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		<title>10 reasons to remotely back up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If your company permanently lost all data, it would have a 60 per cent chance of going under. Did you know on average, it takes 21 days and £12,000 to recreate just 20MB of lost accounting information? It is crucial to your business&#8217;s survival to back up data and form a disaster recovery plan, now [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.britishsme.co.uk/2010/08/22/10-vital-reasons-to-remotely-backup-your-data/</link>
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		<title>Energy switching: who wins?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The range in commercial energy prices in the UK is such that the cheapest business electricity rates are a third of the price of the most expensive. The difference between ‘new customer’ and ‘repeat business’ electricity rates, for example, can mean a savings of thousands of pounds, even to the smallest of companies. Consequently, there [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.britishsme.co.uk/2010/08/17/energy-switching-who-wins/</link>
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		<title>Online payments leaving SMEs open to fraud</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Insufficient security checks and the complexity involved in taking online payments are leaving small firms exposed to payment processing fraud, the Forum of Private Business is warning. Accepting card payments online is an increasingly important source of revenue for small firms but many business owners have little or no experience of the contractual processes that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.britishsme.co.uk/2010/08/16/online-payments-leaving-smes-open-to-fraud/</link>
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		<title>Bank loan complaints more than double</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The number of complaints from small businesses about bank loans, has rocketed by 119 per cent in the last 12 months says new bank Aldermore. 496 complaints were made to the Financial Ombudsman (FOS) by small businesses about their bank loans or overdrafts over the last year compared to 226 complaints in the previous 12 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.britishsme.co.uk/2010/08/16/bank-loan-complaints-more-than-double/</link>
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		<title>Small businesses keen to go green</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Expanding 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&#8217;s tough carbon emission reduction targets, according to a new report from the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) today. The UK is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.britishsme.co.uk/2010/08/16/small-businesses-keen-to-go-green/</link>
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		<title>Property and construction hit hardest by recession</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The largest number of insolvencies during the recession was in the real estate, renting and business activities sector, according to insolvency body R3. With over 12,000 (12,050) real estate insolvencies, this is nearly double that of the second most affected sector &#8211; construction, at 7,184. Wholesale and retail are third with 6,077 and manufacturing fourth [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.britishsme.co.uk/2010/08/07/property-and-construction-hit-hardest-by-recession/</link>
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		<title>SMEs risking billions in hot weather</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Small business owners must take precautions in order to prevent fridge or freezer malfunction due to a loss of power during the hot summer months, says insurer RSA. Even a small incident or power cut lasting only a few minutes could potentially prove costly for business owners. UK consumers spend £5 billion on frozen food [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.britishsme.co.uk/2010/08/07/smes-risking-billions-in-hot-weather/</link>
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		<title>RSA launches one stop cover for SMEs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[RSA has launched a new multi-cover Small Business Combined (SBC) product for businesses with a turnover of up to £5 million. Designed to meet the needs of small wholesale, manufacturing and warehousing businesses, it offers multiple covers under one package including property damage, business interruption and liability. It is one of the first products of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.britishsme.co.uk/2010/07/05/rsa-launches-one-stop-cover-for-smes/</link>
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		<title>Cutting red tape committee meets for the first time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new Cabinet committee with the job of reducing the heavy burden of red tape on business, chaired by business secretary Vince Cable, has met for the first time. The Reducing Regulation Committee discussed its fundamentally different approach to regulation and began its major review of all regulations in the pipeline. The Committee has the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.britishsme.co.uk/2010/07/05/cutting-red-tape-committee-meets-for-the-first-time/</link>
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		<title>Barclaycard to launch SmartPay</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Barclaycard is planning to launch Barclaycard SmartPay, a new payment processing system to help Barclaycard&#8217;s e-commerce customers manage their cross-border payments. SmartPay, which has been piloted during 2010,will work by giving organisations access to one single payment processing system to use across markets that can be tailored to provide a range of language and currency [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.britishsme.co.uk/2010/07/05/barclaycard-to-launch-smartpay/</link>
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