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    New chauffeur business

    why fork out the cash price for a merc when you could lease one and save yourself a fortune? leaving you with more working capital, especially at the beginning
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    Sole trader known as?

    do people need to know what you are? or are you self serving? I'm a limited company and my cards dont say director, just my name and contact numbers. people who deal with me know its me they need to speak to
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    Where should I advertise for sales people?

    again, for us gumtree has proved its weight in gold (you get 3x free adverts per account per year) I've found 3 staff from 1 gumtree advert and all 3 staff have been with me 17 months now (full time) gumtree will depend on what you are selling though, we are an industrial cleaning company so...
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    Van Hire Company startup

    simply put. you won't get the finance as you are a new company. when i first started citroen were humming and hawing over giving me 3 vans on lease as it was a new start company. Eventually got it on a 3+23 deal but it was tight.
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    Van Hire Company startup

    has your current employer given you even a hint of allowing you to do this? would be excellent if you went out and leased 200 vans on the basis of "it sounds like an easy start" going from 0 to 200 would theoretically wipe you out as you clearly don't have the experience or contacts
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    Building Contractor

    Because these things always sound good on paper, you up sell, then use cheaper labour to keep the price down and you pocket the change, simple. Its just never that easy, how good is your polish? you could turn up on site, and unless you are 100% sure you know what you are doing/talking about...
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    Building Contractor

    this has disaster written all over it to be honest
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    What Made You Start Your Own Business?

    went to study business at university. didnt like it and felt everything out of a textbook wasnt in touch with reality. set up my company 4 years ago, 2 years were breaking me in and the last 2 years there have been good for me. so essentially now i would probably just be graduating and trying...
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    Idea's for increasing business!

    There are a few tilers who live near me. They have large houses and from passing their house now and again - a fair few vans on the road also. Ive spoken with one of them and he is "in" with a house builder so he supplies tiling labour on building sites, i don't know if he stocks the tiles or...
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    Sub contract

    Do you have any pay slips from the contractor? It should show up on your tax code if you are only self employed
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    Which vehicles are more relevant to UKBF members?

    too generic to each company i'd say. I lease 3 vans, ive bought another 2 vans and i also have 1 merc on lease, one car bought outright.
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    Buying & Selling Cars

    the easier vehicles to sell are vans and commercials. couple of dents/rough around the interiors arent going to put as many people off. Try and sell a 4 year old peugeot and the new owner comes with a magnifying glass to inspect a used car.
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    Advertising budgets for business

    All of our work comes from the same 2 contracting companies (major house builders) We were introduced via a 3rd party to a surveyor who then got us a couple of sites to start with. By doing a good job we then progressed to the tendering of other up and coming sites. We are well known now and a...
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    Advertising budgets for business

    i spent £140 last year on embroidered uniforms, business cards and pens. Thats it. (construction cleaning company) with a T/O of 160k
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    How do i advertise my cleaning services for: landlords end of tenancy,offices,afterparty/event clean

    be prepared for some absolutely FILTHY properties in comparison to residential/office cleans. We have done End of Tenancy cleans and also builders cleans. At least the builders cleans are only dust/silicon and some soil dirt, the end of tenancy you could open a cupboard and the smell would...
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