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Just starting a business?

If so, then we've taken key items from our service range and formed some packages that will help you survive for the first few months, and give you the flexibility should you need to make changes.

Obviously these are suggested packs, to give you an idea of how our services can be fitted together for the benefit of a start-up business. If they don't fit, that's okay - all businessess are different (heaven knows - ours is certainly a good example of a non-standard one!) - so contact us and we'll get something that does fit you.

Also we've brought together a few good news sources ideal for the smaller business, so bookmark us and use it was a good place to start.

Don't forget - all our web-pages are printable - give it a go with this page and you'll get everything laid out in a readable way (yes - even the news feeds, and the links they point to).

Start-up pack A

For less than 5 employees, working from home(s) or small office(s). With no stationery, corporate identity. No professional email addressess, no company website.

Our suggested pack of services we offer are as follows:

  • Communications:
    • Free 0870 telephone number for incoming voice calls: can be pointed at any UK landline, in this pack we’ll point it at your...
    • Personal Assistant service: answers your calls to your 0870 number, they then transfer these calls to you (call screening) or take a message and email or SMS it to you. You can call them yourselves and dictate a letter, email or fax... even tell them to check your online diary. One-off set-up £30, 59ppm for incoming calls [see ‘Call Centre Services’]
    • If you don’t have a FAX and need one we provide an 0870 telephone number for incoming faxes, which are converted and sent to you via email [see ‘Fax2Email and Email2Fax’ for details, and consider extending this to include Email2Fax if you send faxes] - Cost £36 per annum for 0870 number Fax2Email service [options - 0845/0871/0207 - costs vary]
  • Offline:
    • Corporate Identity: our team comes up with a logo and style guide for your company, or tidies up the one you doodled on the back of that napkin. Cost £150 (1 hour initial meeting with client + 4 hours to establish design concepts + 2 hours to discuss, modify and come to decision with client - total of 7 hours) [click here for more info on our design team]
    • Stationery Pack: 1000 A4 Letterheads (115gsm Fedrigoni Splendorgel paper), 1000 Compliment Slips (same 115gsm paper), 500 Regular Business Cards (400gsm silk artboard), all full colour single sided. Cost £359 (4 hours for us to layout - £150, then £209 for actual print run) [click here for other paper or duplicates requirements]
  • Online:
    • Email accounts and hosting : up-to 10 email accounts with POP3 and Webmail access, and space for your website when it’s ready - Shared Server, the ‘Easy’ option [click here for more details] - Cost £100 per annum
    • Website-in-a-box : choose from a gallery of several hundred templates which we can customise as much or as little as you wish (depending on your budget), taking your Corporate Identity we already produced and content from yourself we produce a basic ‘credential’ website for your company - Cost £500 [cost does vary depending on the number of changes you wish to make, this is just an ‘average’ cost of a basic credentials site - click here for more info]
    • Search Engine Submission for your new Website - Cost £100 per annum [click here for more info, and contact us for more information on what exactly we submit and who we submit it to, more importantly - how that helps you]

Initial cost - £1275 (PA setup, Offline and Online services)

Annual cost (2nd year+) - £236 (hosting and search engine submission)

Variable cost - 59ppm for incoming calls (and other costs associated with using the PA service)

To request more information - call us on 0870 7 60 60 67 or email us at info@kollektive.com

E&OE. Prices correct at time of writing.

Start-up pack B

Much the same as Pack A but for start-ups that have probably more employees (one a receptionist) in an small-ish office. With a ‘hastily put up’ company website and some basic email. ‘A bit more professional’.

The suggested pack is pretty much like Pack A with some exceptions as follows:

  • Communications:
    • Free 0870 telephone number for incoming voice calls: can be pointed at any UK landline, in this pack we’ll point it at your...
    • Personal Assistant service: answers your calls to your 0870 number, they then transfer these calls to you (call screening) or take a message and email or SMS it to you. You can call them yourselves and dictate a letter, email or fax... even tell them to check your online diary. Use it to extend your receptionist so that incoming calls never go un-answered - with the Free 0870 we give you, set it to call around the office - 1st your receptionist, 2nd our PA service. Out of hours when your receptionist isn’t around our PA service is! One-off set-up £30, go for the 69p per call option to manage costs on high volumes [see ‘Call Centre Services’].
    • If you don’t have a FAX and need one we provide an 0870 telephone number for incoming faxes, which are converted and sent to you via email [see ‘Fax2Email and Email2Fax’ for details, and consider extending this to include Email2Fax if you send faxes] - Cost £36 per annum for 0870 number Fax2Email service [options - 0845/0871/0207 - costs vary]
  • Offline:
    • Corporate Identity: we’ll spend longer with you and give you several concepts before finallising your brand with you. Cost £250 (1 hour initial meeting with client + 7 hours to establish 3 design concepts + 3 hours to discuss, modify and come to decision with client - total of 11 hours) [click here for more info on our design team]
    • Stationery Pack Plus: 1000 A4 Letterheads (120gsm Diamond White Conqueror Stonemarque), 1000 Compliment Slips (same 120gsm paper), 1000 Printed Continuation Sheets (same 120gsm paper), 1000 Regular Business Cards (400gsm white artboard, both sides matt laminated), all full colour single sided. Cost £698 (8 hours for us to layout, and make modifications based on your requirements - £300, then £398 for actual printing) [click here for other paper or duplicates requirements]
  • Online:
    • Email accounts and hosting : up-to 255 email accounts with POP3 and Webmail access, and space for your website when it’s ready, Site Statistics monitored and delivered to your inbox or available online - Shared Server, the ‘Standard’ option [click here for more details] - Cost £180 per annum
    • Website-in-a-box : choose from a gallery of several hundred templates which we can customise as much or as little as you wish (depending on your budget), taking your Corporate Identity we already produced and content from yourself we produce a basic ‘credential’ website for your company. Assuming you are more demanding about how you want it to look than Pack A we’ll make sure we customise the templates a lot more to your needs, with a maximum of 10 pages of brochure style content - Cost £900 [cost does vary depending on the number of changes you wish to make, this is just an ‘average’ cost of a basic credentials site - click here for more info]
    • Search Engine Submission for your new Website - Cost £100 per annum [click here for more info, and contact us for more information on what exactly we submit and who we submit it to, more importantly - how that helps you]
    • Keyword Buying: we will give you a ‘Category G’ keyword buy [click here for the details], ‘Standard Level’ option by identifying suitable keywords based on your website. Cost £20 to setup initial advert (£15 for each additional advert), you pay for the success of your advert in terms of ‘Click Throughs’ to your website from the advert when it is displayed (so a variable cost depending on the number of ‘Click Throughs’ and the cost of the keywords - they run on a bidding system for keywords - minimum ‘Click Through’ cost is £0.04, and there is a credit limit). We’ll only monitor this for you on an ad-hoc basis so each request for information about how your advert is doing on a monthly basis will only cost you the amount of time it takes us to find that - about 15 minutes at £25 p/h) And the best bit - you can start and stop the advertising when ever you wish (and have budget for), so set it up and only use it when you want some traffic on your site.

Initial cost - £2214 (PA setup, Offline and Online services)

Annual cost (2nd year+) - £280 (hosting and search engine submission)

Variable cost - 69p per call for incoming calls (and other costs associated with using the PA service), Click Through cost for Keyword Buying is variable but you can budget and we do tell you what the costs involved are as far as we can.

To request more information - call us on 0870 7 60 60 67 or email us at info@kollektive.com

E&OE. Prices correct at time of writing.

Federation of Small Businesses - News

FSB National Press ReleasesLatest FSB Press Releases - For simple feed subscription, use IE7 or Firefox 2http://www.fsb.org.uk/Work experience under threat, warns FSBPaper rounds and work experience for school pupils are being threatened by complicated and expensive new checks on employers, the FSB has warned.http://www.fsb.org.uk/policy/news.asp?REC=4603http://www.fsb.org.uk/policy/news.asp?REC=4603Fri, 9 May 2008 09:09:09 GMTAdam Hart-Davis joins FSBs Keep Trade Local CampaignThe Federation of Small Businesses Keep Trade Local campaign today received the backing of the scientist, social historian and broadcaster Adam Hart-Davis.http://www.fsb.org.uk/policy/news.asp?REC=4599http://www.fsb.org.uk/policy/news.asp?REC=4599Thu, 8 May 2008 08:08:08 GMTGrocery sector inquiry is a failure, says FSBThe Federation of Small Businesses said that small, independent shops have been let down by the Competition Commission in its inquiry into the grocery sector.http://www.fsb.org.uk/policy/news.asp?REC=4595http://www.fsb.org.uk/policy/news.asp?REC=4595Wed, 30 Apr 2008 30:30:30 GMTFSB calls for town centre parking rethinkThe Federation of Small Businesses has called on local authorities to rethink town centre parking policies ahead of local elections in England and Wales in May.http://www.fsb.org.uk/policy/news.asp?REC=4587http://www.fsb.org.uk/policy/news.asp?REC=4587Fri, 25 Apr 2008 25:25:25 GMTFSB urges local authorities to protect their communitiesThe Federation of Small Businesses has launched a Small Business Manifesto to press local authorities to champion small businesses ahead of local elections in England on May 1.http://www.fsb.org.uk/policy/news.asp?REC=4571http://www.fsb.org.uk/policy/news.asp?REC=4571Wed, 9 Apr 2008 09:09:09 GMTGovernment ignores its own rules on better regulationThe Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) says that government is failing to meet its commitments to common commencement dates and to reducing the regulatory burden.http://www.fsb.org.uk/policy/news.asp?REC=4567http://www.fsb.org.uk/policy/news.asp?REC=4567Sun, 6 Apr 2008 06:06:06 GMTPost Office closures will hit local communities, says FSBAhead of todays House of Commons vote on the future of local post offices, the Federation of Small Businesses has called on politicians to take every possible step to retain the post office network.http://www.fsb.org.uk/policy/news.asp?REC=4557http://www.fsb.org.uk/policy/news.asp?REC=4557Fri, 28 Mar 2008 28:28:28 GMTFSB urges Minister to avert nursery school crisisThe Federation of Small Businesses has written to Beverley Hughes MP, the Minister of State at the Department of Children, Schools and Families to warn of a looming crisis in nursery care.http://www.fsb.org.uk/policy/news.asp?REC=4558http://www.fsb.org.uk/policy/news.asp?REC=4558Fri, 28 Mar 2008 28:28:28 GMTFSB Chairman wants to Keep Trade LocalTomorrow sees the beginning of the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) Annual Conference at the Hammersmith Novotel. The Conference will be opened by National Chairman, John Wright when he will tell Conference delegates that yesterday’s 4p raise on beer will hit community pubs.http://www.fsb.org.uk/policy/news.asp?REC=4543http://www.fsb.org.uk/policy/news.asp?REC=4543Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:13:13 GMTFSB welcomes Budget speech with no nasty surprisesThe Federation of Small Businesses welcomed a Budget speech with few alarms and surprises for the UKs 4.5 million-strong small business community.http://www.fsb.org.uk/policy/news.asp?REC=4537http://www.fsb.org.uk/policy/news.asp?REC=4537Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:12:12 GMTGovernment loses trust of small businessesAn overwhelming majority of small businesses have said that their confidence in the Government has diminished since the 2007 Budget.http://www.fsb.org.uk/policy/news.asp?REC=4530http://www.fsb.org.uk/policy/news.asp?REC=4530Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:10:10 GMTFSB satisfied with in-line inflation move in National Minimum WageThe Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) is today happier with the announcement on the latest move in the National Minimum Wage which does not replicate past above-inflation increases.http://www.fsb.org.uk/policy/news.asp?REC=4525http://www.fsb.org.uk/policy/news.asp?REC=4525Wed, 5 Mar 2008 05:05:05 GMTSmall business owners are not immigration officers, says FSBThe Federation of Small Businesses has criticised new legislation on employing foreign workers that will impose unrealistic expectations and draconian fines on employers.http://www.fsb.org.uk/policy/news.asp?REC=4517http://www.fsb.org.uk/policy/news.asp?REC=4517Thu, 28 Feb 2008 28:28:28 GMTFuel costs affect us all, says FSBThe Federation of Small Businesses is urging the Government not to go ahead with a fuel duty increase of 2p per litre, planned for April 1 2008.http://www.fsb.org.uk/policy/news.asp?REC=4511http://www.fsb.org.uk/policy/news.asp?REC=4511Mon, 25 Feb 2008 25:25:25 GMTFSB calls for Peers to save small retailersThe Federation of Small Businesses today called on Peers to support the Retail Development Bill, which will receive its second reading in the House of Lords tomorrow (22 February).http://www.fsb.org.uk/policy/news.asp?REC=4508http://www.fsb.org.uk/policy/news.asp?REC=4508Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:21:21 GMTFSB asks Government to lay off small firmsThe Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) is urging the Government to lay off small businesses in the 2008 Budget. In its annual submission to the Treasury on behalf of its 210,000 members the FSB recommends action to curb the proposed fuel rise charge. It is also firmly opposed to the Government’s draconian attack on the tax arrangements of family firms.http://www.fsb.org.uk/policy/news.asp?REC=4500http://www.fsb.org.uk/policy/news.asp?REC=4500Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:19:19 GMTCompetition Commission tinkering will not work, says FSBThe Federation of Small Businesses today criticised the Competition Commissions proposed remedies in its inquiry into the grocer market.http://www.fsb.org.uk/policy/news.asp?REC=4498http://www.fsb.org.uk/policy/news.asp?REC=4498Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:15:15 GMTFSB Conference 2008 attracts big speakersBoris Johnson (Conservative), Brian Paddick (Liberal Democrat) and Sian Berry (Green Party) will all undergo a grilling in a London Mayoral Question Time session at the Annual Conference of the Federation of Small Businesses’ (FSB). Present Mayor Ken Livingstone has also been invited and is expected to attend. The Mayoral Question Time will be independently chaired by the former news presenter, Moira Stuart.http://www.fsb.org.uk/policy/news.asp?REC=4495http://www.fsb.org.uk/policy/news.asp?REC=4495Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:13:13 GMTFSB urges integrity of Camden Market re-developmentWith up to three hundred small businesses having suffered in last weekend’s catastrophic fire at London’s famous Camden Lock Market the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) is warning that the subsequent re-development needs to retain integrity and loyalty to the small business owners affected.http://www.fsb.org.uk/policy/news.asp?REC=4490http://www.fsb.org.uk/policy/news.asp?REC=4490Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:11:11 GMTFSB welcomes revisions to capital gains tax plansThe Federation of Small Businesses has welcomed the Governments changes to its plans to reform capital gains tax. But the UKs biggest business organisation warned that small businesses trust in the Government has been damaged by the original proposals and the uncertainty over revisions to them.http://www.fsb.org.uk/policy/news.asp?REC=4472http://www.fsb.org.uk/policy/news.asp?REC=4472Thu, 24 Jan 2008 24:24:24 GMT

BBC SME News

Small firms to get credit advice
Small business owners are being invited to a week of events to help them cope with the continuing credit squeeze. [read on]
How new start-ups can best succeed
George Derbyshire, head of NFEA, looks at how new firms can best overcome the early hurdles they may face. [read on]
Business tax impact a key factor
Simon Burton, a tax expert with Johnston Carmichael, assesses Gordon Brown's eleventh Budget. [read on]
How to attract new clients
Business support expert George Derbyshire looks at how a small firm can best win new clients or customers. [read on]
How free samples can win trade
Business support expert George Derbyshire looks at how new start ups might consider giving away free samples to help kick-start their business. [read on]
How firms can best recycle plastics
Dr Martin Gibson, director of BuildDesk, looks at how small companies can most easily tackle plastic waste. [read on]
Putting food waste to good use
Dr Martin Gibson, director of Envirowise, looks at how restaurants can best recycle waste food and cooking oils. [read on]
Types of hazardous waste
Dr Martin Gibson, director of BuildDesk, looks at which workplace rubbish is classified as hazardous waste. [read on]
How to dispose of old PCs
Dr Martin Gibson, director of Envirowise looks at how small firms can best dispose of their old computers. [read on]
How to impress the bank manager
NatWest's Peter Ferns looks at how to best secure financial backing for your business idea. [read on]
Raising cash for your company
Steve Pateman, chief executive NatWest & RBS Business Banking, looks at a number of ways in which a small firm can raise additional funds. [read on]
Is your business idea any good?
Steve Pateman, chief executive NatWest & RBS Business Banking looks at how to best evaluate whether your business idea would be able to get off the ground. [read on]
Find a more supportive bank
 [read on]

Last updated: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:01:47 GMT

REUTERS Business UK

Banks and miners drag FTSE down
LONDON (Reuters) - The top share index shed 1.05 percent on Friday for its first weekly fall in a month, as a hefty loss in U.S. insurance giant AIG sent financials reeling and miners tracked weaker metal prices. [read on]
EDF has bid alone for British Energy
LONDON (Reuters) - French utility EDF has submitted a takeover proposal for UK nuclear generator British Energy , sources familiar with the matter said on Friday. [read on]
Home repossession orders surge
LONDON (Reuters) - More people in England and Wales are just one step away from losing their homes than at any time since the early 1990s as the credit crunch bites, figures showed on Friday, and experts say things can only get worse. [read on]
Swiss Life mulls bid for Friends Prov unit
LONDON (Reuters) - Insurer Swiss Life is considering a bid for Lombard, the high-end insurance unit of Friends Provident , and is already conducting due diligence, sources familiar with the matter said on Friday. [read on]
"Law and Order" court preps for Clear Channel trial
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The iconic New York State Supreme Court house, a popular backdrop for movies and television shows, was busy preparing for Monday's showdown over the $20 billion (10.2 billion pound) buyout of Clear Channel Communications [read on]
Update on Ferrovial's BAA refinancing knocks shares
MADRID (Reuters) - Ferrovial's UK airports arm said it may not be able to start talks with bondholders about a massive refinancing as soon as planned, knocking the Spanish firm's shares on Friday. [read on]
Citigroup aims to shed $400 billion of assets
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Citigroup Inc said on Friday it plans to shed $400 billion (205 billion pounds) of assets within three years and boost revenue by up to 10 percent annually, in a bid to restore profitability after huge losses tied to flagging mortgage and credit markets. [read on]
Oil hits record $126 on supply worry and fund buying
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil jumped to a record above $126 a barrel on Friday, extending gains to more than 11 percent since the start of the month on fuel supply concerns and a rush of speculator buying. [read on]
Kerkorian launches tender offer for Ford shares
DETROIT (Reuters) - Billionaire investor Kirk Kerkorian on Friday launched a planned tender offer to add to a Ford stake he called an "attractive investment," and not one he acquired to influence the automaker. [read on]
Microsoft appeals against EU fine
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Microsoft said on Friday it was appealing against a record 899 million euro (713 million pounds) fine imposed by the European Commission for using high prices to discourage software competition. [read on]

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