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    advice on setting up a mobile vet clinic

    Wow £250 for a pts, that's a scary price, I mentioned it to my other half and she worked out the only way to get the price up that amount was if you asked for your cat to be induvidually cremeted with the ashes returned in a urn or box. back on topic, I had thought about the landrover type...
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    advice on setting up a mobile vet clinic

    My wife and I looked into this idea not long ago, we were looking at ex-army ambulances, with generator in back. (I wanted a tracked amoured personel carrier but my idea was shot down in favour of a Land Rover). In the end we decided not to go ahead as a very good job turned up instead. My wife...
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    Ship Chandlers...

    Hi Chris First off what type of Chandlers are you talking about, yacht/boaties or commercial, big differance in the operations and scale. I work with a couple of companies in the commercial side and we are talking cut-throat. Take a look at the big fish - Kelvin Hughes, DPM and Thomas Gunn...
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    When you started your business.......

    Computers/software/websites, then quite a bit on marketing and PR. I think I worked it out as 50/50. Oh I also made sure I had about 3 month's money in the bank to live on.
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    Job Opportunities for 27yr old.

    If your interested I'm always on the look out for freelance commision only sales people. It's Business to Business and would really only run up to Christmas (I create a line of corperate giveaway calendars) but if your willing to put some effort into it you could make some money. Your location...
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    Pets in the Workplace - friends or foes?

    I work from a shed at the bottom of the garden and so the issue of taking the dogs to work or not doen't come up, but in my previous job my wife was in Hospital for an extended period and my boss allowed me to bring my dog into the office. It was great, even the staff who didn't like dogs were...
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    Ladies, guy working in ladies clothes shop?

    A long time ago, in my youth, I worked in the Ladies fashion dept of a large high street store, Handbags and tights (I'm not gay, I didn't even think about it, work is work) best job I ever had, one bloke (me) and 33 woman. Anyway I was rushed off my feet helping customers with their buys. It...
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    Need digital printers "Help"

    I need help from a printer please, I've tried doing a job in house but I'm just going through Toner like theres no tomorrow and I can't do Lamentation. Spec for job, Part 1 Quantity - 55 Colours - 4 colour (CMYK), single sided Weight - 350 gsm, gloss Size - A4 Finished - Laminated Part 2...
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    Sales agents/Sales agency

    Hate to say this, I just had to shut down an idea for selling advertising to businesses, I was offering 50% commission to the agents and suppling a full agents pack (business cards, email account, samples etc..) the problems were 1. The market at the moment is full, nobody wants to spend money...
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    Wacky crazy ideas needed

    How about a large main battle tank (you can get them from tanksforsale), I want to take one for a weekly shop to Tesco's or to pick kids up from school or how about a fire engine, the Disposal Services Authority has them for sale £3500
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    England, World Cup & Business?

    I tried marketing a promotional football world cup wall chart/map before the last world cup. The wall map was B1 (1000mm x 707mm) in size and had the full draw, strips, times etc.. plus I had a map of the world showing where all the treams came from along with there national flag. I got no...
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    How far do I go with for an Ex-client

    Hi, thanks for all the great advice, one of the problems of working for yourself is the only people you really get advice from are the dogs, and "bite them" is not that useful in the business world. Anyway there was no contract with them, everything was done through purchase orders. Also when I...
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    How far do I go with for an Ex-client

    Hi all, need a bit of advice. I've just lost a contract, drawing maps/plans, with a large client (purchasing department sends out quote to multiple supplies and everyone has to come back with best price). I've been working with/for them for the last 3 years and we had a provisional meeting...
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    Fax Marketing? What is your reaction

    My Fax runs all the time, my wifes a vet and gets all her blood reports etc.. sent through to my fax, nothing angers me more than finding that I've run out of ink/paper again because of someone offering "business mobile phones" or "car rental" arghhh
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    Doing my dissertation, can anyone spare some time for an interview?

    No problem if you want an 20-30 min interview, give me a phone call, I'll PM you my details
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