Recent content by James Reckons

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    Can an adult open a business bank in their name for a minor?

    Funnily enough my bank wrote to me recently to say I'm paying business transactions into a personal account. I argued that whilst I'm a sole trader, how does the money paid in for work done differ to the money paid to bank staff into their personal account for their job done? They replied that...
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    Is it normal to lose 70% of Mailing List from GDPR

    It goes without saying that if original consent was to GDPR standards it won't be needed again. Furthermore, you've pointed out some exceptions but I don't believe that's the case for the vast majority of companies plaguing our inboxes in the last days. And that's the problem here, the media...
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    Is it normal to lose 70% of Mailing List from GDPR

    Yes I've heard this as well but it's not that accurate. Let me try and explain. 1. If companies are emailing us to ask us to 'opt-IN' they are using consent as their legal basis for processing. It's the only one of the 6 bases that requires opt-IN. 2. The definition of consent is different...
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    Is it normal to lose 70% of Mailing List from GDPR

    are all the companies bombarding us doing so unnecessarily? Although we may have already consented to receive emails from a company, GDPR has changed the definition of consent so if the original consent wasn't given to the same standard of the new definition, companies need re-consent (hence...
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    Is it normal to lose 70% of Mailing List from GDPR

    I think a lot of people are rightly annoyed with the bombardment in the last week and have found it all unmanageable. If we were such valued customers, businesses should have tried to get our GDPR re-permissions long before now! We've known about this for 2 years and plaguing our inboxes on the...
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    GDPR Concern

    To clarify, we need to establish (and tell our customers in a privacy policy) a ‘lawful basis’ to process their details. ‘Process’ means dealing with website/telephone/email/etc enquiries or bookings. However, it can also mean things that aren’t so obvious like doing our annual tax return or...
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    Lawful Basis For Processing - Who is responsible?

    I know this doesn't apply to random marketing. But there is a thing called 'soft opt-in' that we can use if we already have a business relationship. This means we can contact our customers outside of the sale, without explicit consent if - a - we obtained the customer's contact details in the...
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    Upscale vs Sole trader

    I'm in a dilemma. I do shows (magic/disco/comedy) for kids at birthdays, weddings, clubs etc. I get excellent feedback/reviews which means I can often sell my slots 5 x over. I refer all my spare work on to another guy and he pays me a referral fee but he's the only person I trust to do a...
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    Business Name - Kids Parties

    Definitely not set on the name. My process until now has been to brainstorm with friends and family most of whom have kids. I've also put it out to my Facebook pals. The two most popular choices were Purple Parties and Fresh Parties. Fresh was most popular. People who know me and know my...
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    Business Name - Kids Parties

    Of course buddy. I'm grateful of your suggestions :)
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    Business Name - Kids Parties

    It's decent of people to make suggestions but I don't like Anyweather at all. That doesn't even make my Z list :)
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    Business Name - Kids Parties

    Totally agree. THAT is exactly what I'm after :) Part of the reason for moving from my own name to a business name is I already have someone else involved. Now, the hard bit is finding that random word/phrase. Thanks for your continued help.
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    Business Name - Kids Parties

    I get where you're coming from but I'm not sure people think along them lines outside of a forum where you've been asked to offer comments. It's like Purple Parking - people don't think you can only use them if you have a purple car. And say, Orange network was never a company that only sold...
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    New member & loving it

    I only found this site yesterday and I'm already looking at the paid options. I like the idea of the top package because there's lots of extras. However I'm a bit confused with things that say you get a free year (online customer chat app was one example). If you renew the subs on UKBF am I to...
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    Business Name - Kids Parties

    Great idea Hazel! By the way as a female, what do you think of the name? Women are my main/target audience. I have done lots of brainstorming over the last 6 months. It's annoying because I'm not able to progress without the name, it's holding me back. My sister had a similar competition with...
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