PRIME Initiative

Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 5:58 PM

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T h e O l d e r p r e n e u r
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News for older entrepreneurs from The PRIME Initiative

Seasons Greetings. Welcome to PRIME Business Club’s
January 2010 newsletter. You are receiving this entirely
free because you contacted PRIME, the charity set up by
Prince Charles, about starting your own business.

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In this issue
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1. Create-your-own-web-site in the New Year

2. VAT is going up - try our calculator

3. Read older entrepreneur success stories

4. Loads of new business, accounting and tax info

5. Newsletter controls

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1. Create-your-own-web-site in the New Year
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The New Year is a great time to try something new.
So if you have not got a website yet, now is a good time
to start thinking about it.

PRIME has teamed up with UK web-site specialist Mr Site
to offer a discount of up to 40 per cent on the
company’s simple all-in-one web-site creation
packages.

Read on…

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2. VAT is going up - try our new calculator
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With the VAT rate going up to 17.5 per cent if your
business is VAT registered you will need to change your
published prices.

The government has announced that businesses have four
weeks to amend their shelf and product labels following
the reversion to the 17.5 per cent standard rate of VAT
at midnight on 31 December 2009.

Try our free online calculator.
Read on…

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3. Read older entrepreneur success stories
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We have put up new case studies on the PRIME website
where you can read about the experiences of other
olderpreneurs who have gone ahead and started a
business.

Read on…

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4. Loads of new business, accounting and tax info
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We have completed adding over 700 pages of detailed
information especially written by the accounting and tax
experts at Practice Web. This is all free at the PRIME
Business Club website.

Among these are:

The Business start-up area

The Tax system for the self-employed

Understand what your customers want

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5. Newsletter controls
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