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    Mobile Application Question

    There are already plenty of offerings in the market doing this for small businesses. Heck even mobile coffee/snack vans have them now. What you *could* do though is find say the top 10 solution providers then see if they are on trustpilot and go through the 1 and 2 star reviews to see if there...
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    Meta crash

    Exactly my thinking. Second Life has been around for 2 decades and maybe it was ahead of its time but it never took off massively and just about exists for a niche that are into it. So Zuck had a peek into how viable something like this is. My own thoughts are he suffers from confirmation bias...
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    Electric Vehicle. Or are you a heathen?

    Didn't come to light that in fact if you take the cradle to grave of electric cars and all their parts its no greener than petrol or diesel anyway?
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    Is this worth pursuing

    I don't think they're *becoming* more mainstream, if anything they were a new thing quite a few years ago now and are less popular. That said I'd agree with one of the other posts that in a way they should be more popular now that smartphones have qr scan built into the camera rather than...
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    Directors Loan Accounts

    Wanted to resurrect this as I wanted to know what happens if you don't pay back before year end? Cant find anything online that mentions this. So my year end is Jan 31st, its now August so realistically will start repaying in September but using 9 month repayment I wont repay in full until May...
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    Starting an online appliance business with a difference

    John Lewis and Costco already do this. Next.
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    ****** discussion

    Yeah which dog though? :D :D :D My ****** advice is simple....buy low sell high. OK simple advice but not easy....
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    Looking For Expertise In Selling Software

    If its windows software as others have said you should be able to package it up as an installable executable. I used to write software in Delphi and used a free tool called inno setup which would create wizard based installers. Now you mention a SQL database and yes when you add dependancies it...
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    Goodbye Sift

    Ha brilliant, the good old days! I don't think its ever been the same since Sift took over, volume has increased and quality has declined. But hey everything changes I guess. Can't see it ever being like it was way back.
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    New idea - problem solver online tool

    Here is the thing. You don't need to *build* anything. Create a landing page with mock-ups of what it will do, send to traffic to it and see if there is any interest. Too many software companies spend months/years building something, get to the end and realise they are solving a non-existent...
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    Software company - the best way to get new Clients?

    As others have said pick a niche and/or create a product that fits that niche. I used to have a business doing bespoke software. It's hard because its intangible and the problem is that because you can create anything there is saying 'if your customer is everyone your customer is no-one'...
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    Getting the first sales Million Dollar website

    Just blatantly copying something (that was fresh 20 years ago) isn't a great plan. Why would anyone buy space on a site that has zero traffic?
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    Long Term Members

    Dont see much of Duane (previously of Kashflow) anymore. Steve (Gibson) the PPC guru isn't around much nor Ray (Tin). My activity was reasonably high but just got tired of it in recent years, just stick my head in occassionally.
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    Software development advice

    Look into Siemens circuit thats a hosted platform which may do what you need. Also there is Twilio which lets you do all sorts of things. Now both of these offerings have an API so whilst they may not do 100% of what you need if you are hiring a dev they aren't starting with a blank sheet of...
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    What is the best way to advertise an online business?

    As fisicx says its extremely hard (and pretty pointless) to try and sell 'development services'. Is there anything that you've built for a specific customer that you could 'productise' and therefore sell to similar businesses in the same vertical? I used to do bespoke software and I...
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