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    What is CIFC?

    Hi guys, I hope someone can shed some light on this. We have sent a quote for an international client with shipping as CIF They responded back that they want the shipping CIFC. I've searched Google and all what I can find that it's the same as CIF +commission... I am struggling to find...
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    Newbie needing help - suppliers

    You may need to check a website called salongeek.com . They are a group of professionals experienced in this domain and from what I see, there is few very good discussions running over there about Hair extension suppliers. One of the suppliers that I can see is Hairplanet.co.uk . But make sure...
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    Where to buy new office PCs and laptops?

    Cheers @Paul_Rosser . We'll keep that in mind to get onto company's suppliers list. Seems like its mainly about delivery and pricing aswell. We are investigating an option now for same day delivery but its going to be expensive as its a premium expensive service and needs an extensive realtime...
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    Is Amazon getting too big and think we can't survive without them?

    I think amazon's customer service is top-notch to be honest. Something to note that stuff sold on amazon, doesn't mean that its sold by amazon. It can be sold by third party but fulfiled by amazon. The good thing is amazon protect us that those people will certainly delivery what they said they...
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    Where to buy new office PCs and laptops?

    Thanks for that KM-Tiger ,, we would ask them to register a company name and company registration number. Which can feature giving them credit terms aswell depending on the credit history and history with us. May I ask then, as a business what would be the things that perhaps you have been...
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    Calculating Product Price Based on Profit Amount

    Yeah you are probably right, at first thought it may be useful to be in the same post for others to benefit from it since its all about pricing, but after posting it, it kinda looks like it should be a post on its own. didn't mean to hijack a post though.
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    What are the Best practice to calculate profit margin

    Hi All, I wanted to ask a question in relation to pricing. Basically we have various distributors that we deal with and we have developed an integration with there website where they send us our trade price and RRP. Now the products are in the range of 1000s, and they have many different...
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    Need a CRM - cannot find one that works for me

    I think you may want to go to Bitrix24.com . I think they have most of that , but not sure about the downloading contacts to your phone. But thy have an awesome app that you can track everything and even internal social media between your team so you can chat and talk to each other. Forgot to...
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    Calculating Product Price Based on Profit Amount

    Hi All, I wanted to ask a question in relation to pricing. Basically we have various distributors that we deal with and we have developed an integration with there website where they send us our trade price and RRP. Now the products are in the range of 1000s, and they have many different...
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    Where to buy new office PCs and laptops?

    Hi all, May I jump onto the topic if you dont mind and ask a short question since you are talking about where to buy IT stuff. We are in the process to launch a site that provide all it equipment for businesses, but we are thinking to make it only B2B. so you have to be a company to buy from...
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    Mobile responsive or App?

    Mobile responsive is not even an option now.. People searching and visiting your site to get some information of it, Not searching the app store to download your app to find information. Its all about how quickly the customer wants the information. Now, after doing mobile responsive, you...
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    Difficulty getting a bank account!

    I can't remember all the documents needed from the top of my head to be honest, But mainly it was 1. the director's proof of identification, and proof of their residential address (two forms were needed). Luckily first bank we banked with, I had my personal account with so they didn't need all...
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    Logos/Branding

    Look up for a designer friend and ask them to do for you a logo, or go to any of the freelancer websites that has been mentioned in the above posts. Honestly they do work if you want something done quickly. if you looking for something professional that is beyond a logo.. We normally call it...
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    Difficulty getting a bank account!

    Hi All, I'll drop my 2 cents about this. I'd banked with several banks when we started our company.. 1. To get up and running you can do two things. if you know someone from your local council, you can ask them to write for you an endorsement letter that you can give to the bank and tell them...
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    Difficulty getting a bank account!

    If its a limited company then yes, you just need to ring the bank and tell them that you want to add a new signatory. they will send you the required paperwork. you can also set previliges and restrictions to signatories. For instance you can say that either of you can withdraw money/write a...