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    infringment of trademark brandsolut.co.uk

    Going off-topic briefly, be careful that you're not lulling yourself into a false sense of security when writing 'without prejudice': http://www.landlordlawblog.co.uk/2010/08/14/without-prejudice-what-does-it-mean/...
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    infringment of trademark brandsolut.co.uk

    I'd ignore it and see what happens after 14 days, I think they're trying to collect data by making it sound official ;) Brand enforcement departments budgets are typically stretched enough that they're not going to sic the lawyers on you for listing a few items, having them taken down, asking...
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    infringment of trademark brandsolut.co.uk

    I've worked in this area, specifically with regards to online auctions and removal of counterfeit items. In cases like this, the dead giveaway is often that the company don't actually manufacture such an item, and so *every* phone case is infringing on their trademark. Alternatively, as...
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    "Barter Schemes" or "virtual money" - Work for businesses?

    Reminds me of Beenz from the dot-com days: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beenz.com
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    UK Challenger for eBay & Amazon Announced?

    Why not? I agree that it'd be a fast way to get into a hell of lot of trouble *but* if the threat was credible, it'd be a quick one-off way to seriously hurt the threatening competition. It's unlikely any executives would go to jail, and the fine would be survivable. Honestly, though, I agree...
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    Bartering instead of paying?

    Sounds very similar to Affiliate Marketing; in effect, you send potential customers to a website, and in return they pay you a percentage of the income generated. Plenty of deals and offers for this stuff already out there, some of which might offer discounts to your clients. If you've ever...
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    UK Challenger for eBay & Amazon Announced?

    Hell of a market to get involved in: without products, no-one will visit; and without visitors, sellers won't want to list products. Especially difficult given the generic nature of this site. I still think that there's room for an eBay killer out there. However, with eBay's brand recognition...
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    Follow up calls / Emails

    Yep, totally agree - it's getting the basics right, but something that it seems too many people ignore. Also, if I add "Yep, I'm interested, send me an email in the meantime," DO then send me an email. There might be timewasters out there that sue that to try and get you off the phone, but...
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    Follow up calls / Emails

    As much as I was slightly affronted by what I considered such a pushy approach at the time, this has worked when I've been the client in the past. 20k server order, all because their salesman called back - exactly, at the right time, to the day - when I said I'd have the budget (and to be...
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    Where to sell my website?

    Exactly - how much money is coming in, and what're the margins? How many visitors are reaching you, and what's the conversion rate. How's that changing over time? How much of the above depends on your current marketing, and is there an existing plan that can be followed to maintain the above...
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    Marketing an app localisation service?

    As long as you're not sending mass mails indiscriminately, you're not spamming people :) That said, if it was me, I'd make a big spreadsheet of all the agencies and indie developers I could find, buy "cold calling for chickens," have a read and then start putting it into practise. The...
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    Adwords For Cleaning Companies

    If you're selling services rather than products, I'd say absolutely. If you were to send prospects to my IT consultancy, I'd be more than happy to pay you £500 for each one that becomes a new client.
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    Huge increase in Polish orders?

    On a side note, the UK's an interesting market for online ordering. Thanks to mail-order catalogues taking off earlier, we were already used to the concept of ordering stuff remotely, and so we really took to being able to do so via the internet. Other countries don't have this history - often...
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    Location for online business??

    PayPal is available in many, many countries worldwide. PayPal Website Payments Pro is limited to some territories, but you can still fully integrate basic PayPal support without very much hassle.
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    Open Source Solution for Buying and Selling Community

    My thinking is: this would be a really nice problem to have! :) Further, it's a problem you can throw manpower at until you do have a working, automatic solution. There probably is something open-source that you could hack together a rough solution out of, although I doubt it'd be ideal...
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