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    Seperating from a business partner

    You have to explain the situation in terms of only business. Suggest to either a.) Buy him out. b.) Get brought out yourself or c.) Sell the business. Business partners is such a strange one. I have 2 different ones on 2 separate businesses. One is great, amazing and I'm probably the one that...
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    Lead Generation Ideas?

    Bit of a generic answer. Linkedin aside, B2B marketing is not so good for social.
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    Lead Generation Ideas?

    Because this is on-page. Completely different to lead generation. I'd rather rank #1 for the few people that do look for an seo company in my area and get a steady stream of leads that way. But what I'm talking about on this thread is lead gen ideas.
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    Building up my lawn care business

    Totally agree. Make a simple website, do the basic on-page seo and create a Google business page and you should be there. Target your city/town and the surrounding suburbs, unless its a huge city you should be able to rank without any links.
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    Merchants for ecommerce adult store?

    Is there any reason why you can't use PayPal? I know the fees are annoying but the service is pretty good.
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    Lead Generation Ideas?

    Generally because business owners receive so much email spam from overseas companies they are already in a negative mindset when they hear the term "seo". Generally when marketing I try stay away from it as a result. About 50% of our current clients say they had a bad experience with a company...
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    Bike hire franchise????

    Had the idea of an uber style app for bike hire (back in the day) the main issue we ran into was the unit cost of the bikes were just too low. If someone wanted to rent a bike for a day they aren't going to pay more than a few quid (£20 max for a high quality road/mountain bike) + risks +...
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    Import From Poland

    Sucks but its true. If you're B2B VAT is usually less of an issue. But if you are B2C then it can have a decent hit on your margins!
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    Affiliate marketing software

    +1 for wordpress generally. Hook that up with a bulk uploader plugin and a good store theme + Woocommerce and you can probably get it all done it a day!
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    Terms and conditions for website

    Generally we just use T&C generators similar to what Antropy posted. Generally they are fine for everything you need unless you have a very specific business type.
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    Looking for advice for first online sale

    That's a solid start. I'll add a bit to the middle too: - Register your website on Search Engines: --- Create and verify your site through Google search console. --- Create a Google analytics account and verify. --- Same for Bing webmaster tools. - Business directories: --- Register to the...
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    Is Direct Marketing still efficient marketing ?

    It's hit and miss. We have run 2 campaigns. 1 of which netted 3 new clients totalling £2,300 a month. One of which made exactly £0. (same process too.) So depends how effectively you research your leads and how good you are at closing the leads too. Also as candles is such a wide generic...
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    Local Phone Numbers/Tracking calls

    Hi James, I'd say just go with the guy above or a site like soho66, that's who I use for about 10 numbers and its pretty easy to use and cheap too.
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    Lead Generation Ideas?

    Sure all makes sense and some good ideas. Inbound marketing is generally where we get most of our leads from, and its growing (all be it slowly) I was looking for something that I could do personally, or create that would add as a lead generation stream. Paid ads is an obvious one but wouldn't...
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    Moving my site to Woocommerce

    Hey, yes any change in URLs need to be redirected. What I thought you were asking is about the homepage. The problem with too many redirects is it gets slightly complicated to remember what points where. If you can then try to create the same URL structure (or at least improve it so it doesn't...
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