WinWeb

Telegraph: IT potentially more damaging than Red Tape for Home & Small Business.

February 25, 2009

The Telegraph Newspaper has today published an interview with WinWeb’s Founder & CEO Stefan Töpfer, in which it picks up on the fact that spending your time on IT-information technology chores can be just as damaging for small business as red-tape. These activities are often very time consuming and the business owner loses business focus.

With almost 56% business failure in the first five years it is essential that small business entrepreneurs and home business owners focus on their business goals. Richard White, Director of Bank of Scotland Corporate, says, ” Anything that makes life easier for very small companies is well worth the effort, and it is providing valuable business for WinWeb too.”

WinWeb provides the most cost-effective small business infrastructure – software and business services online to startup and run a small business or home office – by providing on-demand cloud computing, software as a service (SaaS) combining this with ‘Pay-As-You-Go’ business services, from bookkeeping and call handling to trade show organisation.

Read full story @ telegraph.co.uk

Free Websites For All Clients By WinWeb Gold Partner.

February 17, 2009

Jason Holden from Holden Associates, one of our Gold Partners, always says: ‘Not all accountants are equal, when it comes to home businesses or small businesses!’

He is certainly proving this to be the case, with his new offer of a free website for each one of his clients. Building on WinWeb’s OnlineOffice functionality, which includes accounting software, but also web-hosting and a web-builder, he now offers each client a free website. This during a time when small business is struggling to make ends meet.

So far, Jason is certainly one of a kind – a real partner for home and small business, self-employed and freelancers – good for his clients and good on him.

Read more @ holdenassociates.co.uk

The Nursery Industry Magazine Welcomes 2009.

February 3, 2009

‘Hello 2009 – We’ve been expecting you,’ this is the headline in the Nursery Industry Magazine and on the website, in which WinWeb Gold Partner Jason Holden of Holden Associates Accountants talks about the new year gone and the year ahead. The challenges for small businesses like nurseries are just as in other small business areas. He makes the point that those businesses that are well prepared will still grow and flourish.

At the end of his business advice for the nursery industry he talks about our Business’09 Campaign and mentions the £10,000 main prize and our aim to help start over 1,000 new businesses before October 31st, 2009.

Read more @ www.nursery-industry.co.uk

The Independent: Effective Use Of IT Better Than Any Tax Break Or Incentive

An effective use of technology can be more useful to small business than any tax break or incentive, writes Roger Trapp for The Independent. In an article about Shell LiveWIRE, The Princes Trust and WinWeb, he talks about hundreds of thousands of businesses started and the challenges faced by small business during and after the business start-up.

He shares our sentiment, that the aim has to be to reduce the mortality rate amongst small business and home businesses. The use of WinWeb OnlineOffice – software and business services online to run and start a small business from your home office – is the ideal tool for small businesses to get started writes The Independent.

Read more @: www.independent.co.uk

WinWeb Offers Low Price Guarantee To Small Businesses & Home Offices.

Winweb offers all small business owners a low price guarantee on it’s OnlineOffice product, resulting in savings of over 75% on essential small business IT spend. In real numbers this means a saving of over $1,100 for US small businesses and over £680 for UK small businesses.

At a time when small businesses are struggling to survive and in the spirit of the early internet, WinWeb pushes once again the boundaries of what can be achieved by using online technology in terms of cost-effectiveness and real savings for small business.

Stefan Töpfer, Founder CEO of WinWeb reminds people: ‘ In the early years of the Internet everything on the web was supposed to be free. We for once have not abandoned this mentality by offering software and services to small business, at a fraction of the cost other commercial providers offer their small business software at. We still believe that much can be done to reduce cost in the future even more, and we are on the way to achieving this goal.’

WinWeb’s aim is to drive the price for small business applications further down, while adding new software modules and services to it’s OnlineOffice product at the same time. This will increase pressure on other online software vendors to follow suite.

These savings have been achieved by focusing on a narrow customer profile of 1 to 10 person companies, working from home or a small office or workshop. Many of WinWeb’s customers start as an ‘On The Side’ business, to supplement their income or build up an alternative income should they lose their current employment. While the majority of customers are in the 1 to 3 person business bracket, and have no intention to grow their core business, more and more start building virtual companies, by networking and collaborating online with other small businesses, to tackle bigger projects together.

The home business market has grown last year by around 16% and is set to increase during 2009 again. ‘We are here to support this trend of low-overheads and minimal start-up cost entrepreneurs’, says Töpfer, ‘These businesses are the life-blood of our economy for the future. Many businesses started during the last big economic downturn are doing very nicely today. We have learnt from this trend.’