Many business owners will have noticed an increase of sales in the last quarter of 2009. Speaking to clients and small business owners, we're (Media Street) noticing a general sense of complacency and optimism around 2010. People are thinking it's getting better, but sadly it's not.

November sales were up only 1.8% compared to last year, but this isn't to be looked at in a positive light, if we cast our memories back to November 2008 we'll remember the collapse of the Lehman Brothers. Lehman Brothers were one of the largest global financial services companies and started the domino effect, that turned into the recession, in September 2008 when they declared bankruptcy and a debt of over $613 Billion US dollars.

2010 is going to be the first year on record that a higher percentage of people use their mobile phone for calls opposed to landlines. In the UK alone mobile phone usage is at a all time high and as a result companies all around the world are needing to change their strategies to fit in line with consumer trends. This is why Media Street are proud to announce that all their hosting accounts are now iPhone friendly!

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6. View invoices
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Successful toy firm, Hamleys, suffered embarrassing downtime this year at the end of November after an administrative error that resulted in their website being offline for around 36hours.

Whilst the Christmas lights were turning on and people were starting to shop for presents the owners of the website made an administrative error of a lifetime by not renewing their domain name. A representative for the company said "The domain name was not renewed. It was an extremely big oversight, and yes, the timing of it was very unfortunate,".