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tahir
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jema Downsizer Moderator
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2steps
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Penny Outskirts
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Posted: Sun Nov 26, 06 2:36 pm Post subject: |
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Does it in some way depend on how much you want it?
When we started up, it was and had been for some years, our total overriding aim to have our own business, to not work for others, to be the boss and in charge of our destiny.
That came before ANYTHING else, and I mean anything. We don't now own a house, I don't have a 50k income with company car etc etc, we don't do holidays to disney or whatever, the children don't have the latest "things", but we've achieved our goal.
With any business you should always start with a good, realistic business plan. If that seems to work, then it's up to you to go for it, or not. There is no guarantee of success. |
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2steps
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jema Downsizer Moderator
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MarkS
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MarkS
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Rosa
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MarkS
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Penny Outskirts
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Posted: Sun Nov 26, 06 4:33 pm Post subject: |
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How did you start then? Did you go straight to having a shop? or with a web site ? Or on an industrial unit?
Do you sell mainly to business or to the public? How did you advertise? |
Cor - huge questions, but with a simple answer - we had an idea, then we wrote a business plan to see if it was possible.
It was, so we looked around for the amount of money we needed to start up. Because we'd decided to go with the shop, we needed a lot of money, but we had an endowment policy that was just sitting there worth a bit, we sold our house,moved into rental accomodation, and used a bit of the proceeds....
The vast majority of our sales are to the public, and our shop is our advertising..we've never really done anything else.
But if you do one thing before you start - write a Business Plan. More than happy to help anyone who wants to do one - I used to teach it ..
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Rosa
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dpack
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jema Downsizer Moderator
Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 28235 Location: escaped from Swindon
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2steps
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