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    Printing and costing

    How do you work out what it costs to print something? The costs of ink/toner more specifically. I'm looking at various options with regards to label printing and thought about doing it myself but I can't work out how to factor in the costs of the inks because some things will be on a white...
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    Accepting credit cards in person

    Well I can give them a call and ask them to call you so just need your details to put them in touch if you want? They may not meet your requirements but it might be worth the chat.
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    Accepting credit cards in person

    I think it was cardsave I went though. This was about 3 years ago so I can't remember the exact details but things to consider are- length of contract monthly rental fees for the machine (a roaming gprs machine will be more than a fixed line machine) minimum transaction fees (ideally zero -...
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    Accepting credit cards in person

    I use a portable gprs card machine which connects to the strongest mobile signal in any given area (this is a roaming one which I recommend). The reason I went for this type of machine over things like paypal is that apart from anything, I looks the part - being a "proper" card machine. The...
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    Increasing the number of shares in a company

    Ok this is beyond my knowledge but I presumably you don't necessarily need to issue new shares if the percentage ownership is being adjusted by whole numbers. By which I mean you currently have 100 shares totalling 100% (50% each) so if the newcomer is going to take on 10%, in order to keep you...
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    Increasing the number of shares in a company

    Pretty sure you can either issue more shares or sell existing shares. Either way companies house needs to be informed. Are they ordinary shares and do you want to sell these? Or do you want to issue a different class of shares for this person?
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    Best way to try get clients for mobile mechanics

    This is an excellent point. You want to state the positive - the years of experience not "I'm having a go at it". Be confident!
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    Best way to try get clients for mobile mechanics

    Hi Colin, This is really difficult. Your email is very long. People will not have the desire or the time to read it in its entirety, if at all, in my opinion. Could you try phoning? Or writing? Unfortunately this is going to be tough. Businesses will be used to cold calls - whatever the...
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    Food & VAT

    Many thanks for your reply. If all the products I sell are zero rates (which is likely to be the case) will it matter that every VAT return will be a refund (or nothing if I've made no purchases)? Also, as this is early days, it is unlikely that within the first (several) VAT periods, there...
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    Food & VAT

    I have only ever run small businesses under the VAT threshold so have never completed a VAT return and for these particular businesses, it has not made sense to register voluntarily. However... I am in the process of setting up a food business which produces frozen foods/meals and am under the...
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    Help choosing a name for my new business

    In my opinion the name is not overly important. It's the branding and reputation that is. There are so many companies where the name means nothing. Ocado was a made up word for example and doesn't mean food or supermarket. It needs to be fairly short and easy to pronounce & spell. I do however...
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    After some advice please...

    That's exactly how I work - if it seems like a good idea then it's worth doing the research. What is your blog? can you PM it? (or post it here of course!) I think a coffee shop would be hard work both financially and with regards to time commitments. That's not a bad thing of course but I...
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    After some advice please...

    I would imagine that a café would be a full time job+. Open 7 days a week and long hours. Would you have time and energy to work on the side? I love the idea however but know very little about this particular business - other than buying the odd coffee! Other things to work out are your...
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    After some advice please...

    There are lots of things to consider and there will be financial commitments. For example Premises (lease terms, rents, business rates, utilities, alarms, phones etc.) Insurances Kitting it out (shop/café fittings - furniture, equipment - including specialist machines, décor etc.) Are you...
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    Business Structure

    This will be very part time to begin with and we will all have parts to play but not equally in terms of time. So we would like to be able to pay extra to those who have put in more time (once we actually make money). There will be no set work times. I was thinking about different share...
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