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    Alternative to dropshipping?

    So as someone who's probably spent the last 10 months researching and trying to find a business model that is viable I've come to the conclusion that dropshipping is completely dead, unfortunately the likes of Alibaba & Aliexpress aren't great and personally if I was going to order something...
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    Excess Chocolate Brownie offcuts !!

    It might be worth having a chat to Yearsley Food who own XSell, they repackage broke, offcut, mishaped foods and sell in retail stores like Herons & B&M's. The only issue is there may not be enough offcuts for them to take. Also could be an option on the website where someone pays say £2.99...
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    Starting a beverage company

    Hi Harry, Good to hear from you and your future business idea, I like the idea of homemade beverages as a start up brand - Think about what you are going to package your drink in; now the safe option is probably to go with something like a plastic PET bottle with a closing cap but if you want...
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    Online clothing business with delivery?

    Probably best off seeing if you can get a sample from 10-20 places to check for the quality. I've heard some dodgy stories about the main companies that do it like off centre printing and poor quality. Try speaking with Icon Printing Ltd, they produce merch for a youtuber I follow and it looks...
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    Cafe/Sandwich Shop start up - Please Advice

    The catering industry at the moment is one of the toughest gigs due to constant competition and rising costs and it appears to only be getting worse. I opened my own Sandwich Shop at the start of 2020 and looking back now it was a total nightmare which lost me just over £30k. Finding an ideal...
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    Just a Hi from a failed businessman!

    Hi Jack, welcome to the forum! I feel like I'm pretty much in the same boat as you, I started my first business at 21 which ended up with me going bankrupt at 22, then I decided to venture into eBay, Amazon etc when the lockdown came but struggled to find stock and compete with other sellers...
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    Pizza Business - How to establish the most suitable type of service?

    Personally if it was me and I was located in London I'd look to start small and open a stand at the likes of BoxPark, Camden Market, Seven Dials Market etc. This way you can start up relatively cheap and test the market with your customers rather than spending upwards of £100-£200k. Your...
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    Looking at starting a soft play business

    If you are serious about opening a soft play centre, I would highly recommend watching James Sinclair Entrepreneur on YouTube and signing up for his 14 Day Free Trial Course where he breaks everything down. The one thing about soft play centres is they're not always going to be busy especially...
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    Take away / franchise

    Opening a takeaway nowadays is a huge uphill struggle and you'll find the hours creep up on you very fast. I opened a small takeaway in January 2020 and it was nothing but a nightmare when I look back, didn't help that Covid happened but ended up going £15k over budget due to unforseen...
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    Selling on Amazon FBA

    From what I've seen on a few FBA groups you're betting off doing retail arbitrage for stock, simply going round all the big stores for clearance items and then holding or sending off straight away for FBA to get the best potential. It's also good if you can do you own PL products like...
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    Question about startup loans

    I got a Virgin Start Up Loan of £10k about 4-5 years and wondered the same recently, issue is I had to go bankrupt myself so I'd probably get declined.
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    Best Epos system for a small convenience store?

    I had a Zettle Till when I had my business, all just runs from 1 iPad and connects to the drawer and printer. I bought mine from eBay pretty much brand new with the iPad for around £400.
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    Shop Closure - Fittings & Fixtures

    Might be worth messaging a few competitors in the area to see if they're interested in buying it, I did something similar years ago with a bakery I owned and managed to sell around 1/4 of the stock to them.
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    Refurbished Items on eBay

    You would need to upgrade your profile to shop and then eBay gives you the option to list items as refurbished. There's a good market in the refurbished sector, I work for a company who sells returned/refurbished stock on eBay and they're doing roughly around £3-4 million per year across 2...
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