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lol Was reading Barney's post, whilst listening to Clive currently on the phone to our business bank manager ranting and threatening to close our account.

All he wanted to do was open a new savings account, 30 minutes later and he's still on the phone and it sounds like tempers are getting frayed! Yup, just heard it, the compensation word Go Clive Go....

Banks eh?

Welcome aboard

I'm no expert, and personally I think for the amount of money you are talking about, you would be better spending a few hundred quid and getting professional advice from someone who will have access to all the facts.

US or UK Limited Liability is a good route to go, when it comes to personal risk, but does come with responsibilities, reporting, accounts etc.

If you are UK based, and your product SAS, so I assume online, does it have to be a US LLC? Why not set up a UK Ltd? We run our US based directory under our UK Ltd. Tax wise is then as per your tax return, and business via Corporation Tax once in profit.

But like I say, I think you need professional face to face advice to get the right solution for your personal circumstances.

Don't be so sure, never seen Futurama? We'll all be preserved in jars They'll probably put you next to a pickled spammer just to annoy you

Start G+ as Alice says, and is also the first in the link clearcandy provided is actually streamified. Start G+ (startgoogleplus.com) just redirects to streamified, so dunno if they bought them out? But streamified is the one that caused me so many problems in Chrome

Remember Adwords placements are dynamic with keywords being bid on all the time, so keyword cpc will vary all the time. It may require 30p to display one day, and maybe 20p another. If you're budget for that keyword is say 25p, then when it rises to 30p, it will stop showing.

I have keywords that regularly display ads, then later the same day stop displaying for this reason, or another keyword in another campaign is more relevant (which isn't great as I'm competing against myself )

Does that help?

Looks like a bigger lifeline has been thrown!

I know what you mean. Google is now a way of life, and with some of the great tools they provide (for free) they are pretty indispensable for most businesses.

But I do get the feeling sometimes that some of their developers are not that experienced or aren't used to a professional change control environment, with some tools or apps getting released which are too buggy, or big changes made to layouts which are just dropped on us. It feels sometimes like I'm using tools from a development lab.

Other odd things as well go against normal convention, such as us mere mortals are used to saving things, when we make changes. But in the Google world (such as the settings panel on Chrome), any changes are automatic and don't need to be saved. That's probably more efficient, and means less risk of accidently not saving, but my brain likes to see a "save" button.

Also, Google must have a huge UX (user experience testing) team, but I can't believe they all agreed that the latest search bar, with the tabs across the top (web images maps etc) is more logical and better than when it was down the left hand side.

Me personally, I regularly use time tab, ie search for documents within a time frame to cut down some of the old rubbish. On the left menu it was displayed, now along the top I have to click "search tools" and then select the "any time" tab to choose an option.

As for the constant G+ Local listings that show up above the organic results, but below the sponsor results, this is shameless self marketing, which reduces genuine organic results to below the fold

But Google give plenty of positives, as already said, some superb and free toolsets, and for me, good revenue generating potential with things like adsense.

Maybe a bit of genuine competition would reign in a bit some of the developers, and they would then give a bit more thought to businesses, who seem to be second class citizens these days, but actually provide a lot of the content, rather than just the end users

Had a heads up from different directory owners that this scam is still alive and well.

Same old message, trying to convince you to renew your directory over the phone, using pressure tactics.

Same old advice! Agree to absolutely nothing from a cold call and leave your credit card in your pocket!!!

If in any doubt or suspicious, ask for the directory website address, go and visit it, if you recognise it as being something you are a member of, then telephone them back using the number from that website.

Don't be a victim!

Hmm an update on streamified, and also any chrome extension you are playing with.

Streamified has caused havoc with my browser and causes all sorts of problems with Google+ so have removed it and normality has returned.

As with all browsers, anyone can write apps/plugins for them, but these can be of different quality and can be buggy, so beware! Plus the more plugins you use, the more resources Chrome/IE/FF will use and the slower your browser and PC will be

I was going to say, what if your products are aimed at a Primark type customer? shoppers wanting discount luxury, and for that it has to be made very cheaply.

But then I saw Primark does make a big play on ethical trading, so unless it's just propaganda and good marketing, maybe you really can have an ethical business?