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    I received a badly written email and decided to take a look at the website

    My gosh - try making an appointment as well :eek: Still a better effort than this cold call email I received regarding TV Advertising - this comes from London. The big pitch finished with: How bloody difficult is it to use spellcheck - or proof a bloody e-mail? XXX my replacement of their...
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    Lawrence Tomlinson report & RBS

    My story is a little different, but I believe RBS almost killed our company despite not banking with them. I'm still to this day fuming with their behaviour, and the fallout continues to this day. My company is in an industry where Merchant Accounts are critical - and very difficult to get...
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    Renegotiating Lease

    Thanks again Kirsty, That may well be the case with national retailers with massive spaces, but for Small / Medium Businesses probably less so. Thus you see this post on here for general advice (as opposed to being dealt with by our Surveyors / Solicitors - what are they :D!). I suppose we...
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    Renegotiating Lease

    We have 5 months - i've been abroad so couldn't take much further, although I have been looking at alternative properties. I havn't made a counteroffer yet. But I know that a couple of offices are handing in their notice over the next week or two - which I think would be a good time to make an...
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    Renegotiating Lease

    Thanks Kirsty, That's a really helpful constructive post. Whereas you make a valid point about soliciters and surveyors, this is a unit in a widely know small business unit organisation, so we took the view that this was unneccessary (maybe wrongly). We do have has security of tenure under...
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    Renegotiating Lease

    Just to rub things in, returned from holiday to discover a demand for Overspend Against Budget on Service Charges upto the year 31 March 2012. This totals over £500 :mad: I'll be digging out the terms of the lease - but - can they really come back to us and demand an extra £500 (which means...
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    Renegotiating Lease

    Thanks everyone! I've put a few feelers out, and just to emphasise we are not central London - certainly not a popular area, and the offices here have never been empty. I spoke to a couple of other tenants and the buildings manager who is furious. We're popular within the complex (namely as...
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    Renegotiating Lease

    I'll partly agree with that - that's why we moved our office from Shoreditch! But there is nothing about where we are now to justify the increase - especially as many units here remain empty - as they have been for the last 18 months! Our unit was empty for around 6 months before we moved in...
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    Renegotiating Lease

    That's what i'm thinking. I'm going to chat to couple of other offices and see what their experiences are. Unless they have interesting stories about rent increases, I anticipate: - Offer to continue on existing terms (with warning we will hand in notice) - When that's rejected, hand in notice...
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    Renegotiating Lease

    We have an office in a popular small business unit company in East London. Our lease is coming to an end - and they have offered a new lease - for a 44% increase!! We've never negotiated before as have leased off our investors and been happy. We're fine here, but I find that ridiculous. The...
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    PPC - is our budget sufficient to justify outside help?

    :| We are a travel company. Well, we're a Tour Operator. Why would we want 64 websites / domains? WHy would we want holiday companies paying us anything as they are our competitors? We don't need to do deals we have a team that contract directly overseas? I'm just wondering if you've got the...
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    PPC - is our budget sufficient to justify outside help?

    Thanks everyone, i'm going to start addressing next week. I will say that I have had some interesting messages - most completely and utterly irrelevant - almost amusingly so - I do wonder if some people read what I said before contacting me! (I have no issue with people e-mailing / PM'ing their...
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    PPC - is our budget sufficient to justify outside help?

    That's interesting. Baz, there are a few people (inc. those who have PM'd me) who I will drop a line to. The way that I see it is that obviously whoever has to do the work has to earn themselves a wage too. And we'll only hire / pay if they are doing a good job! But within our budget of circa...
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    PPC - is our budget sufficient to justify outside help?

    Thank you everyone. I appear to be in that 'middle ground' between getting specialists to run it and managing it outselves. My time would be far better used elsewhere. I will look at a couple of small PPC specialists and approach them for some figures, but my worry as someone mentioned, is the...
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    PPC - is our budget sufficient to justify outside help?

    We probably spend £8-10K a year on Google Adwords. This might ring a bell with a few of you, but 5 years ago before launching this business I was fairly well clued up, as well, it was part of my job. However, the market has changed massively in this time, and I just, well, cant keep up. The...
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