Recent content by dave clayton photography

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    Matchmaker Marketing...who are they? help!

    i use gumtree for my adverts and get regular calls from a manchester based company all the time quite annoying n sometimes aggressive
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    The pink pound?

    humor and the internet dont do very well sadly i will take back what i said as i thought it was aimed in a sarcastic manner. i was aware it was an old thread but it had some relevance to what i was working on at the time and i know its bad etiquette to go digging up old threads so lets let it...
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    The pink pound?

    well it was still relevant to what i was looking and as per what appears to be normal for this forum some troll decided to come out the woodwork and come up with a ******** post
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    The pink pound?

    after doing the last 2 hours on research mode, the pink pound is a market that's worth tapping into from my point the market does not appear to be hugely over saturated so it looks well worth the effort
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    Plymouth Networking - 2nd June MOUNT WISE

    Images from the event are now online at http://www.daveclaytonphotography.co.uk/post/6170752992/the-braking-the-ice-cocktail-evening
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    leap of faith away from the job centre

    does this offer any advice to myself regards to the original topic no. And if you looked my site there is client work on there, work ive had in the papers, and work that has hung in galleries. ergo a lot of hours work so i dont take kindly to some keyboard warrior going on your post count...
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    leap of faith away from the job centre

    regards to wages a liveable amount can be drawn from the WTC and housing will cover the rent so minimal money will be taken out the business im looking at a year before i even think about taking money from it
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    leap of faith away from the job centre

    got a meeting with them next week so will see
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    leap of faith away from the job centre

    my basic plan is to register as self employed put a claim in for working tax credits thus giving me some sort of income to live on and put any money the business makes back into it. the main issue is any money even if it has been invested back causes me issues . even if i dont charge and and do...
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    leap of faith away from the job centre

    that blog is a mix of mainly personal projects and there is one or two projects ive done for clients on there. not based in Newquay any longer (thank god i hated the place) I've not had any issues from the clients so far regards to quality of work so yea i have the skill set to do the job
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    leap of faith away from the job centre

    thanks for the comment on the site much appreciated. i think i shall be signing off in the next few weeks just was looking to see if anyone had been here and done it
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    leap of faith away from the job centre

    Thats what i have been doing for the last few months and its all fair and good questioning if I'm fit to run a business but the end of the day no money = no food. Hence asking if people have been in this situation and what they did not questioning if i'm fit to run a business.
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    leap of faith away from the job centre

    ive gotta be honest one massive issue is they are well aware that im setting up a business, they have a paper trail to show this. yet im expected to go for any old job to forfill my job seekers agreement so that is rather futile a task and a tad frustrating from my point of view. My main issue...
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    leap of faith away from the job centre

    So the situation report so far, I've enlisted the help of the princes trust and another business mentor service for advice thats all going well. The main issue so far is the job centre, at the time being unemployed (newquay off season is dead) had its uses, to get me the initial help and advice...
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    Plymouth businesses - what, where? Network/Promote?

    message sent with contact info still awaiting your call