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    Postage question - How are they doing it?

    Don't be fooled into thinking that they are doing well, we compete against a number of companies that lose money each year. In fact one made a profit the other year for the first time and they were celebrating, they then lost money again the following year. The reason they can do this is that...
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    Postage question - How are they doing it?

    Turnover is vanity, profit is sanity! There are a large number of retailers that have such a vast product range that they cannot keep track of prices easily. We have 6,000 lines and if we have the wrong cost price on the system then we could easily sell at a loss and we pay less attention to...
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    How has the weather hit your business?

    Interesting that your business is in Derby and you do flyer distribution. We have a new showroom in burton that we may want to advertise via flyer around Burton and Derby. We also have a shop in Barton under needwood that we are closing down that we could do a flyer distribution for. I will...
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    Does my company name offend you?

    I'd be worried about the type of customer that might find your site! The name itself is innocent, anybody that does get offended is clearly taking the name in the wrong way. It's an innocent name as your site is about grooming. I don't thing anybody would have any cause to complain. I am not...
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    Does my company name offend you?

    I'd be worried about the type of customer that might find your site! The name itself is innocent, anybody that does get offended is clearly taking the name in the wrong way. It's an innocent name as your site is about grooming. I don't thing anybody would have any cause to complain. I am...
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    How has the weather hit your business?

    Yes, that sounds like an option, but that was covered by option 1.
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    How has the weather hit your business?

    From the lack of responses I can only assume the following:- 1) Not many peope reading the forum today run a business OR 2) You do run a business but it hasn't made any difference OR 3) You don't wish to share the information as it's private I would really love to hear some feed back.
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    How has the weather hit your business?

    It was only a week or so ago when the papers were saying that May could be the coldest for 100 years. I think this an exaggeration, but again we will have to see what comes. The 10 day forecast looks mixed. Coldest May in 100 Years from the Telegraph I have heard from a number of sources...
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    How has the weather hit your business?

    I am interested to hear from others as to how the weather has impacted business. Has anybody actually benefitted from the wet weather in April? It has been challenging for us at garden4less, the sales are down nearly 40% for the month of April but the key thing is that retailers still have...
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    Tesco takes on Amazon to sell online

    Because we sell in volume at this time of year to clear. We have sold nearly 2,000 packs in three days. I very much doubt Crocus have sold over 100 packs in the same period, but they will probably have made the same profit. The big difference is we will have paid no advertising at all. We get...
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    Tesco takes on Amazon to sell online

    One of the first two companies to use this new Tesco Direct Marketplace is one of our competitors, but we use this term loosely as we are probably not after the same customers even though we sell some of the same products. They tend to sell all their products at full retail and then use many...
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    Cold Calling is Costly!

    We have had three calls since I started this post a few minutes ago. One said she spoke to me yesterday. Liar!!
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    Regional Growth Fund

    We recently received funding from the government through the RBS bank. A few years ago we purchased our main warehouse and we expanded quicker than cashflow would really allow. We then ran out of space and started renting the unit next to us on a short term lease. However as the lease came...
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    Cold Calling is Costly!

    I have just registered. So fingers crossed the calls will slow down or even stop!
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    Cold Calling is Costly!

    That is great. Does it really work?
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