A success ecommerce business owner is looking for business partner.

[digiworks]

I came from Far East and have been living in UK for 10 years. I founded an import business in 2004 and it is growing slowly. In 2008, I set up an ecommerce shop specialised on low end consumer electronics, the online business have made more and more profit since then. The business is in Bedfordshire.

As business is growing, I am looking for 1-2 key business partners who can help to grow the business to next level.

The key qualifications are:


Business experience: 5 year or more business experience, 3 year or more related to Ecommerce business, deep understanding ecosystem of UK ecommerce ( please contact me on this if you need more explanation). Educated to degree level is a must, with relevant subjects such as: computer sciences, internet applications, etc are a plus.
Good communication/management skills and leadership: have managed 20+ employees at least before. Have been a member of middle/ senior management in a medium / large size businesses is a definite plus.
Technical skills: proficient in HTML & CSS, DHTML, XHTML, JavaScript, Flash & competent in Photoshop & Dreamweaver, must have commercial experience & know usability, browser standard & accessibility with basic understanding of PHP, mySQL. have previous background in website design or development or a well rounded practical ecommerce experience, commercially used CMS, knowing SEO/PPC is a plus.
Please send email to: digiwork8 ( at ) yahoo ( dot ) CO ( dot ) UK if you are interested and I will disclose more in email.

[KateCB]

Sounds to me like you are looking for a technical architect with business experience at managment level rather than a business partner - the degree level education is a bit much, one of the best lead technical architects I know (see linkedin - Roy Carter -Brown) has 9 O levels.....

To employ someone like this you are looking at 70K plus per year - and they would want to earn that from their partnership with you, plus of course additional profits on their investment - can you guarantee that?

[alanc]

I was wondering whether the OP was looking for a business manager or a web technician. To have one person do both jobs simultaneously would be a tall order.

[edmondscommerce]

looks dangerously like the resume of a jack of all trades, master of none.

for the proposed £70k you could probably hire a decent developer with a bit of business know how and a business manager with a bit of technical know how

[KateCB]

for the proposed £70k you could probably hire a decent developer with a bit of business know how and a business manager with a bit of technical know how[/quote]

From my knowledge of development and tech. arch, I would say
a decent developer with a bit of business know how OR a business manager with a bit of technical know how!

[quikshop]

Concerns me greatly when someone wanting to be taken seriously uses a free-based email address, suggests no accountability or confidence in their own proposal :eek:

[sysops]

The key qualifications are:


Business experience: 5 year or more business experience, 3 year or more related to Ecommerce business, deep understanding ecosystem of UK ecommerce ( please contact me on this if you need more explanation). Educated to degree level is a must, with relevant subjects such as: computer sciences, internet applications, etc are a plus.
Good communication/management skills and leadership: have managed 20+ employees at least before. Have been a member of middle/ senior management in a medium / large size businesses is a definite plus.
Technical skills: proficient in HTML & CSS, DHTML, XHTML, JavaScript, Flash & competent in Photoshop & Dreamweaver, must have commercial experience & know usability, browser standard & accessibility with basic understanding of PHP, mySQL. have previous background in website design or development or a well rounded practical ecommerce experience, commercially used CMS, knowing SEO/PPC is a plus.

Please send email to: digiwork8 ( at ) yahoo ( dot ) CO ( dot ) UK if you are interested and I will disclose more in email.

That is the most ridiculous set of requirements I have *ever* seen.

Just looking at the technical skills alone, you won't find someone who has all of those skills (they will say they do, but they don't really). Generally speaking they will either be designers (photoshop, flash), developers (html, css, php, mysql), or marketers (seo, ppc). You just won't find one person who is very good in all three fields.

But wait, that's not all. On top of the phenomenal technical skills, you want in-depth business experience in ecommerce.

And to top it off, you want this person to have senior management experience, of 20 or more employees!

Good luck with that.

[Chris Ashdown]

My question is, do you want management who can take the company forward with their plans and actions or workers who can make things. two different people

A degree is a good starting position for a 23ish new starter with nothing else to offer, but you are lookin for someone who is probably a free thinker so why limit yourself, even Bill Gates did not have a degree

Does your company really need a high strength full time tech department of can you buy in exertise as required

[zigojacko]

Concerns me greatly when someone wanting to be taken seriously uses a free-based email address, suggests no accountability or confidence in their own proposal :eek:


I would have to agree, using a free yahoo email address hardly inspires you with confidence or displays professionalism for such a 'high spec' position as detailed.

[edmondscommerce]

tbh though using a free email address just tells me this person isn't the most tech savvy..

I know plenty of older business peeps who happily use yahoo mail as their primary email address. I wouldn't be too quick to judge based on that.

[zigojacko]

tbh though using a free email address just tells me this person isn't the most tech savvy..

I know plenty of older business peeps who happily use yahoo mail as their primary email address. I wouldn't be too quick to judge based on that.

You are right, I've got a number or well established non-tech savvy clients that use a free web based email account so granted, maybe quick to just to presumptions...

It's just based on the detail of that job spec/requirements, you would feel this would be made to appear as professional and legit as possible... Perhaps?

As previously mentioned, to find someone with all those qualities is going to be hard... i almost fit the bill but haven't managed 20 employees + before and don't have a degree...

[edmondscommerce]

true enough..

I have a degree (though not really related to what I do) and haven't managed that many people.

My point earlier in the thread was that its better to build a team of experts than one supremely over worked jack of all trades

[alanc]

Concerns me greatly when someone wanting to be taken seriously uses a free-based email address, suggests no accountability or confidence in their own proposal :eek:
I suspect the freebie email was to prevent his business email from being clogged-up by the flood of applicants :D

[zigojacko]

Yes very true, and also, to have someone with all those qualities/skills, I really don't think it would be even possible to put them all to use within their work as well as half manage the business, with skills such as css/xhtml/php/mysql/seo/ppc, trends are constantly changing and it requires research and constant involvement in the industry to stay on top of any developments and 'move with the times'. Heh

[KateCB]

I think we scared him........he is very quiet........

[Mr M Benson]

Perhaps a lamb to the slaughter with my free gmail address. but divulging my work e-mail address and thereby exposing my ambitions to "break out" would be foolish.

Please see a paste of my original post in UK start up forums. I hope those of you are interested will get in touch.

For those that want to make a critical assesement on the nuances of my post, please pass me by.

thanks

Mr B

.................................................. .................................................. .

Dear Reader

I have worked within large Government and Private ICT Change and Transformation programmes for the past 10 years since graduating in Marketing & Law.

For the past 5 years I have become increasingly disillusioned with ICT Suppliers within this industry. It seems within the confides of these companies, im forever going to be bound by someone else’s dogma and someone elses decisions. Senior management have no ethics, no sense of vision, and no real strategy for longevity.

I have always had the ambition of starting my own Project management / delivery consultancy. Recently i have stepped up the ante by scouring public and private sector tenders, and have gone as far as applying for a PQQ (just to get a feel for the process). I was pleasantly surprised on how non-complex the ICT tenders were and how accommodating procurement managers were ready to give organisations of any size a shot at winning a multimillion pound tender.

I can’t approach lead technical CTO's and architects at my work place to partner up, as they are seemingly content with the 9-5, so I am looking for technical business partners. Whilst I can drive the Project Management, ITIL & consultancy side, I don’t know how to put together a high level network design, or how to assess a client’s data centre requirements for virtullaistaion viability or how to assess a client’s storage requirements (to be succint..... im a technical layman).

If you are also driven by the same ideals and goals, and truly believe that longevity and reward lies at truly putting the end user at the centre of each project, then we are on the same page. Let’s get in touch, put together a company, win these tenders and go from strength to strength.

Mr Benson

P.S - I am happy to go through FSA and criminal check verifications. I would expect the same level of transparency and commitment from my partners.

[Mike tells it like it is]

looks dangerously like the resume of a jack of all trades, master of none.

for the proposed £70k you could probably hire a decent developer with a bit of business know how and a business manager with a bit of technical know how

Sounds like avoid like the plague to me. Have you not notice dhow many of these sort of posts email addresses and forums get from China?

[internetspaceships]

"Educated to a degree level is a must?"

Yep, like that proves anything these days.

[Mike tells it like it is]

"Educated to a degree level is a must?"

Yep, like that proves anything these days.

In my day a degree was a degree...

In my day it was not possible to do a masters degree in street dance with basket weaving from the university of nowhere...

[Mr M Benson]

Is this, a heckling forum, Is your next stop the current affairs forum on Daily Mail?

as i said please pass me by.....

Mr Benson of Hanwell West London
(on t'other side of Ealing Broadway not Beijing )

[Mike tells it like it is]

Is this, a heckling forum, Is your next stop the current affairs forum on Daily Mail?

as i said please pass me by.....

Mr Benson of Hanwell West London
(on t'other side of Ealing Broadway not Beijing )

lol I see you are another person in denial about the sad sad state of this country.No doubt you still believe that our NHS and education system are the envy of the world.

Wake up comrade.

[Mr M Benson]

yes, as suspected heckling forum :)

some stats for you:

While public sector has taken a nose dive, private sector employment has risen 40% (ref the BBC)

can you smell the cofee comrade.

(for serious budding CTO's - michael.benson833 at gmail dot come)

[Mike tells it like it is]

yes, as suspected heckling forum :)

some stats for you:

While public sector has taken a nose dive, private sector employment has risen 40% (ref the BBC)

can you smell the cofee comrade.

(for serious budding CTO's - michael.benson833 at gmail dot come)

Has it heck...

Seriously you need to wake up mate.

[Mr M Benson]

i thought this was a business opportunity forum

good night.