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Essential Business Growth Principles
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You may remember our Essential Business Growth Principles from a few months ago, when they were part of an email series. If you missed any, or just want to re-read them, they are now on the website! Just click here to access them.
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 Top Tax Tip
If you would like more Tax Tips, why not download our specially designed Tax Kits?
Or, to get more specific advice, use our free Ask an Accountant service!
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Questions that Change Your Mind
'Right now a moment of time is fleeting by!' (Paul Cezanne) Are you driven by performance - or something better?
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Andrew Sercombe
andrew@powerchange.com
Powerchange - fresh thinking.
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Quote Of The Week
Action is the real measure of intelligence.
Napoleon Hill
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Scan This!
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These are the new QR codes that are becoming more and more popular across the UK. Tips of the week - put one on your business card, all people have to do is scan it (through a QR code scanner on their phone), and they get redirected to your website straight away!
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Joke of the Week
An economist is someone who gets rich explaining to others why they are poor.
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Free Useful Business Forms
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We have a new resource on our website, where you can get all the forms you need for dealing with the Taxman and Inland Revenue.
To have a look, click here.
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Greetings!  The answer for the last Brainteaser competition (A Riddle) was: HABIT. And the winner is... Matthew Page, from Scannex - Congratulations Matthew! Last week's BrainTeaser was just for fun. This week's BrainTeaser is being sponsored by Get Me In Google. If you would like to know more about sponsoring our BrainTeaser, please click here. |
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BrainTeaser - Crazy Cooking Catastrophes
Welcome to Crazy Cooking Catastrophes.
Today our host has decided to mix up an Antipasto Creature Feature...
Please follow these instructions carefully to unscramble [pun totally intended] the answer.
Cooking Tips:
Words like add, combine, stir in, sprinkle, garnish etc mean to add those letters to the mix.
Words like remove, drain, none left over, give, etc. mean to remove those letters from the mix.
In a bowl, combine one cup of MARMALADE with one tablespoon of OIL.
Kick MAE out of the kitchen [she's dangerous with a whisk] then whip until frothy.
What creature will be in the bowl?
Click here to email us the answer!
This week's BrainTeaser is being sponsored by Get Me In Google.. If you would like to know more about the benefits of sponsoring our BrainTeaser, click here.
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Pay Staff Tax Free - Staff Suggestion Scheme
The Staff Suggestion Scheme is very simple to operate, and is specifically allowed, as well as provided for, in the tax legislation. It works as follows:
· Conditions apply, but employees can be rewarded for making suggestions that relates to your business activities, and the payments to that employee can be made without any tax or NI being payable! If that's not good enough, you even get tax relief on the payments through your accounts, just as you do with paying normal salaries/wages.
To read the rest of this article, please click here.
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Our Business Directory is now Live!
Now that we've hit 10 businesses on our business directory, we've decided to publish it!
If you don't already know, we are trying to create something a bit different to business directories such as Yell and others. What we want to do is to actually drive traffic to the pages, instead of just leaving them there to go stale.
So, we will be using various different methods, such as SEO, Social Media (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn & Blogging) and others, to try and get some people viewing the listings in the business directory, and drum up some business for our Clients!
Go and have a look, especially if you are a Keepers Client, as there are some special offers just for Clients of Keepers.
Click here to have a look at our Business Directory!
If you are one of our Clients, and you would like to be included in our business directory, please click here to register your interest.
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Casual Workers regularly cause PAYE headache, with HMRC regularly raising questions regarding your casual workers, and the payment (or non-payment!) of them through the PAYE system.
A word of warning - if you get this wrong, it can cost you and your
business a lot in the way of arrears of PAYE going back sometimes as far as 6 years, not forgetting the added interest and penalties!
To read the rest of this article, please click here.
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Comedy Zone - Maintaining a 'healthy' level of insanity
1) At lunch time, sit in your parked car with sunglasses on and point a hair dryer at passing cars. See if they slow down.
2) Page yourself over the intercom. Don't disguise your voice.
3) Insist that your e mail address is:
Xena-goddess-of-fire@companyname.com or elvis-the-King@companyname.com.
4) Every time someone asks you to do something, ask if they want fries with that.
5) Encourage your colleagues to join you in a little synchronised chair dancing.
6) Put your garbage can on your desk and label it "IN."
7) Develop an unnatural fear of staplers.
8) Put decaf in the coffee maker for 3 weeks. Once everyone has gotten over their caffeine addictions, switch to espresso.
9) In the memo field of all your checks, write 'for sexual favors.'
10) Reply to everything someone says with, "That's what you think."
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