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    Leaflet Distribution - good or not?

    I used to deliver millions of leaflets nationally through a network of franchised cleaning agencies and it worked very well, until everyone started creating websites for cleaning agencies on the internet, and then householders no longer responded to the leaflets. So if the service can be quickly...
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    Local Service Business - Google ads

    yes we eventually got around to setting Adwords up so it could be monitored / tracked better, made no difference - no sales from the Adwords, the viewing requests are all organic visitors. We only spend about £10 a day just to keep it ticking over and bring the site some traffic. Maybe it helps...
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    Local Service Business - Google ads

    Just browsing and saw your query re Adwords. I have a site promoting a wedding venue and for years half the traffic was organic, half Adwords. My spend on Adwords about £12,000 a year I suppose, with the main spend in Jan and Feb which is when more people are looking for venues (having got...
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    Help! Crazy business idea!

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    Help! Crazy business idea!

    Bit confused as to the set-up. You are being asked to buy it off someone who went bankrupt and hire out a derelict building needing maintenance and a revamp/ restoration effort, to events, weddings etc, and to run dry and wet sales/ marketing/ service presumably yourself, with all the attendant...
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    As time goes by - better or worse?

    This morning my wife was saying it would be nice to go aboad and look at some volcanoes (because as anyone with young children knows, they are on the school curriculum at moment). I said it was unlikely we would travel this year, but we could probably go to Bridport (our nearest beach). We've...
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    Received a Letter from Burness Paull Threatening to pay for an image Copyright from PicRights..

    I can see this is a problem using overseas freelancers whom you do not have full contact details for or truly know, who may promise what you want to hear, but then cannot 'deliver'. I had a similar problem in the days before I designed my own websites when a former hotel owner who had done well...
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    How long will these anti Covid measures be req ? There's a bit of a trend here.....

    As I understand it Case Fatality Rate (CFR) and Infection Fatality Rate (IFR) are different things. CFR represents known cases with total deaths expressed as a percentge of known cases. IFR is an unknowable as we do not (without whole population testing), really know the true numbers infected...
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    What the benefits of Social Media Marketing - Explained!

    I never use facebook personally, it just does not appeal to me personally. But my clients and staff love it, along with all these other social media things I have never used. So they use it and we have as a company a few facebook pages in various niches (dogs, ghosts, weddings etc). COVID aside...
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    New Rules: Furlough Scheme to End Next Month but Business no where near ready to open?

    I cannot speak for other venues but for our part we have additional assets - various houses and a farm which are (currently) unmortgaged and rented out on long lets - so unlike a lot of businesses, even with current borrowing, and the CBIL loan, we are not highly leveraged overall. But the...
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    New Rules: Furlough Scheme to End Next Month but Business no where near ready to open?

    I think about 3 weddings out of 200 booked have given up and cancelled. A couple have had a small socially distanced Ceremony Only wedding with a handful of guests instead, and postponed the main 'wedding reception and party' a year or two forward. These couples will still have their full...
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    New Rules: Furlough Scheme to End Next Month but Business no where near ready to open?

    Not been on this forum for a while so I thought I would look for 'adaptations' and ideas where event businesses are adapting to the changed trading circumstances. At present it is very difficult as rules keep changing. I run a wedding venue and we have smaller events such as ghost tours on quiet...
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    Wedding Venue Leads

    Most Wedding Venues are likely to do as we do - namely search for the top ten or so Directory Websites on Google and advertise on those, then review every few months. Plus Google Adwords, facebook and the usual social media channels. No point being on a wedding directory website that is not on...
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    How to get high-quality links to website?

    Just been reading through all the posts on this thread in case anything startlingly original came up, but nothing much has, sadly. I earlier posted about 'web-rings' - a concept that is very old and which a former hotelier told me about, where he had local businesses refer and link to his hotel...
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    £10k to start a new business - help needed please

    Find something you like doing, that solves a problem people will pay you to solve. Use as little as possible of the £10k. Ideally something that uses a skill you already have. If you do not have any skills, get a job to gain the skills. In my first business I used several skills acquired from a...
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