Recent content by Stephen Davies

  1. Stephen Davies

    Broken promise re salary.

    It's a very common practice unfortunately. Just make sure that you can get another job if you need to before you kick up a stink. Employers can be needlessly ruthless.
  2. Stephen Davies

    AAARGH - Suppliers (warning contains a rant).

    You think that's bad? Try working with one of the major sports shoe suppliers. We had a rep we nicknamed "slippery nick" because he was a smooth talking ******* who never delivered anything. You just ended up placing massive orders with him and begging for them to be delivered a month...
  3. Stephen Davies

    Getty images help please

    I'd have said I'd taken it from another website online, apologise saying that I didn't know they owned it and then remove it. Otherwise someone could build a fraudulent business on calling websites up and demanding that they'd used their images online (where everyone uses images from...
  4. Stephen Davies

    Competition Law

    I was in the same situation when I worked for a footwear retailer and then a hi fi retailer some years ago. You can either waste hours price matching and watching all of your competitors like a hawk and *****ing about them lowing their prices. Or you can focus your efforts on expanding the...
  5. Stephen Davies

    How to find a website designer / developer?

    You could always try http://www.webdeveloperjobs.co.uk/ Just did a search for 'web developer jobs in the UK' and it came up. So you can use Google search results to learn where the people you want to employ will visit.
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    Website cost in your experience?

    Best thing to do is find another website you like and say "I want that one"
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    Advice regarding recruitment agency

    Agreed. I think their Ts&Cs are ridiculous, although you should have checked these before doing business with them. I'd ask them for a replacement, because that makes everyone happy. They get to keep 100% of their commission and you get another worker. If not, just don't pay them and...
  8. Stephen Davies

    The Dreaded Valentines Day Cometh

    It's V-Day in a couple of days...and frankly I'd rather be spending it playing video games with my mates. But what have you got planned? I've already organised dinner, wine, chocolates and a card to appease my high maintenance girlfriend. But apparently I'm expected to buy an expensive...
  9. Stephen Davies

    Is anyone else's site rankings bouncing around?

    Some of my clients have been rejoicing one day, then panicking the next as their site rankings are all over the show at the moment. Has anyone else experienced this with their website lately? All my clients are in different niches.
  10. Stephen Davies

    Looking to buy a chip shop

    This is pure genius! :D That way you can learn everything from the shop floor in a month or two so you know what to do when you set up your chippie.
  11. Stephen Davies

    Contractor Calculator tool

    Just finished a little contractor calculator tool as a freebie as part of a pitch to a potential client. Thought I'd share in case any contractors/freelancers/consultants here needed it. Feedback welcome too. I'm sure I could make it better with some input from the people using it.
  12. Stephen Davies

    continual late payer, but we need the work...

    Usually this is early signs that a business is about to fold. I think you know what you need to do. You need to get out before they end up owing you too much money and try to get work elsewhere ASAP.
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    Customers - don't you just love them?!

    Customers are a law unto themselves. I often used to wonder how they were able to hold down jobs when they were so rude and irrational. Then I realised that people tend to vent at customer services people, because they can and that something in our culture has convinced them that the more...
  14. Stephen Davies

    When to pay staff weekly or monthly

    Monthly should help with your cashflow better :)
  15. Stephen Davies

    University Lectures

    Not knowing when the lectures are on springs to mind. Also, you could 'attend' for 3 years and still get no written paper qualification at the end. And from my experience, a university education is worthless. But the bit of paper you get at the end is worth a little bit. So it's...
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