Web Traffic Monitoring Service

Would you like to know where your customers come from: what part of country, where they heard about your business, and most of all what areas are cutomers looking on your website?

At Davenports we can monitor the following:

• How many visits a day you have coming to your website
• Where your customers are from in the country
• How long they spend on your site
• What are your most popular pages on your website
• Monitor links from other websites that you have linked to
• Monitor if your advertising cost is working with Yell, Facebook or any other organization
• and much more…

Why not find out more about how to make your website work for you, and then contact us today for a monthly breakdown of your website.

Website Critique Service

Get the best out of your website. Through our comprehensive range of reports and marketing strategy services, we will provide you with the opportunity to gain an objective insight into where your website is failing, establish and prioritise what can be done to improve your site, increase visibility on line and in turn increase your return on investment.

Does your company need a website evaluation? Here’s how to tell -

• Is your website performing well in the search engines?
• Does your website meet the basic standard?
• Does your website conform to the Disability Discrimination Act?
• Does your website give you a return on investment?

If you have answered no to any of the above, then your website needs some maintenance and updating to help it achieve optimum performance for your company.

Visit our web section, or contact us today for more information.

Prince’s Trust Testimonial

Simon Fulford - Regional Director

“Dear Jason & Davenports Staff: What a fantastic, informative and easy to use website offering professional services. We are proud to have given you that initial startup support and glad that even now we continue to work together - this time you supporting us to help even more young people into education, training and work.”

Case Study: Arden Automotive Limited

Arden Automotive is a busy car repair and MOT service. They use Davenports to simplify the printing and delivery of their business cards, allowing them to focus on their business.

Testimonial from Arden Automotive

“We have used Davenports for the printing of our business cards. They have given us very prompt service and turnaround is very good, making up for our lack of planning! The quality of the double sided cards is very professional.” - John Pick, Director

Arden Automotive approached Davenports with two separate business card jobs. Although the customer already had artwork in place, Davenports retouched the artwork to improve the final print quality.

Davenports produced two sets of 1,000 business cards printed full colour both sides onto 400gsm matt card, then matt laminated both sides and delivered the cards to the customer.

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Increase in Stamp Duty Threshold

From the 3rd September 2008 the zero rate threshold for Stamp Duty will be increased temporarily on residential property to include property purchase up to £175,000.

This will apply to transactions involving the purchase of a major interest in land which:

• has an effective date on or after 3 September 2008 but before 3 September 2009; and
• consist entirely of residential property.

The exemption must be claimed using Form SDLT1.

Statutory Instrument 2008/2338 and 2008/2339

If you require any advice regarding property purchases we recommend Blake Lapthorn.

Helping SMEs through the Credit Crunch

The hardest job for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), particularly in the current economic climate, is managing their cash flow.

Davenports now offer an invoicing service to all their clients, allowing their clients to concentrate on bringing in the money, whilst Davenports focus on getting the invoices out.

The service is not as expensive as you might first have thought, for a small flat fee per invoice Davenports will raise the invoice and either post it out or email it direct to the client’s customer.  The fee also includes the invoice being entered directly into the client’s accounts, preventing the need for double entry and associated bookkeeping fees.

For more about Davenports services or how they can assist you during the credit crunch why not contact us today.

Collect Money Owed to You!

Isn’t it most annoying when you’ve worked hard for a business or individual and given them your best, but they have failed to pay?

We can take that burden away from you and ensure that you get paid. Read more about our credit control service, and then fill in our simple form to see how we can help to collect money due to you. Davenports perform credit control services as a regular task for businesses of all sizes. You just need to consider whether having a stronger cash flow would help your business move forward.

Our new debt collection management form will allow you to enter details of outstanding money owed, upload the invoices and provide more information about the debt.

After receiving your information, we’ll be in touch to discuss your individual circumstances and give you an idea of our fees.

Try it out today!

Prince’s Trust: 10K and 4K Family Fun Run

Youth charity The Prince’s Trust helps change young lives in the UK. It gives practical and financial support, developing skills such as confidence and motivation. It works with 14-30 year olds who have struggled at school, have been in care, are long-term unemployed or have been in trouble with the law.

During the past thirty two years, the organisation has helped over half a million young people and last year supported 3,200 in the South East alone.

The Prince’s Trust is Davenport’s Nominated Charity for 2007 - 2008, and on Sunday 12th October, the fourth Prince’s Trust 10K and 4K Family Fun Run will start at LEGOLAND, Windsor. The 4K Family Fun Run will take place within LEGOLAND’s Miniland area, where children will run or walk past new London model landmarks such as Canary Wharf and the Gherkin. The 10K run will be through the stunning ancient Crown Estate forests of Highstanding Hill Woods, which is not normally accessible to the public. The event in 2006 was a great success and this year, with ChampionChip timing, they intend to make this even better still!

If you are interested in entering, please visit www.princes-trust.org.uk/10k and help them change the lives of even more young people across the South East.

‘Davenport Recommends’ Corporate and Personal Services

During our business life, our firm has come across invaluable services to help us grow, as well as gain legal and corporate knowledge. We would like to share this information with you and help you to make the right choices in personal and business matters.

When using any of our services, not only do you become part of our company, you become part of the Davenport Family.

Davenports is very different from any other business that you may have dealt with before. Not only do we try to look after your accounting, web or print and design needs, if any of our current customers need your services, we will promote you within our Davenport Family.

For example, we have many tradespeople and other professionals who are clients of Davenports. And, if during discussion with you, we find that you’re in need of, for example, an electrician, a plumber or a courier, we are expertly placed to recommend the right service for you.

We would like to share those links with you in the hope that they may be helpful to your business.

View our Useful Links page for more information.

We have also created a set of simple forms that you can fill out that will put you in touch with legal and professional services that we have personally experienced and are proud to recommend. These include:

• Lloyds TSB business banking for Berkshire and Oxfordshire
• Lloyds TSB business banking in London
• Castle Leasing - vehicle hire
• Blake Lapthorn - legal services

As you would expect from Davenports, all these forms are encrypted for your security.

Take care, from The Davenport Directors and Team.

Use of Premises

For many self-employed people the home has a dual role.  It is where you live and also where you carry on some or all of your business. Even if you carry on most of your business elsewhere, you are still entitled to a claim a taxable deduction for the part of the house that is solely used for business purposes.

Many of the bills for household expenses cover both business and private use. For example, you’ll probably get only one electricity bill, but will use it both privately and for business.  A single bill does not mean that the whole of the expense is disallowable for tax.  Part of the expense will be related to your business and therefore, tax deductible.

Not all expenses are allowable, such as business entertaining, and what is allowable depends on the particular facts.  These facts will include the extent and nature of the business activities undertaken in the home.

Costs
Some costs relate to the whole house, and even if there is no business use, will have to be paid; these include Council Tax, mortgage interest, insurance, water rates, general repairs and rent.  These are know as fixed costs, there will also be some running costs and they will include cleaning, heat and light, metered water, telephone and broadband.  The total bill for these running costs may vary with the amount of business use.

Davenports will help to ensure you pay the correct amount of tax and claim for what you are entitled to, for more information about tax returns and business accounts please contact us.

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