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    New unigue business opportunity?

    Getting back to the original post. All the guy wants to do, or so it seems is test the water as cheap as possible. To go door to door with this you are going to need some good quality printed material and be a half decent salesperson. If Dan had either of these he wouldn't be posting on here...
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    New unigue business opportunity?

    They make a success of it because they are branded household names. Like it or not when they come to your door you know what sort of service, product etc you are going to get. The market has been saturated with their advertising message for years. But like all ads the brain tunes out when you...
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    New unigue business opportunity?

    I'm not completely disputing how door to door is beneficial, but how I interpreted the original post, was that Dan wanted to throw out a few feelers to see if it would be maybe a long term goer, he also sounds, I'm presuming here, like he has no experience in marketing, in which case having...
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    New unigue business opportunity?

    Yes but the man from the Pru, the double glazing and conservatories salesman all had the credibility of a known company behind them. No matter how good your pitch and your brochures maybe, if you're straight off the street, trying to sell big ticket items you will fail more than succeed if...
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    New unigue business opportunity?

    You're talking about companies like double glazing firms that have some sort of local branding clout. If this was window or carpet cleaning door to door would be great, but something as expensive and apparently unique as this driveway face lift, I don't think would work in the short term, not...
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    New unigue business opportunity?

    Ok so forget Geocities. You could do the same though with a blog from Blogger.com. You can strip the templates to look like a web page. Yes hosting is cheap, I know I sell it, the idea of the free bit is not to be lumbered with a domain name and hosting you won't use if the scheme doesn't come...
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    Have I done the right thing?

    No offence mate but once bitten twice shy comes to mind. If you had to chase £150, and it cost you to get it, then he ain't worth doing business with, he definateley wouldn't of got me in that situation again.
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    New unigue business opportunity?

    Hi Dan I take it this is a new startup, and you want to offer this up on it's own, rather than add this to an existing, say landscaping business. To do this with as little outlay as possible, you could try the following. Build yourself a free website with someone like Yahoo's Geocities...
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    Information on Patenting needed.

    Before you go anywhere near a patent official you need to do some research. Patents are expensive, and there's no saying that your idea is anymore than an idea. It will be cheaper to go to a solicitor and get them to draw up a non disclosure contract that will protect you, then go and see...
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