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Hmmm.... possibly the same people who are glued to Jeremy Kyle? 

BB may be good if they locked the candidates in a bunker... with the real potential for death at regular intervals... id be up for that...

Ditto... I'd watch football if each team had a sniper and the ball was guaranteed to explode at some point

"Now it's been a long time since we had a Centric Rant...  ”

Oh... I must do my best for you!

Busy isnt the word... busy is good

I think I need to start writing essays...;-)

I've been really absent from the forums... really sorry...

It's just been sooo busy, but, I'm going to try and make time to return... not because it's getting slower... (It's actually getting busier!).

Just in the process of finding more team members to join us... 

And busy... busy is good

Hello again ;-) 

Originally Posted by firstaid

“So thought I would post an update. I have finished college now and I am currently gathering market research in the form of an online anonymous survey. I tried posting the link on here but it didn't let me as it thought I was posting spam!  ”

When were you thinking of getting into the selling side?

There is a market and demand in everything. Businesses fail because the products aren't marketed properly (or at all) and the pitch is non existent. 

;-) Get to it ;-)

Get banner flags, and more little giveaway items and we're in business. Site is good. Nice work in progress ;-)
Oooh, and promote on this forum.... 
Your prices are good. ;-)

A simple safeguard would be using NI number against Directors, then giving each director a reference number against the quantity of companies they've liquidated (Over say 2).

Huge difference between a company not working, so you wind it up, and being on the seventh company doing the same thing, accumulating debt...

Incidentally...

Found your website, and love it...

Looking at placing a small order - proof this forum works.

Cold calls - Not a fan of it here... may have whinged about it once or twice on this forum...

The issue is, my phone line, which we pay for, including our 0800 number, is really cool. We offer a 24/7 service - and if no one is in the office, the duty mobile rings... costing us more.

When someone wants to sell us something, and we're paying for their pitch... it's not going to end well.

My advice is freebies if your business can afford it, create a hard mail list, and get stuff out. 

If this is just out of budget for you (due to postal costs), which is well understandable (We couldn't / wouldn't do it) then a great option is to pound the streets, again with freebies - like pens. It's a good foot in the door. Go in with a pitch like:

"Can I speak to the owner please?"
Gatekeeper: "No"
"That's a shame, we've got a free gift for him from our business"
Gatekeeper: "I'll get him / her now" or more likely "I'm the owner".

Then you can do your pitch.

It just so happens, I'm in the market and ready to make a purchase of promotional items right now. Do you have a website? SEO and all that stuff? (Look it up on this forum if you haven't looked into it in much detail yet).

I can well advise signing up to this forum, then you will be able to share your website, and pitch your business, and if the price is good.... and quality is there, I'm more than likely to be a customer as soon as I click online. ;-)

Not once changed a company name to rid debt. I can't think of anything more unethical and dirty is business. I'd sell my house and kidneys before I bluffed off suppliers invoices and staff wages! 

Reputation is part of the wheel of business.

Over my business life, I've made quite a few name changes to Limited companies, but, never anything that detracts from its original. 

I've gone from things like A&B Ltd to A&B Fruit Ltd. Often the change to better represent the business.

But, I've sort of stumbled into a community that regularly does change its names - and not for good reasons.

Take for example a shop not far from me that's just rebranded... the shop owner proudly told me he did it to escape some debt the business had built up.

HANG ON... I thought... the interior is the same, the stock is the same, you're the same... the only thing that's changed is your store name, and Ltd company details. A quick check showed me his existing Limited company had been liquidated, and guess what... he bought the stock for 1/8th of what he owed on it!

Although I'm not naive to think this doesn't occur, I was shocked with the frequency of it in this little location. 

The morale and ethical standing behind it is all wrong. That's not to say I've not been involved with a business that's turning sour - but, I've just binned it, after settling debts, and moved on to something new. That's led me to where we are now. If I didn't do that, I'd still be selling sweets on the black market I'd created in my high school... and being in detention for it...

But, how can someone get away with this? Laws aside, if a customer didn't pay me, and flipped their business, they'd be getting a personal visit from me for a one way chat. 

Anyone else seen or experienced something similar?