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
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]
