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Sal the 1st — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 19:09:36 GMT

thanks for all the suggestions but please keep them coming - so far we have found a clinical waste carrier that will do our collections and all the paperwork for @ £35 per month less than we are paying now and whilst that might not sound a lot it all adds up over the course of a year. We are based in Lincolnshire.

Also looking at drug wholesalers - I reckon if more people took the time to look around then some of the suppliers we use would have to become more competitive price wise. I find drug wholesalers are a bit like banks in that most people no matter how much their bank annoys them they are reluctant to change unless they have been right royally pissed off - to many people its just too much hassle. Well sometimes a little bit of hassle is healthy especially if the end result is saving you some brass

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Tracy Windler RVN — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 18:56:04 GMT

We use PCS- Pet Cremation Serices based in Northampton, I think. I can get the number if you need it, but probably a google search would find it. Not sure about how they fair financially, but we are a small practice, so its obviously not extremely expensive.

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Carol Cottrell — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 13:47:32 GMT

Hi Sal,

We use Leyland Pet Crematorium for our clinical waste collection, never had any problems & such nice people! Sorry though, not sure where you are based or how they compare price wise with any others! www.petcrematorium.co.uk

Carol :)

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Jill Macdonald — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 13:26:09 GMT

I use Web One hosting, I think they start at £4.99 a month, depending on bandwidth.

They've been really good to deal with, have helped me with backup and other little bitsof advice.

http://www.webonehosting.com/hosting-plans.html

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Mark Hedberg — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 07:20:47 GMT

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I have a free website with Microsoft Office Live.

I don't think it looks cheap, but quite professional, thank you very much! Lol!

Judge for yourselves www.homeandawaypetcare.co.uk

Did the original website for my old practice too www.brynvets.co.uk

Google do quite nice free sites as well...

Hope that helps

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Great, I just sometimes still meet people who want to get a website with www.yahoo.com/practicename because it's "free and don't see the point of spending loads of cash on it". Glad I misunderstood. :) (Free hosting comes with some web address deal, true! But it's free because you bought a site name, not because they're particularly generous.)

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Sal the 1st — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 21:23:40 GMT

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Katy — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 21:19:48 GMT

I have a free website with Microsoft Office Live.

I don't think it looks cheap, but quite professional, thank you very much! Lol!

Judge for yourselves www.homeandawaypetcare.co.uk

Did the original website for my old practice too www.brynvets.co.uk

Google do quite nice free sites as well...

Hope that helps

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Sal the 1st — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 21:18:45 GMT

we already have quite a good website at the moment (sorry maybe didnt make that clear) we are just looking for different hosting as what we are using now is too expensive.

just trying to do my bit in keeping the bills down

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Mark Hedberg — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 21:10:38 GMT

Go with cheap, not free - nothing is worse than a free website presence. It looks cheap, and you will never, ever get worthwhile traffic. Google doesn't work that way. Buy a web address, many hosting companies throw in cheap website hosting and some email addresses. Plus, it's the 21st century. Your office email should be something professional like welcome@myvetclinic.com instead of summertimebeerdrinker1996@aol.com. (trust me, i've seen some odd ones.) Also, before you get a website, plan what you want to do with it first. List 5 things you want your website to have. Then a good designer can put you together a site that will last you for years, and you and your clients won't hate it. :)

good luck!