Pass through London Bridge mainline station during any evening rush hour and you’ll see someone from one of the shops there trying to get you to take a free sample of their food. Not once have I ever seen anyone stop and take anything.
It’s hardly surprising as everyone is rushing to get to a seat [...]

I read with interest a post on Emily Hill’s blog about Dell claiming to have made £6.5m from their Twitter activity. Well done. Dell! Twitter is very useful as a sales channel/tool, I’ve previously written about how it’s been really useful to me in growing KashFlow.
Whilst Dell seem to be doing very well from Twitter [...]

Speak to any accountant who works with small businesses and they’ll tell you HMRC are a nightmare to deal with. Their systems, both technical and procedural, just aren’t fit for purpose
The accounting forum on UKBF is full of war stories. A company I’m involved with (not KashFlow) is owed around £4.5k as a tax rebate. So [...]

The first thing I do when I first log in to Windows XP is right click the “Start” button go to Properties and set it to Classic mode. It’s what I like, it’s what I’m used to.
So when I recently had a play with Windows 7 it was the first thing I looked for. The [...]

There are a number of changes to VAT on 1st Jan 2010. This is how we’ll be helping you to easily deal with them with the minimum of effort and fuss
Change to Standard Rate of VAT
The standard rate of VAT will change from 15% to 17.5%. If you’re VAT registered then a message should be showing on your [...]

If you’re a watcher of the accounting software market, you can’t have missed the fact that Microsoft withdrew their accounting product recently. The very short notice on the withdrawal of the software, along with the payroll element being turned off  left lots of customers stranded. The customer base was sold to Mamut who don’t have [...]

On Monday I posted a blog entry with the title SEO is no substitute for a marketing plan.
It attracted quite a few interesting comments, but I felt one of the comments deserved to be highlighted.
The below was posted by Ian Hendry from WeCanDo.BIZ.
It’s interesting to note that if you ask someone in the generation below [...]

After the Global Entrepreneurship Week launch event last Monday I went along to the IoD for the final of The Pitch. Think Dragons Den without the TV cameras.
It was an entertaining afternoon with 6 businesses pitching for a prize package worth £50,000, Anthony Lau, Founder of Cyclehoop was crowned the winner.
One thing that did worry me [...]

Yesterday was the first day of Global Entreprenurship Week - a global initiative to promote entrepreneurship.
We’re involved in a  couple of ways.
Firstly I’m a Young Ambassador (emphasis on the “young” please!) for Enterprise UK, the government-funded agency at the center of it all.
Secondly, we’ve donated £200k of accounting software to them to provide to startup businesses around [...]

Today we have released integration with web-based invoicing application, FreshBooks.
By connecting FreshBooks to your KashFlow account you can automate the copying across of invoices and customers from your FreshBooks account to your KashFlow account. If the FreshBooks invoice is paid this will also be copied across or if the invoice is paid at a later [...]