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    Virtual Assistants

    Only you will know if it is a good price or not. You say in the month trial the results were encouraging. In what way ? the fact you had no missed calls or did it generate extra work for you business ? If it is the latter, and the extra work generated far exceeds the cost of £99 p/m then yes...
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    Advice on good inventory management software to use?

    A large manufacturing client of ours whose energy and various other contracts we manage were recently in the same position as you and approached us to find a solution. It was a relatively new area to us and a bit of a minefield but after a lot of research we suggested they went with...
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    How do buying groups make money?

    Its hard to offer advice without knowing the industry. Would be interested know what industry it is
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    Marketing analysis business idea

    It is around 90% Slightly different though because when we implement the changes we dont charge the client, we receive a commission from the new suppliers for the business we put their way, hence why we have a large conversion rate from our clients and none of it costs them any money. The...
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    Marketing analysis business idea

    This is what we do for our cost reduction services. We review their current outgoings on everything from Energy, telecoms, stationary etc and make recommendations on how and where to reduce costs. We offer this as a free service as a sort of a 'foot in the door' model and then make our money...
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    Create A4/A5 Flyers

    I would recommend canva.com. We've used it lots and has editable templates for everything from A4/A5 flyers to social media posts
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    Outsourcing Meetings

    The term 'meetings' can mean anything. Are you talking meetings with potential customers ? existing customers ? suppliers ? accountants ? staff ? If you mean with potential customers then there are plenty of self-employed sales agents which thousands of companies decide to use. Personally, I...
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    E-commerce website - but customers want to see physical product before buying

    Are the booths made to order or do you already have a few units in stock ? If you already have the stock could you not look to offer a few on say a 30 day sale or return or rent them out initially to some of the clients who have already expressed an interest ? This way you could get your...
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    Acting Manager not performing - what are our options?

    Have you worked/discussed with them why it isn't working as well as you'd expected ? Going to back to when this person was deputy, were they a good deputy ? well respected and good at their job ? Whilst I am not sure of the legalities of simply returning them to their previous position, you...
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    Calling all Local Service Business Owners

    What local service do you offer ?
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    UK sales publications/channels?

    I agree with point 3 from @WebshopMechanic that packaging these up into bitesize chunks and going down the online course route would be best for this kind of thing. Something like Udemy sprung straight to mind, then promote it through LinkedIn for further exposure.
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    Is there a list of banks who offer non-contactless cards?

    I've seen adverts as recently as today for Barclays advertising that you can freeze and un-freeze your card via the app - Could you not just freeze your cards until such a time that you need to use them ?
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    WhatsApp for Business

    I am being encouraged almost on a weekly basis at a networking event and from a couple of my clients to introduce WhatsApp in my business - I am yet to be convinced whether it is worth it Obviously the quickness of responding to questions, sharing files and video's etc would be the big...
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    Hello from West Sussex

    I am presuming it means exactly what it says - He consults on Office 365 and Sharepoint
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    Wishful thinking or Misrepresentation

    Whilst what you say does seem to be misrepresentation, I have to ask did you not do your own due diligence by speaking to other franchisee's and cross referencing their claimed sales with prices at the other existing sites ?