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    Average customer figures for a cafe

    I don't see how anyone can tell you how many customers you'll get in your cafe on any particular day. One cafe in a street can be jammed full whereas another, only 50 metres away, can be nearly empty. We have this in our local High Street. Go and sit in a few, one's in similar areas to where...
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    Does anybody advertise with Yell.com anymore?

    I'm not 100% convinced by Checkatrade (and I assume the other sites mentioned are the same). Looked recently for a builder, electrician and plumber locally and was surprised, no amazed would be more correct, that every tradesman on the site was rated 9.8 or above. Now, either we are really...
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    £100k deposit into my Current Acc,

    I'm finding this a little bit odd. Why are you calling it a 'gift', and who would 'gift' a business £100,000? If it's an investment in the business then you need to treat it as such. But saying someone will simply 'give' you £100k will start rather loud alarm bells ringing. Why are you so...
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    Opening a publishing company

    To be honest, all you've done is criticise the previous two posters without giving any advice to the OP. Berlec asked what equipment he needed to print in one colour and how much it cost. With 12 years experience, could you help him with that? Maybe you could explain to him the difference...
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    Hobbyist stealing customers :-/

    And when the next person comes along doing exactly the same thing, working from their front room, what do you advise the OP to do then? Phone them up too and ask them to stop? And the next after that, and the one after that, etc etc. Surely it gets to the point that you must realise it's futile...
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    When do you consider your business being successful?

    Running out of time for what?
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    Anyone here run an online forum before?

    Yes, but when you say 'we're all here', it made me look at the figures at the top of the page showing how many are currently using the forum: Members: 11 Guests: 290 Robots: 103 Ok, this might be a quiet time, but that's not many.
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    If I have an idea and a lot of energy, but

    And how will you repay the people who invest if you don't make money or make a loss? It's naive to think that you can make money on everything you buy and sell, you have to make allowances for the fact that some items wont sell quickly and some not at all. As you're already struggling...
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    Can companies use "i" in front of their company names?

    But why would you want to use a small i at the beginning of your app name? The only reason I can think of is that you want it to be associated with Apple - and that will obviously create a problem, for instance if people mistakenly assume the app is something to do with Apple or maybe endorsed...
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    MY BUISNESS PARTNER IS HAVING A BABY

    Surely that's contradictory? Or is it ok for her to hold a grudge after the event but not the op? And, yes, even in this day and age, someone going off on maternity leave for up to a year can have an enormous effect on a small company. It needs to be discussed and planned for - and that means...
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    Advice sought for how to approach offline businesses with my service

    For £20 a month you're going to offer to advise people on how to market their business, yet you've come on here to ask advice on how to market your business? That seems a touch ironic, or have I missed something?
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    Struggling to get customers for my new business....

    I have to say, and I admit I'm not an expert, but I probably wouldn't have opened up a music school in it's own premises to start with. Having two kids at school, I know that schools do employ music teachers to come into school and teach a variety of instruments - they have guitar lessons...
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    doubledecker bus buisnes

    Sell the house, live in the bus. Win-win all round.
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    HMRC determined to drive my into the gutter !

    I don't get this...you say you're solvent, you're starting another business, your wife has an income, yet you wont ring up HMRC and sort out the £6k you owe them from your last business? This isn't going to go away. Pick up the phone and talk to them. Going to your MP or newspapers etc isn't...
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    11 years trading, now failing, why?

    You have a turnover of £150k and a nett profit of £25k - £30k? I don't know what margins you expect in fencing, but is that so bad? You're paying your bills, mortgage etc but have to put money back in sometimes - surely this is a cashflow issue (buying in materials for example, I presume) as...
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