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    Non paying customer - advice

    Hi Minnie123 Sorry to hear this. It's gonna be a bumpy ride I suspect. There's a few things from your post that I would pick up on. 1) Firstly you say that there were a list of complaints and you responded to each one with solutions. Are you happy that none of these grievances should result...
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    Virgin Media Price Hikes - Unfair Contract Term?

    I understand that some contracts can seem unfair but have a read through this and see whether you feel the price increase clause means it's unfair in law https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/284426/oft311.pdf I did study business law and contract law as...
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    Has My Accountant Ripped Me Off?

    "Rip off" is based on perception so my question would be whether you were expecting X amount of hours at X rate plus the annual return fee. You could ask for a breakdown of hours if it's time based. Otherwise shop around :)
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    Advice on insolvency and being personally held liable?

    Can you challenge the world pay charge backs?
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    Best place for market size high level data?

    Hi, I'm currently doing some market research for myself (there's a change!) and am used to working with companies house data to get into detailed numbers of companies by location, industry, turnover. The bit of work I need to do at the moment is just to determine a market size by industry...
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    Yay - back to school!

    There's more traffic on the roads so longer to get to work but people seem to be back in the office to have conversations with so that's nice :) Nice to get back to having proper meetings without juggling holiday/childcare and work cover. Treated myself to some new coffee in the office, so...
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    Client not paying up

    What action have you taken already? Is it Business to Business or Business to Consumer? What type of product or service is it for? How old is it?
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    General help for a newbie please :)

    Leaflets should work pretty well for you and would probably perform better than a lot of other marketing activity as they catch people with your message before they have gone as far as searching online. It's the opportunity aspect and a prompt to do something that they hadn't really thought much...
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    Can anyone recommend a good ( low cost) call answering service?

    *waves at everyone* ... see signature below :) lot of happy ukbf clients
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    short term employment, unknown hours - zero hours contract?

    Hi Your not supposed to use someone as a 'contractor' or 'self employed' or 'freelance' (whichever words you use) if they are working as an employee would. By this I mean that they only work for you, to a job description, hours dictated by you, etc. There's an assessment/calculator thingy on...
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    Do you think Telemarketing is Dead?

    I had an email today addressed to me by name at my info@ address that said "I'm emailing you instead of cold calling you as let's face it, we all hate those annoying calls" Now, what kind of plonker sends that to someone who runs a telemarketing company ?!! (It was a uk web design company) So...
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    Facebook page as votes

    I'm canvassing for Facebook votes for a dance competition! My daughter got through to semi finals for a competition called 'Stand Out' and now Facebook fan pages have popped up and we all have to get votes If, during the next round, if they find themselves in the bottom 3 then their Facebook...
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    How do I start as freelance telemarketer?

    Not sure this makes much sense? Why would you want to market yourself in a cheap environment? :)
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    Cold Calling 2.0 - Lead Generation (Outbound)

    Hi You should be able to buy a low cost / small data list for about £20 or so (pm if I can help directly) and from this you can call and ask who to send an email to related to the product you want to introduce good luck :)
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    has anyone used a telesales company?

    what about putting onto your ukbf blog and then link to it from the thread?
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