Is this not hard to do this? I mean to get a client base?
What do you do for a living?
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Is this not hard to do this? I mean to get a client base?
Use your existing network (friends and families) to use you and to spread your name around. Then take every other opportunity to advertise (eg posters in supermarkets, flyers etc).
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A mixture of management consultancy, project management and LEAN/Continuous Improvement/Business Improvement management.
I guess...Shame I have no decent papers behind me or anything.
Sales / Internal Sales / Sales Manager / Account Manager - call me as you wish I do not have an official title and this doesn't bother me one bit!
It is basically me in the office pricing, selling, looking after customers & 1 out on the road. Working for a stretch film converter with a turnover of around £7million.
Work is good, products are actually interesting and you get to talk to some really nice people...I do enjoy my job, looking to do some open university in Business Management or something just to help later on in life.
It is suprising how tired you really get, the brain gets a work out most of the day number crunching and problem solving!
It is basically me in the office pricing, selling, looking after customers & 1 out on the road. Working for a stretch film converter with a turnover of around £7million.
Work is good, products are actually interesting and you get to talk to some really nice people...I do enjoy my job, looking to do some open university in Business Management or something just to help later on in life.
It is suprising how tired you really get, the brain gets a work out most of the day number crunching and problem solving!
Awesome job.
Building Services Engineer - Soon to be sub-sea installation engineer.
E-mail being composed to you as we speak, coming from the same background and aiming for O&G!
KaHn, wasn't successful down SW London way but have a Telephone interview in the next few days from a company in Aberdeen
Don't let that stop you. Most people who will be using you will have no idea what is what. The people that do won't be using you anyway.
Get some good presentations setup (nicely laid out posters, cards etc), a decently made website and you're set.
Offer a no repair, no pay process, so you can filter out all the time consuming crap and just focus on the quick and easy fixes.
Possibly if the trust is built up, offer a full repair service whereas instead of just diagnosing hardware faults, you can offer to buy in the replacement parts.
Software is a lot easier though, less hassle from people in the long run.
Don't let that stop you. Most people who will be using you will have no idea what is what. The people that do won't be using you anyway.
Get some good presentations setup (nicely laid out posters, cards etc), a decently made website and you're set.
Offer a no repair, no pay process, so you can filter out all the time consuming crap and just focus on the quick and easy fixes.
Possibly if the trust is built up, offer a full repair service whereas instead of just diagnosing hardware faults, you can offer to buy in the replacement parts.
Software is a lot easier though, less hassle from people in the long run.
Aye, it's doing it though sadly
......That and i'm crap with pricing / selling / speccing 
E-mail being composed to you as we speak, coming from the same background and aiming for O&G!
KaHn, wasn't successful down SW London way but have a Telephone interview in the next few days from a company in Aberdeen
Good luck! Don't get confused by my change in username
Not really, 99% of my work is from word of mouth. I started with a pal around 5 years ago when we were at college together and went from there although I now work on my own.
Wont make me a millionaire but keeps the wolf from the door (although sometimes he can be seen lurking at the garden gate !), hence I work part time as well to give me a guaranteed source on income.
Aye, it's doing it though sadly
Make it an aim of 2011 then. Use this as an opportunity to further yourself, you'll only look back not forward if you don't.
So what if it dosen't work out? What have you REALLY lost? The time you could have used to play some rubbish game, eaten some crap takeway, watched meaningless TV etc.
Do you research in the area, see what the going prices are, cut them by 10% and keep them in your "free hours".
Postman as of 2 weeks ago, don't mind it so much at the moment but I have been lucky and weather has been either nice and hot or mild so can't complain.
I do however hate people who order stuff and have no intention of being in when I try and deliver it
I do however hate people who order stuff and have no intention of being in when I try and deliver it
They are just starting the label up. So any genres to start with, as we have a few scouts so I assume we will pick our own eventually. The boss has a lot of amazing contacts in L.A etc can't wait for it to start to pick up. She said I will make a lot of money too!
E-mail being composed to you as we speak, coming from the same background and aiming for O&G!
KaHn, wasn't successful down SW London way but have a Telephone interview in the next few days from a company in Aberdeen
Ah right
what company in Aberdeen? KaHn
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Saving for a Mining Engineer masters next year.
Saving for a Mining Engineer masters next year.
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This. No really, I help people get rid of pigeons, racing pigeons to be precise. Only temporary until September though.