Recent content by Scott@Tracto

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    Customers Turning Up Late

    As a consumer a 30minute time slot is not very good. You have to put yourself in the mind set of a customer. Me and my girlfriend recently had a cake and cupcakes made by a home bakery and unfortunately we were an hour late picking them up. Life happens and usually we need these lovely bakery...
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    Non Compete/Non-Solicitation

    Is this some form of IT services white label scheme? If so, I wouldn't worry if they are one of the big guns.
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    Online Accountants

    Thanks, I've sent you a PM.
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    Creating new relationships with main construction contractors.

    One thing I have learned in making sales is to be persistent. Very rarely will you get a response to a sales email if they haven't heard from you or built up some sort of relationship with them. Try your damnedest to get them on the phone and ask them if they got your email, take them out for a...
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    Creative ideas for a referral program?

    Can you afford to give a % of the sale to the customer doing the referral or give them money off their own service?
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    Buying decision maker contact details..

    Hi Guys, How have you got on with buying contact lists for decision makers for your market? I am considering doing this in addition to gathering my own contacts on LinkedIn and company websites so I can attempt to tell them more about my company and services we offer that may be beneficial to...
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    Cloud Accounting / Outsourcing

    Hey Ian, Always love hearing about other tech startups as one myself. What technologies are you using for hosted desktops? We are looking at using Citrix XenDesktop as our core product but I also have experience with VMWare View Horizon which is awesome but can work out to be very expensive in...
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    Content Management System which one do you use

    Are you saying Yoast is resource hungry on just the server side? How about running WP on it's own dedicated server that has PHP/Apache optimised, perhaps with NGINX/Varnish? I am running a site on WP at the moment and have many clients that do this but not sure what they use for SEO. I am...
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    Best small business bank account?

    Fantastic, thanks for recommending this.
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    Indie Record Label Business Model

    If you don't know much about the industry then it would definitely be a money pit. I've known lots of people start up their own labels or distros and failed.. although one really good one kicked off and they are taking a wage from it and working in it full time but it's hard work and you need...
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    SportsDirect & zero hours contracts

    With what deposit? And what about those rising house prices and the fact there ain't enough of them?
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    Best small business bank account?

    I'm just coming to the end of my free business banking with Bank of Scotland after 18 months and it's been great. Didn't require any loans though so no help with that I'm afraid. Are you putting any of your own money into the business?
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    Online Accountants

    I was given a false representation of the company which resulted in terrible response times or not even replying to queries via email, not returning calls, sloppy practices, incorrect information given, all this just left me in a constant state of worry so thought it best to end the relationship...
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    Online Accountants

    Thanks! I've flagged this for a mod to move.
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    Hello to all you lovely entrepreneurial people!

    Hi Guys I'm Scott and I'm posting here because, obviously, I am a newbie at UKBF! I currently own a business offering website hosting and consultancy services but I am launching a new venture in the IT managed services market. It's a market I have worked in as an employee for a long time now...
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