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		<title>I am flattered by the positive feedback I received afterwards from the audience following my presentation on ASK Translation and ASK Print to 80 business people and business angel investors at the SWAIN &amp; XENOS Joint Investment Forum and Fayre in Chepstow earlier today. A more detailed video of my pitch and plan, which is all about growing our yearbook, calendar, diary and photo book printing products marketed on www.askprint.co.uk by a factor of ten in the next 5 years is available to investors on the SWAIN website, www.swain.org.uk &#8211; for further information, or for a copy of our memorandum, PowerPoint overview or my video please contact me.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 17:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<title>Our new ASK Print home page launched earlier today &#8230; www.askprint.co.uk &#8230; focussing the site more heavily on our yearbook printing, photo book printing, calendar printing, diary printing and new funeral stationery printing services which we call our personalised print products.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 23:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<title>I will be presenting to potential investors in ASK at the SWAIN &amp; XENOS Joint Investment Forum and Fayre in Chepstow on Wednesday 6th March. A video of my presentation, which is all about growing our personalised print products division marketed on www.askprint.co.uk by a factor of ten in the next 5 years will be available on the SWAIN website, www.swain.org.uk</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 18:05:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[business angels investment]]></category>
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		<title>www.askprint.co.uk have just invested &#163;100,000 in a brand new top of the range state-of-the-art Calendar Printing Press</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2012 16:41:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our ASK Print division have just invested &#163;100,000 in a brand new top of the range state-of-the-art Printing Press improving our digital print quality, increasing our capacity and helping make us even more efficient. Our Facebook page shows this being installed last week.. Thank you EBS, our supplier, Richard Rigg our finance broker and Armada [...]

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Our ASK Print division have just invested &pound;100,000 in a brand new top of the range state-of-the-art Printing Press improving our digital print quality, increasing our capacity and helping make us even more efficient. Our <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Calendar-Printing/154900937861552">Facebook page</a> shows this being installed last week.</font>. Thank you EBS, our supplier, Richard Rigg our finance broker and Armada Asset Finance for helping make this happen. Gary Keens, Managing Director.</p>
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		<title>Visit www.nowtonlodgefarm.co.uk if you need a large holiday house for Christmas or New Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2012 11:18:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The holiday home letting business is up and running, and we are taking bookings at www.nowtonlodgefarm.co.uk so if you need an amazing large holiday home for Christmas or New Year we are now available for bookings. Alternatively visit our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/NowtonLodgeFarm

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		<title>Recruiting for experienced Telesales / telemarketing staff for our translation company division</title>
		<link>http://www.askgroup.co.uk/blog/?p=166</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2012 14:50:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[High Quality Translation and Print services]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am recruiting for a Spring Telemarketing campaign to FTSI 350 companies, into their Marketing, Corporate Communications and Procurement departments. This will suit either home workers or on-site staff at our Bury St Edmunds Head Office. For further information visit www.askgroup.co.uk/careers03.html

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am recruiting for a Spring Telemarketing campaign to FTSI 350 companies, into their Marketing, Corporate Communications and Procurement departments.</p>
<p>This will suit either home workers or on-site staff at our Bury St Edmunds Head Office.</p>
<p>For further information visit <a href="http://www.askgroup.co.uk/careers03.html">www.askgroup.co.uk/careers03.html</a></p>
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		<title>Our latest ASK Internet client website: www.nowtonlodgefarm.co.uk</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2012 20:24:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[holiday lets suffolk]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well not quite a client as it&#8217;s one of my ventures, but technically an ASK Internet job as it was put together by my team. It&#8217;s a small Holiday Letting business near Bury St Edmunds and Newmarket in Suffolk, full details can be found on www.nowtonlodgefarm.co.uk or on our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/NowtonLodgeFarm

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well not quite a client as it&#8217;s one of my ventures, but technically an ASK Internet job as it was put together by my team.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a small Holiday Letting business near Bury St Edmunds and Newmarket in Suffolk, full details can be found on <a href="http://www.nowtonlodgefarm.co.uk">www.nowtonlodgefarm.co.uk</a> or on our Facebook page: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/NowtonLodgeFarm">www.facebook.com/NowtonLodgeFarm</a></p>
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		<title>Expanding through Sales Agents</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2012 17:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Translation and Print News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now we have established ourselves as market leaders in the digital printing and creation of personalised calendars, Christmas cards, diaries, photo books and school yearbooks we are now planning to take this national through a series of Sales Agents in 2013. Very much like a No Cost Franchise, each Sales Agent will be assigned a [...]

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Now we have established ourselves as market leaders in the digital printing and creation of personalised calendars, Christmas cards, diaries, photo books and school yearbooks we are now planning to take this national through a series of Sales Agents in 2013.</p>
<p>Very much like a No Cost Franchise, each Sales Agent will be assigned a territory and sell our personalised print products into Schools, Colleges, Universities, Golf Clubs, Sports Clubs, Societies, Model Agencies, Companies and Photographers.</p>
<p>Each territory will cover 1, 2 or 3 UK postcodes so we will ultimately be looking for around 60-120 Sales Agents.</p>
<p>For further information on this visit <a href="http://www.askprint.co.uk">www.askprint.co.uk</a> or our <a href="http://www.askgroup.co.uk">www.askgroup.co.uk</a> Sales Agent area.</p>
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		<title>The 2013 Calendar Printing Season has arrived!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2012 17:12:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Translation and Print News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Calendar printing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[charity calendar printing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personalised Calendars]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our 2013 Personalised Calendar Season has started with an influx. We have been specialising in calendar printing for 4 years now, have created some fantastic templates, and our customers have none of the design work to do, our creative studio takes their photos, notable dates and logos and adds these to their chosen template, professionally [...]

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Our 2013 Personalised Calendar Season has started with an influx.</p>
<p>We have been specialising in calendar printing for 4 years now, have created some fantastic templates, and our customers have none of the design work to do, our creative studio takes their photos, notable dates and logos and adds these to their chosen template, professionally creating a customised calendar the same quality as you find in high street stores.</p>
<p>To find out more or to get a quote visit <a href="http://www.askprint.co.uk/services/calendar-printing.php">http://www.askprint.co.uk/services/calendar-printing.php</a></p>
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		<title>Increasing Employers NIC is taxing me for employing staff</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:07:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[How the economy effects a typical small UK translation and print company]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the ways industry can help our economy come out of recession is to get more people into work, and then reduce our massive deficit from the tax revenues raised and reduction in state benefits paid out...

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of the ways industry can help our economy come out of recession is to get more people into work, and then reduce our massive deficit from the tax revenues raised and reduction in state benefits paid out.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t think you need to be a rocket scientist to work that out!</p>
<p>If someone is unemployed, they are unlikely to see a job advertised and think I won&#8217;t apply because I&#8217;ll pay too much tax. So if taxes need to be raised to balance the books the logical thing to do would be to increase VAT and to increase PAYE tax.</p>
<p>However, politicians of all persuasions seem to be spineless and only interested in short term votes rather than the long terms well being of our economy.</p>
<p>They have proved that by increasing Employers NIC. All that will do is stop employers employing people at source. I  run a small business so only have 6 <a href="http://www.translate.co.uk/translation_jobs_career.htm">translation job vacancies</a> at the moment.</p>
<p>What the country needs is a radical policy and approach to balance the books and get people back to work:</p>
<ul>
<li>Cut Employers NIC to 5%, massively encouraging employers to take on staff</li>
<li>Force Employers to contribute 3% to employees stakeholder pensions</li>
<li>Raise employees NIC by 3%</li>
<li>Raise PAYE tax rates by 4%</li>
<li>Raise VAT to 20%</li>
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<p>Forget this rubbish about dramatically cutting Public Sector Jobs, in general Public Sector money is spent internally in the UK on jobs and big internally spent capital projects. By cutting this back, laying off staff and ineffect putting more money into all our pockets will just result in a huge proportion of that money flowing out of the country into foreign holidays and chinese goods.</p>
<p>It might not gain votes but it would get us out of the mess we are in as a country much much faster than the populist burying heads in the sand policies of the national political parties!</p>
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