Well Holden Associates have now been in business for a little over 5 years. It was March 2004 when Holden Associates launched itself on the world. A lot has changed in the last 5 years, we have grown from a home run business to one that has offices. We have gone from helping local clients [...]
In a recession it is sometimes hard to keep motivated, especially when the media seem so intent on covering the doom and gloom stories and not the successes, so I thought this posting would be of benefit. I cannot claim these as mine, and to read the full details please go visit the Get Entrepreneurial [...]
I always avoid being political on my blog, but I am often asked ‘how are other clients doing, how long will the recession last, how is the economy doing do you think?’. Well as we know help has to come from the Government if small business is going to weather the storm, and for those [...]
Today we are pleased to announce FREE websites for all our small business, contractors & home business clients. In a time when the economy is challenging, we want to help all our clients by making sure they are on the web and have a website, so they can be found online and hopefully generate new [...]
Jamie Evans from Southport has launched an online fashion exchange website where you can get your clothes for free. This is a great idea, although the credit crunch and recession are taking hold there is still entrepreneurial talent out there coming up with ways to market, it’s always nice when they are local entrepreneurs. Have [...]
The Pre-Budget Report 2008 brought both good and bad news regarding empty property rates. The good news is that properties with a rateable value below £15,000 are exempt from paying business rates. The bad news is that, the empty property levy tax remains in place, affecting owners of vacant properties that have a rateable value [...]
In small business we still make our business decisions based on whether we like the people we do business with. Over two years ago when I was looking at the various online bookkeeping offerings I came across WinWeb, and Stefan, from an existing client who had mentioned winweb in passing. It was after a long [...]
This is great news, Viking Direct (part of Office Depot) have teamed up with WinWeb to give all their customers Free use of Online Office, well okay not totally free, you have to spend a one off £30 with Viking, which is not hard to do. At Holden Associates we have provided WinWeb to our [...]
There would appear to be some confusion that winweb.com (our chosen online solution partner) and winwebsecurity.com (please do not visit this website) are the same, they are not. This is taken from the blog of Stefan Töpfer the CEO of winweb, our online solutions partner. As I mentioned in an earlier post about WinWeb and [...]
New research carried out by The Forum of Private Business in the UK revealed that small firms trust their accountants more than their bank managers when it comes to seeking financial advice, with the majority admitting to seeking such advice fewer than four times per year. Well this is not really news to me, but [...]
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