%.
Make sure you have changed your website settings, ebay settings, bookkeeping settings, spreadsheet settings - even your calculator settings to reflect the new rate.
The new rate is 15%. When you are calculating the VAT amount in a [...]

VT Software have done it!!
VT Transaction + is now complete. I know it sounds unlikely but it was only this morning I was wondering about doing some more video tutorials now my recession report is finished and what happens - I get the upgrade available notice in my VT Transaction+ program and… [...]

I just wondered if anyone needed some clarification about actually when to change the rate of VAT they charge.
I know our beloved chancellor said it will apply from 1st December but…
There is an issue you must consider here when you are invoicing for the supply of goods and services.
If you supplied [...]

I am not going to re-iterate the provisions of the “Pre-Budget Report” as these are mainly widely known now.
But was the chancellor right to do what he has done?
Was it formal budget in all but name just so that this government can force these changes through without discussion and all party approval? The sceptic in [...]

A client, whom I shall call “Emma” here called round this morning and returned a copy of Paul Gorman’s book “How to out-sell, out market, out promote, out advertise everyone else you compete against before they even know what hit them” that I lent to her some months ago.
“I don’t see how most of the [...]

It is absolutely vital that you know who your Target Audience is.
Why? Because if you send out marketing materials to people that are not likely to need your products/services – you are wasting your time and valuable resources.
How do you know who your Target Audience is?
Your TA is simply the people that you would like [...]

Recessions, boom years, credit crunches… they are all a natural part of our lives. An integral part of the huge economy we are all a part of. You can’t have a boom time without a bust time. They follow each other like night follows day. Life constantly cycles. All the recent noise the experts [...]

This is a question that vexes most entrepreneurs.  We are all of a certain type of person, excellent with the talk and can mostly persuade an Eskimo to buy snow.  But when it comes to writing a sales letter, advert, brochure or some other marketing material, it all becomes too complicated and tiresome.
We say, “If [...]

I don’t mean winning at all costs!  I mean that in every business situation, and in every deal you do, you try your very best to make sure that everybody involved wins something of value.
If you are of the ilk that likes to extract maximum money from people as soon as possible and have no thought [...]

Thank you for all those who responded to my post about the best direction for the advert I have booked in a charitable booklet.
The person who first suggested the recession busting report was Rachael, although I have to confess I had already listed 24 hot tips to go in the report so it seems lots [...]