Recent content by 7Tom7

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    Generating work

    Could you offer your services to local garages who don't have a Auto Electricians, work as a free lancer around your local area?
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    Cutting out the middleman

    As others have said, if you post up the categories you require you may get more help.
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    Advertising on bicycle trailers...??

    I think you could make a little money form doing this but who will you approach to get the advertising? There are lots of fairly large (20-50 bike/rickshaw) outfits who will already have the contact with the advertising agents.
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    paying sub contractors

    For trades you will need to pay some of their tax unless they are registered. Google cis contractors scheme, I can’t post links.
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    B2B Commission-Only Sales Networks - do they work?

    There isn’t a straight forward answer to what the % range of commission will be. There are factors for both parties. From your point of view what is your margin on each sale, how much are you selling at the moment, how much capacity for growth do you have? From the sales persons point of...
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    b2b marketing,pubs and restaurants. please advice

    I would recommend looking for small 5-10 pub & restaurant chains that are local and looking for their buyer or procurement manger on LinkedIn and contacting them that way. The amount of work is the same as trying to sell to one pub or restaurant and the potential returns much greater.
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    Disaster recovery

    I would have thought that disaster recovery is a shrinking market as more people move to cloud based services.
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    A business proposal to sell products to hotel

    This, buyers are busy
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    I’ve inherited a 2000m2 warehouse!

    self storage seems to be a good earner here, not sure about France but could be an option.
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    Sales issues

    Long term I would try and develop your own website and learn or pay for SEO so people find you online. You could send an estimate or example of costs to people who don't reply, if its cheaper than they thought they might come back to you.
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    Sales issues

    First of all, imho, Yell is not worth it and is expensive compared to other online options. What % of leads are you converting to jobs, if you are getting between 10-20% I would say this is normal. To increase your conversion rate you could schedule time in the evening to call or message...
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    Is Plastering a good trade business to start?

    In my experience all trades are in short supply so yes it would be good. However if you are looking at which trade to train in heating engineers and electricians are paid more.
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    Suppliers - Plastic Food Container

    Hi, I've used these people before. My only association is as a customer. google r&r packaging (I can't post links yet) They have always been very helpful.
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    Taking digital handwritten notes for Word conversion?

    I use a product called livescribe. You use a special pen and paper and your notes are digitised. If you have neat handwriting it will auto transcript to word. Alternatively use livescribe and evernote so you can search for words in your hand written notes. I’ve been using livescribe for...
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    Almost taking the plunge into business.......

    Be careful that the person selling the business isn't going to take the best customers and start a new business. I got quite far down the line in potentially purchasing an electrical contracting business as an add on to an existing business. For various reasons I pulled out, a year or so later...
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