Recent content by Mark Tindale

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    Potentially selling my business (please help)

    I went into partnership after knowing him for a lot of years. It has not been working for me lately, so i decided to sell up, which John was going to buy it. Then all of a sudden some other guy is/has bought him out. Its just become a massive worry, i definately need some legal advice ASAP.
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    Potentially selling my business (please help)

    That did cross my mind, but would probably make the company unworkable as we need to post out every day. I hate to think what would happen if I do that, but then again also what may happen if I don't.
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    Potentially selling my business (please help)

    The stock has not gone yet, but I think he's taking it next week. This has all come about this week. I was not even given the buyers full name. I run the sales side on the website and ebay, which I now do from home. As the bank account was opened jointly, I dont think I can be removed...
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    Potentially selling my business (please help)

    Thanks for the reply. As far as I am aware we didn't have any agreement drawn up, we got the accountant to open the ltd company, and that was that. We basically started this up as something to do in our spare time, so didn't take it too seriously, and have not taken any legal advice along the...
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    Potentially selling my business (please help)

    I have a number of questions regarding selling my share of a small business, I would much appreciate any advice, as I am currently very worried. My business partner has just sold his 50% of our small business. Of which I was not told anything about the buyer or the deal, Is it normal that I...
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    Website SEO Help

    Thank you everyone for all the replies and help. I especially wanted to say a big Thanks to 'Tin' Ray Field from FreshBananas.co.uk Ray got in touch with me on here offering some free help and advice, to which at first I was a little reluctant to accept. After all it's a rarity to be offered...
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    Website SEO Help

    Thanks for the comments everyone. I've started doing a lot of the meta tag titles, descriptions, keywords myself. I'm guessing to get someone to do this on 400 product pages and 360 category pages would cost a fortune as it's very time consuming. Most of these were blank, as I didn't know...
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    Website SEO Help

    Thanks for the reply Darren, I tried to contact someone locally, they did'nt seem interested, and wanted to pass me on to some google partner guy for £800 per month.
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    Website SEO Help

    Hi I'm looking into getting some help with my website SEO. I've had a 'mess around' with it myself, but its beyond me. I get 95% of sales through ebay and Facebook, and would like to bring in more business through the website. My question is, who are the best people to help me with this? Any...
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    Vat & General Advice

    Hi I'm looking for some vat help.... My business partner has a ltd company (Company A)that is a sub contract cnc machine shop. He is vat registered. Me and him have a separate ltd company (Company B) making our own motorcycle parts. We are not vat registered. Currently Company A pays for...
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    New Company Retail/Distribution Help.

    Hi We are a relatively new UK company, manufacturing motorcycle products and selling online on ebay and our website. I am looking for some advice with regards to how best get our products on the market worldwide. We are pretty much an unknown company to most people, but our parts are decent...
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    Start Up Advice

    Thanks for the advice everyone. It seems as though going vat registered is not as scary as I first thought. @Gordon - Commercial Finance When I speak about competitors, I'm really talking about British, German and American companies. I cannot compete with the Chinese price wise, but...
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    Start Up Vat Help

    Hi I'm looking for some advice. We are a new start up and we have set up as a ltd company. I expect our first year turnover to be between 70k-100k, we are not yet set up for vat. Am I right in thinking we don't have to do this until we hit the vat threshold of 85k? I know very little about...
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    Start Up Advice

    Hi I'm looking for some advice. We are a new start up and we have set up as a ltd company. I expect our first year turnover to be between 70k-100k, we are not yet set up for vat. Am I right in thinking we don't have to do this until we hit the vat threshold of 85k? I know very little about...