Business News & Updates
- 17th February 2020
Often, business find it difficult to know what type of website their business should get. After all, there are so many options available nowadays! Just think; you could get a single-page or multi-page website, one with image headers or not, where do you even begin?
- 2nd February 2020
Which printed products are you considering purchasing for your business? It can be hard to know where to start when building a new brand but it’s not impossible! The main thing is to do research into what others in your industry purchase. Once you have an idea on that, every product you buy is an asset!
- 24th January 2020
The most important aspect of a business isn’t simply the amount of money it makes! Cashflow is obviously key to survival and your clients need to buy your services, and a business needs to make a profit – but there are many other factors in how the business is perceived that can help you succeed and be sustainable!
- 21st January 2020
Under the old regime, you would only pay income tax on your net rental income, or profits. In other words, you'd first deduct the interest from the mortgage on your rental property, as well as any other expenses incurred throughout the year.
- 8th November 2019
Advertising is everything in a business’s survival nowadays. Whether that’s pop-up adverts on Google pages or a newsletter sent out to all of your clients, you would be amazed at the benefits that e-marketing can bring. So why wait? Find out how we can help advertise your business today!
- 25th October 2019
Business Reviews are the key to a business expanding and gaining more clients. When your business is trusted, people will be more likely to use your services over other businesses like yours. Can you afford to miss out on more customers?
- 24th June 2019
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The much talked about MTD went live on 1 April 2019. In case you have been living in a bubble and don’t know what MTD stands for, it’s Making Tax Digital. This is an HMRC initiative to digitalise record keeping and mandate the submission of information to them through digitally enabled software/links. Initially this affects the submission of VAT returns.
Bedrock Furniture, our local Independent Furniture Specialist,moved premises last March and is now well established in its fabulous new showroom. The Family run business has become a prominent feature of the Taunton and Bridgwater business community since it was established 2001 and is now housed its new premises at 93 - 97 Bath Road, Bridgewater. Full contact and sat nav info can be located at:
GDPR is the EU General Data Protection Regulation which comes into effect from 25th May 2018. It means that if your business uses email marketing, sends direct mail or makes sales calls. The law is changing what you can & can’t do. This even includes tracking tools such as Google Analytics!
The new law states that (among other things) if someone has given consent for you to collect data (newsletter sign ups, contact forms etc) you need to record when they gave you permission and you need to log exactly what they were shown when they opted in.