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January 05 Newsletter

Happy New Year from all the team at Studio 2 Online.

This month's features >
Studio 2 welcomes Jon! The design personality test
Missed a newsletter? The value of your business
Music downloads over take CDs Membership module launches
Leicester Chamber of Commerce Skiing high scores





Studio 2 Online welcomes Jon!

Just before Christmas we welcomed new member Jon into our programming team, who will be helping us work on new and exciting projects in 2005 and beyond.

Young but very experienced, techno-geek Jon brings to the Studio 2 table new skills and ideas to help set a new benchmark in website, software and system development.



 Missed a newsletter?

If you have missed any of our monthly news updates, or want to re-read any information that may have been on a previous article, remember that we keep an archive of all our newsletters on the Studio 2 website!
Click here and have a browse >
www.s2o.co.uk/newsletter.htm




Music downloads overtake CD single sales
(Taken from BBC News)

Sales of song downloads overtook those for physical singles for the first time at the end of 2004.

The last week in December saw download sales of 312,000 compared with 282,000 physical singles, according to the British Phonographic Industry (BPI).

The download total beats the previous weekly record by more than 20%.

The round-the-clock access to music download sites is thought to have made online purchasing more convenient and attractive.

The 5.7 million legal downloads in 2004 lifted the total singles market by 4%. Download sales figures are soon to be included in the official singles chart.

Click here to read the full story.


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 Hilarious Ebay inspired song!
http://www.geoffellis.com/ebay.html




Studio 2 rejoins the Chamber of Commerce

Studio 2 Online is proud to be part of the
Leicester Chamber of Commerce.

Studio 2 Online recognised that membership with the Leicester Chamber of Commerce was an essential part to raising our profile within Leicester.

Chamber membership helps us keep in touch with current local developments, trends and making connections with other Leicestershire businesses. Thus benefiting our clients as we continue to provide the best services and products we can.






The design personality test

Due to the success of our 'pig personality test' from last year, we thought we would give you another insight into the intriguing world of your brain with another quick and easy test.

All you need to do is choose an image below that appeals to you the most. Then click here to find out whether you are sensitive, dynamic, cheerful...
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Increase the value of your business

Were you aware that the development of a business website is classed as an asset rather than an expense?

This means that the costs involved in your website development are not simply figures detracting from your end of year profits, but an actual increase in the value of your business.

Should this in turn affect how you treat the costs for website development? An aim of any business is to minimise expenses, therefore as an expense a website would be considered a consumable item, the costs to be cut, whereas as an asset your website would be treated differently and invested in so that it contributes to helping reach a wider audience and deliver more goods and services to your current client base.

To find out more about how this could benefit you, speak to your accountant.


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 Genuine (allegedly) auctions from ebay.com
http://www.whattheheck.com/ebay





Membership module launches

A recent addition to our ever growing CMS system is the membership module. This allows you to develop and maintain memberships and membership areas within your website.

You can therefore set up protected pages, forums and calendars on your website. You can have multiple member types within one site all with different levels of access, and you have full control over what is and isn't accessible and can alter these at any time.

If you wish to charge for the membership types on your site then you will just require our ecommerce module as well. Users can then add different memberships to their shopping basket and buy online. As our ecommerce system is futurepay enabled you can even set up payment cycles for membership renewal.

If you are interested in simply having a few password protected pages on your current site, or you wish to sell memberships to users with all the benefits of accessing extra infomation, forums and cheaper product pricing, then please get in touch.
Call our Sales Team on 0870 837 0086

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 One of those auctions! Buy someone's Grandma.
http://www.whattheheck.com/ebay/grandma.html




Skiing high scores

Thanks for all the enthusiastic comments regarding our Christmas e-card game, we're glad we managed to distract so many people away from their work in the run up to christmas!

As you can see from our high scores chart, the board is dominated by people playing Sasha, who as the most difficult to play earned the most points. The board is headed by 'always the champ' with an incredible 65600 points although the game is still available online if anyone would like to try and prove him/her wrong!




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