Welcome to our dedicated small business advice newsletter. |
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This is the first edition of our newsletter for small businesses which we will issue each month.
It will focus on news, tips and advice for small & medium sized businesses, especially relating to the use of Information & Communications Technology.
However, we will also include topical updates on regulations and other matters affecting small businesses.
Please contact us if you have any suggestions for topics in future issues. |
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 Security Product Discounts
We are an Authorised Reseller for the GFi range of
security products. These products are suitable for businesses running networks with from 2 to 1,000 users or more. The email security and spam filtering products are especially appropriate for small businesses.
To use these products you need to be running a mail server on your network, such as Microsoft's Small Business Server,
Up to 50% discounts are available for GFi MailSecurity email security products which protect against email viruses, exploits & Trojans .
Up to 25% discounts are available for GFi MailEssentials spam filtering products.
These offers are only valid until the end of January and only apply to licences for 100 seats or less.
more details....
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Product Recommendations
We like to recommend products that we have personal experience with. This month we would like to recommend the following wireless networking products and broadband routers designed for small businesses. We use these products ourselves -
 3Com & ZyXEL
Both suppliers make a great range of wireless networking products and broadband routers suitable for small businesses.
3Com in particular make the excellent OfficeConnect range which we use extensively ourselves in our office network. We find their products are reliable and perform well.
We use a ZyXEL Prestige ADSL2 Voice-over-IP broadband router to handle all of our Internet access and our office telephone service, so our whole business depends on it performing well and reliably.
Both these suppliers cater for corporations and industry and their small business products benefit from performing better and being more secure than some of their cheaper mass market rivals which are targeted at the domestic market.
We feature some of these products in our online catalogue, but you will be referred to our partner Misco to make an actual purchase.
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QuickBooks Warning
Intuit has issued a warning for QuickBooks users. A bug inadvertently included in a QuickBooks update released in December, has caused documents and financial files to be deleted from PCs.
A fix has been released by Intuit, but users of the 2006 Mac edition should be especially wary since the bug can re-manifest itself when a PC is used in a public WiFi hotspot. Users are recommended to contact Intuit.
More details can be found here.
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Regulatory & Other Updates
Each month we will feature some of the recent regulatory updates or other important news affecting small businesses:
Capital Gains Tax Revision
Hot off the press is the news that the Government seems to have taken on board the advice following pressure from the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) and has revised its original proposals for reforming Capital Gains Tax.
The revised proposal would see a 10% rate of CGT on the first £1M of gain rather than a flat rate of 18%.
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Data Protection Guidance
New guidance that should help small businesses to understand their obligations under the Data Protection Act (DPA) has been produced by the Information Commissioner's Office.
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Data Protection Good Practice Note: Training checklist for small and
medium
sized organisations" is available at http:tinyurl.com/yt9npq
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Guidance on Employing Migrant Workers
The Health & Safety Executive (HSE) has issued guidelines for businesses that directly employ or use migrant workers.
"Topic Inspection Pack - Migrant Working" is available at
http://tinyurl.com/2moavg
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Storage of Flammable Liquids
The Health & Safety Executive (HSE) has issued advice to employers on their obligations when storing flammable liquids indoors.
"Storage of flammable liquids in process areas, workrooms, laboratories
and similar working areas" is available at http://tinyurl.com/3ay9zw
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Contact us if you would like any further information about the items in this newsletter.
Please let us have any feedback you might have, and also let us know if there are any articles you would like
to see covered in future issues by sending an
email to sales@wise.co.uk.
Best regards,
Tim Weaver |
