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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/Small businesses are keen to go green but need financial support so they don't go into the redExpanding the current loan scheme for small businesses and providing incentives for firms to green their buildings are just two of the measures that Government must look at in order to achieve the UK's tough carbon emission reduction targets, according to a new report from the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) today.http://www.fsb.org.uk/news.aspx?REC=6527http://www.fsb.org.uk/news.aspx?REC=6527Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMTMicro firms should be exempt from pension reform ticking time bombAll micro firms should be exempt from the automatic enrolment pension scheme due to come into force in 2012, the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) said today.http://www.fsb.org.uk/news.aspx?REC=6520http://www.fsb.org.uk/news.aspx?REC=6520Thu, 12 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMTReform maternity and paternity pay, says FSB The Government must reform statutory maternity and paternity pay to give small businesses certainty over employee's family leave, the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) said in a new report today.http://www.fsb.org.uk/news.aspx?REC=6499http://www.fsb.org.uk/news.aspx?REC=6499Tue, 3 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMTBoom in small businesses but with a legal sting in the tail With the UK facing high unemployment, the Federation of Small Businesses is expecting a boom in people going it alone this year.http://www.fsb.org.uk/news.aspx?REC=6493http://www.fsb.org.uk/news.aspx?REC=6493Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMTFSB set to be a key business partner with new local enterprise partnershipsSmall businesses are set to be at the heart of the newly created local enterprise partnerships following a meeting between the Department of Communities and Local Government and the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) earlier this week.http://www.fsb.org.uk/news.aspx?REC=6471http://www.fsb.org.uk/news.aspx?REC=6471Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMTLBRO needs revamping, not scrapping, says FSBThe Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) welcomes the review into the performance of the Local Better Regulation Office (LBRO) but is concerned this vital regulatory burden busting body will be scrapped.http://www.fsb.org.uk/news.aspx?REC=6470http://www.fsb.org.uk/news.aspx?REC=6470Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMTBusiness confidence still fragile for small businesses, say FSB Business confidence has worsened over the second quarter of 2010 suggesting that the recovery is still fragile and more should be done to support private sector growth, according to the FSB ‘Voice of Small Business Index', published today.http://www.fsb.org.uk/news.aspx?REC=6464http://www.fsb.org.uk/news.aspx?REC=6464Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMTRoyal Mail is still not delivering two years on, says FSBIn its response to the consultation ‘Review of developments in the postal market and Royal Mail since 2008', the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) is disappointed that the situation with Royal Mail remains the same as in 2008, and that the same key issues highlighted then are still prevalent now.http://www.fsb.org.uk/news.aspx?REC=6455http://www.fsb.org.uk/news.aspx?REC=6455Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMTFSB leads call to scrap the extension of rules on working time to self-employed lorry driversThe Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), supported by 100 influential business leaders and Members of the European Parliament (MEPs), has called on the European Commission to stand firm in its proposal not to include self-employed lorry drivers within European rules on working time.http://www.fsb.org.uk/news.aspx?REC=6422http://www.fsb.org.uk/news.aspx?REC=6422Thu, 1 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMTFSB welcomes moves to reduce regulatory burdenThe Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has today welcomed the Coalition Government's launch of the ‘Your Freedom' website.http://www.fsb.org.uk/news.aspx?REC=6423http://www.fsb.org.uk/news.aspx?REC=6423Thu, 1 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMTFSB reaction to the first Coalition Government Emergency BudgetThe Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), today (22 June) welcomed many of the measures that the Chancellor has announced in the Emergency Budget, but expressed concern that rises in Employer National Insurance Contributions (NICS) were not completely reversed.http://www.fsb.org.uk/news.aspx?REC=6404http://www.fsb.org.uk/news.aspx?REC=6404Tue, 22 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMTBudget should strike the right balance on VAT, say small businessesAs the Chancellor prepares to give his first Budget speech on Tuesday, the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) is urging him to strike the right balance with any tax increases.http://www.fsb.org.uk/news.aspx?REC=6398http://www.fsb.org.uk/news.aspx?REC=6398Mon, 21 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMTEmergency Budget should ‘think small first', says FSBThe Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has today written to the Chancellor, the Rt Hon George Osborne MP ahead of the Emergency Budget on 22 June, urging the Coalition Government to ‘think small first'.http://www.fsb.org.uk/news.aspx?REC=6388http://www.fsb.org.uk/news.aspx?REC=6388Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMTOne million small businesses dissatisfied with their high street bank, says FSBResearch shows that over a quarter of small businesses have been dissatisfied with the support offered by their high street bank in the last 12 months.http://www.fsb.org.uk/news.aspx?REC=6382http://www.fsb.org.uk/news.aspx?REC=6382Mon, 14 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMTWorking time regulations will hinder entrepreneurship warns the FSBAhead of a vote in the European Parliament on Wednesday 16 June, the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) is concerned that MEPs are about to set a dangerous precedent by regulating the working time of self-employed heavy goods vehicle drivers, which could threaten entrepreneurship across Europe.http://www.fsb.org.uk/news.aspx?REC=6384http://www.fsb.org.uk/news.aspx?REC=6384Mon, 14 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMTBusinesses need to be on the ball with TV Licensing, says FSBOn the eve before the World Cup kicks off, new figures show that over half of small firms will be letting their staff watch key matches, however 32 per cent are unaware they need a TV Licence to watch the games online, says the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB).http://www.fsb.org.uk/news.aspx?REC=6368http://www.fsb.org.uk/news.aspx?REC=6368Thu, 10 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMTFSB welcomes attack on red tape The coalition Government's proposals to slash the red tape stifling business growth is welcome news for the UK's 4.8 million small firms, says the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB).http://www.fsb.org.uk/news.aspx?REC=6352http://www.fsb.org.uk/news.aspx?REC=6352Thu, 3 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMTFSB supports small firms to avoid legal strife during the World Cup With the World Cup approaching, the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) and Abbey Legal Protection have produced guidance on how small firms can avoid employment issues during this high-profile month long tournament.http://www.fsb.org.uk/news.aspx?REC=6344http://www.fsb.org.uk/news.aspx?REC=6344Tue, 1 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMTFSB response to the Queen's Speech 2010In the first Queen's Speech of the new coalition Government the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) welcomes moves to safeguard jobs and support the economy as well as investing in high-speed broadband.http://www.fsb.org.uk/news.aspx?REC=6317http://www.fsb.org.uk/news.aspx?REC=6317Tue, 25 May 2010 00:00:00 GMTBroadband should be a universal service obligation, says FSBThe Government must make basic broadband speeds a universal service obligation to help small firms grow and strengthen recovery, the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) said.http://www.fsb.org.uk/news.aspx?REC=6309http://www.fsb.org.uk/news.aspx?REC=6309Fri, 21 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT

BBC SME News

Businesses paying more for loans
A survey of businesses finds they are paying higher fees and costs for loans than they were a year ago. [read on]
Barclays opposes lending targets
The head of Barclays' small business unit criticises the idea of industry-wide government targets for lending to small firms. [read on]
Bank chiefs address lending fears
Six UK bank bosses are to form a taskforce designed to help get lending to businesses back on track. [read on]
Small businesses on bank lending
Small business owners describe the problems they have encountered in getting loans in the current environment. [read on]
Osborne wants banks to lend more
The chancellor warns UK banks they need to start increasing their lending to businesses. [read on]
Cable: Banks are ripping us off
The business secretary tells BBC Panorama that Britain's banks are not giving private customers and small businesses a fair deal. [read on]
Lending to small firms remains mixed
A closer look at bank lending, and why some companies are able to access capital while others are finding it a struggle. [read on]
Cable pledges tough line on banks
Business Secretary Vince Cable says he will take a "tough line" with banks, looking at structural changes and how to increase lending. [read on]
Late payments 'hurt small firms'
More small and medium-sized businesses are suffering as their customers make late payments, research suggests. [read on]
Entrepreneurs get creative
Claire Prentice reports on a new generation of online funding platforms that are helping new businesses get off the ground. [read on]
Learning from the recession
The recession was a tough time for most firms, but how did four female entrepreneurs trade through it? [read on]
Winter 'cost small firms £7bn'
The worst winter in decades has cost the UK's small and medium-sized companies about £7.3bn, a study says. [read on]
EU rule change 'may cut red tape'
Small firms may be exempted from having to draw up and lodge annual accounts, after MEPs approve changes to European Union rules. [read on]
How to write a business plan
If you need backing or investment for your company, then a solid business plan is crucial. Make sure you know where to start. [read on]
How to license out one of your products
Intellectual property expert Julian Nolan looks at how best to arrange a licensing deal. [read on]
Planning to beat the recession
Business Link advisor Ganesh Selvarajah gives some practical advice on how small firms can best plan to cope with the continuing recession. [read on]
Why so many start-ups fail
Howard Graham of business support consultancy Made Simple Group takes a closer look at why so many start-up companies end in failure. [read on]
Mixed picture
Small firms report on current trading conditions [read on]
Harder credit?
Bank lending to small firms still a mixed picture [read on]
Big interest rates
Pawnbrokers say small firms are giving them a boost [read on]
Work experiences
Should internships really be all work and no pay? [read on]
Not so dumb
Don't be afraid to ask the obvious question [read on]
Sign language
The art of attracting shoppers into stores [read on]

Last updated: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 06:44:52 GMT

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