Category: Business
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Margins and Markups: how to handle multiple discounts/rebates
Following on from an old blog post about Margins and markups What everyone in business needs to know a reader posted this question in the comments If you’re not sure how to calculate margins, read that first. Hi, how do you do multiple rebates % to give a true value of what the total discount…
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Spam from Scottish Power, their response: we’ll carry on spamming (just not to you).
Spam annoys me. More specifically, the effect of spam annoys me. It annoys me that from time to time I find emails I really need have been filtered to a spam folder. It annoys me that from time to time customers don’t receive emails from us because our email is filtered to their spam folder.…
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Hot topic – our backup server (overheating!)
Ahh, computer backups. I’ve said before and learn’t first hand how important they are over the years. My business backup routine is to copy the files from the server in another building. I used to have a ReadyNAS NV+ (image on wikipedia) and for many years it served us well. Actually, 8 years, which is…