By Marc Seery (Sage One Product Marketing Manager). We recently asked Gareth Molyneux (The Stitcher’s Garden), a Sage One Cashbook customer, ‘What advice would you give to someone starting out in business?’ and his response was…Network, network, network! Gareth recognises the benefits of networking for his business but what are they and could any business benefit from…

On Thursday and Friday we attended The Business Show @ ExCel London – the UK’s biggest exhibition for start-ups and the people who support them. As well as helping hundreds of people at our stand, we filmed some great interviews with motivational speaker Brad Burton (MD of 4Networking) and angel investor Bill Morrow (Angels Den). Click on…

By Bob Earnshaw, BusinessPlus (Letchworth) Ltd. We’ve been Sage Business Partners or resellers as we were known in the past, since 1988. That part of the business is basically unchanged for us, although the software has moved on considerably. We find out what businesses need, recommend a Sage software solution, supply and install it. The…

What is VAT? Who needs to register for it? And what do VAT-registered businesses have to do? VAT (Value Added Tax) is a tax which is added to the price of goods or services provided by ‘VAT-registered businesses’ in the UK. VAT is then charged when a VAT-registered business sells to another business or to…

On Monday (3rd June 2013) we welcomed another international Sage One solution – la France, 10 points! (See www.sageone.fr). If you’ve ever driven round the peripherique in Paris you may have seen the two huge Sage signs on top of our offices there. Sage France has over 600,000 start-up, small business and mid-market level customers.…

At the end of last year we launched a Sage One app on the Google Apps Marketplace which enables you to login to Sage One Accounts or Sage One Payroll using your Google Apps for Business account. A number of you have recently called our Customer Support Team to ask how to link the two together. Well, if you are an existing…

LedgerLive is a new service from Funding Options which I can best describe as credit control with a twist. Essentially, when you link Sage One Accounts with your LedgerLive account, LedgerLive will give you a risk analysis report of everyone who owes you money right now, even showing you your customer’s credit score. How does it…

We encountered some technical issues this morning (Monday 3rd June) at around 8.30am and as a precaution decided to take Sage One offline until they were fixed. Unfortunately this meant Sage One was unavailable from this time until just before 8.30pm. Taking Sage One offline isn’t something we do lightly but we decided to take this action to…

SafeguardMy is a great little service from the guys at Tick7 which allows you to take scheduled backups of all your Sage One Accounts data. The service comes at two price points – £4 a month for weekly backups and £2 a month for monthly backups. To use the service, simply sign up to the backup frequency…

Newcastle-based Stuart Varrall has won the 2013 Thinking Digital Startup Competition with the ‘BubbleScope’ – a smartphone accessory which enables users to take instant, 360o photos and videos that can be shared via the BubblePix.com media platform (think YouTube for 360o). BubblePix was one of 10 early stage tech startups (in their first 12 months of trading) shortlisted for the Sage…