[mark_roberts]

Im going nearly 10 years and would hate to be starting from scratch in the current climate.

As mentioned you are running a business and that does take a certain amount of skill, talent, ability call it what you will but you need it.  Never before do you need a USP like you will need now because you need to pursuade people to spend and spend with you.

If I where you Id ride out the next 3-4 months and aim for the spring when things usually pick up under normal conditions.  Theres too many people who have wasted thousands of pounds in equipment listing to suppliers and then have failed.  Dont be one of them.

Mark

[Barry Livingstone]

Id do it with Offers and plenty of them have offers on all the time and the phone will call and for any CC at the mo its a must just to get the phone to ring.

Local papers ads with offers, leaflets with the same offoers and LOCAL website offering yip more offers

Paper no more than £50.00 per week website per week Very cheap and leaflet take time.... but work for some

[russell james]

plenty of offers , but try not to put prices on ads

[feldon]

Thanks for all your replies.  I'm not planning to start until April as I suspect it will be quite just after xmas, and I want to do as much planning and research as possible, take a couple of courses first, too make sure I actually like it! ok able to do it!  I have already had a test run at Alltech, although I will probably look to source equipment eslewhere, don't get me wrong nice kit but too far for me to get serviced and spare parts, also not sure of their business model, certainly not to fork out a few thousand on.

I know everyone has concerns at the moment with the credit crunch, but is everyone seeing a marked downturn in trade?

cheers

Richard

[russell james]

In theory yes, but most people are advertising/marketing more to make up for it

[derek west]

not me, i have no concerns, apart from when the fridge runs out of beer,
derek

[russell james]

thats my biggest concern, in fact my xmas stocks are staring to run out already

[clinton]

Dereks fridge

[derek west]

 
heaven.
derek

[clinton]

 

[russell james]

you would need a big bottle opener for that, well worth the effort of looking for one though