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If you do business with international clients there’s a good chance you’ll have to do much of your business over the phone as flying out to see them in person takes up far too much time and money.

So if you need to make an international conference call you’ll need a provider that offers this service – and ConferenceCall.co.uk has everything you’ll need to make a conference call within the UK or overseas.

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A flight to Czechia – or the Czech Republic, to give it its full name – only takes a couple of hours, but if you’ve business associates over there, you might want to consider conference calling as a way to stay in touch – it’s a lot more cost effective and convenient than jetting out there.

And you can set up a conference call for up to 100 people in just a few simple steps, using nothing more than a landline or mobile phone. Here’s how…

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Cyprus is a well known and much loved summer holiday destination, and home to a UK military base, but it’s also a great place for UK businesses looking to set up overseas as it shares very close economic, trade, political and cultural relations – accounting, banking, business culture and legal systems are all very similar to the UK.

However, given that a direct flight from London takes the best part of five hours, it’s not a round trip you’d want to do in a day.

So if you’ve business interests out in Cyprus, it might be worth considering checking in via teleconference from time to time.

In just a few simple steps you can be speaking with up to 100 other people, using nothing more than a landline or mobile phone.

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If your smartphone always travels with you, it probably knows more about you than most people. It knows where you’ve been, when you’ve been there, who you messaged, and what you’ve searched for online.

As if this wasn’t worrying enough, the data you’re constantly generating can be sold onto third parties who’ll then bombard you with adverts in your emails and on social media. Or that data could be used by cyber criminals to target you or other people.

Here are four tips to help you improve the privacy and security of your iPhone.

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Mental health problems are more common than you may think – figures from Mind, the mental health charity show that 1 in 4 people in the UK will experience a mental health problem each year.

The effects of the coronavirus lockdown might even make this figure higher – being stuck between the same four walls can have a negative impact on mental health at the best of times, feelings that will be exacerbated by the pandemic ad talk of death and illness, not to mention insecurity over jobs and personal and business finance.

May 9 to 15 is Mental Health Awareness Week, a campaign designed to help encourage people to talk about mental health and address and issues head on. This year’s campaign will focus on the problem of loneliness.

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Croatia’s traditional trading partners are Italy, Germany and Austria, but there are plenty of opportunities for UK businesses – big companies like British Airways, GlaxoSmithKline,  WYG and Vodafone all operate in Croatia.

If you’re looking export to Croatia, or even set up there, it makes sense to keep in touch via an international conference call rather than try to fly out there.

Here’s how to set up a conference call to Croatia in just a few simple steps.

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It looks like we’re headed for a heatwave next week, with temperatures in London set to hit 24°C – not ideal for life in an office. If you have to endure a suffocating commute, or your packed into a crowded office for the best part of the day, then you’ll be well within your rights to complain that it’s just too hot – especially if you’re forced to wear a suit for work.

So, as an employer, is it time you implemented a summer dress code, to lighten the mood and help keep things cool as the temperature rises? And should non-customer facing staff be able to wear what they like to work in, as they can when they work from home?

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Brexit has been full of unexpected surprises, none of which have been any good. One of those Brexit bombshells involved roaming charges. But what are roaming charges, why do we pay them, and how is Brexit involved? Read on to find out.

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