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cheekymonkey20

Managed to get all my business account info sorted today yay.. but found out there was a £50 charge to sort out the overdraft SCANDELOUS!

Have entered GMTV and This morning competitions today lol, looking to win a nice £25k so that i can give up my day job and focus my time wholey on the mortgage business.

and recieved a cca from halifax which isnt signed haha! so looking good to get the account paid off yay!!!!

Went on the course yesterday and found out that i dnt just have to do mortgages and related protection can now do all the following

• Residental Mortgage
• Commercial Mortgage
• Secured Lending
• Buy to Lets
• Overseas Mortgages
• Accident sickness and unemployment cover
• Income payment protection
• Personal Health Insurance
• Over 50's insurance
• Buildings & Contents
• Landlords B&C
• Life Cover
• Critical Illness
• Will Writing referalls
• HIP referalls
• Conveyancing referalls
• Guarenteed Saving Investment Plans
• Savings Accounts
• ISA's
• Unenforcable CCA agreements
• Utility warehouse contracts
• Annuity and pension referalls

Quite a vast list to get on with.

Been brainstorming about the advertising that i can be looking into. So far have:

• Doctors, Dentists & Hospitals
• Shopping Centres (fixed adverts and stands)
• Newspaper Adverts and inserts
• Gyms
• Post Office notice boards and shops
• Estate Agents
• Car Stickers
• Information in local home improvement shops
• Fundraisers to improve awareness
• Small local shops newspaper inserts
• Jobcentre/citizens advise
• Social Club notice boards
• Internet sites / business pages
• Flyering / cars / houses / out and about in shopping centres

The broker has already got flyers and a website however i dont feel that they are very good and want to improve them and help get the word out about the business.

I want to be able to be known as the place to go in the area for mortgages and general financial advise.

Any ideas will be highly welcomed.

Cheekymonkey

Horace

That's a huge list Cheeky.

Well I am back from the printers - sometimes I can be thick how can I possibly expect to pay £69 plus VAT for 500 business cards:rolleyes: I ended up paying £205.50 inc VAT for 500 of them but I have chosen an elegant card which has 2 really straight sides and then it has one curved corner. They will be printed on both sides and they are going to jiggle with my logo a bit but still keeping the two intertwined hearts - they will also say - Bespoke Wedding & Events Planner (see I am branching out already:j) I have also spoken to them about my website and when my current contract comes to an end, I will switch to them as they can do my site for £399 plus VAT with free hosting for 12 months and then charge me £99 per annum thereafter and they will give me some software to allow me to change the pages myself....hurrah:j

Well best crack on - I need to strip the bed and remake it - its good drying weather today and I can put a load of washing on.

Cya laters peeps x

moneymabel

blimey you've had a productive day ! I've done sod all, just waiting for Saturday when I'm getting my photos done for my website :-) until that's completed there's not much I can do. When it's done I can sort out advertising and some postcards /flyers.

3WayFreedom

Fab thread folks.
I am currently working from home as I am planning and preparing to open a business.
Lots of great tips folks, look forward to adding to it.


3Way. x

Horace

Welcome 3Way:D

Now self-employed peeps do you fancy earning your lunch at least? I do surveys for P1necone (often referred to as PC as they don't like being discussed on forums) they pay me in luncheon vouchers so each survey earns me £3 of luncheon vouchers which can be used in all sorts of places including Waitrose. Now PC have emailed me today asking me to invite friends so if you want to join and earn some luncheon vouchers (or you can have money paid into your bank) then PM me with your email address. Only one person can apply per household. I like to be paid in luncheon vouchers as I can use these when I am out such as when I go to Starbucks etc.

moneymabel

I'm a member, i dont get surveys very often but its worth it when you do! You can use the luncheon vouchers at Tescos which is v handy. Join up while you get the chance, the banner is very hard to find and invitations dont come up very often

Horace

You can use them in Morrisons, Sainsburys, Garfunkels, Eat, M&S, Waitrose, Boots, Starbucks, KFC, Caffe Uno, McDs, Bella Pasta, Tesco, Nandos, Coffee Republic, Iceland, Yates's, Asda, Greggs, J D Wetherspoon and Bagel Factory and loads of other places.:cool:

Horace

The birds woke me up at 4am:eek: but I didnt get up til about 7.30 - not yet had morning coffee.

I am having a lazy day today, I have a visitor coming and later on I will be having someone from freecycle coming to collect my old vacuum cleaner. She wanted one and I wanted rid of mine:j

Have a productive day all:D

Purpleroses

morning all!

isn't it always the case that when you have a day off planned something important work wise comes up and you just have to do it!
figure the earlier i did it the sooner i can stop working

have a good day all

starxtrouble

Morning all!

After my productive anxst free morning yesterday my OH who had yesterday and today off work as well as the Easter weekend came to talk to me about finances and was a rather flippant about finances and whether he would get 1500 back from his old landlord or not and whether it really mattered. He has a lot less debt than me and about a quarter of it is due to him supporting me when ive been unemployed. I got rather upset about my finances again and that did spoil the afternoon a bit, so when I was a bit disgruntled in the middle of the afternoon about the amount of work I had left he promised to take me to Pizza Express for dinner cos its Orange Wed as Id been working from 9-7. Silly man when we got there his mobile was dead so we couldnt get the offer! and it was packed with ppl waiting for a table so we just ended up elsewhere for twice the price. Oh well!!

This morning I have been working since 7 45 *polishs halo* but only cos I have to spent most of the morning at the hospital with OH whilst he sees a specialist.. finally I might get a decent nites sleep in my own bed! (OH has suspected sleep apnea... about 50% of the time I end up on the bed in the living room)

but the agency has work that needs doing today, so I've got to try and fit in around everything else... but all work is good Tomorrow I get to raise her a nice invoice with 14 pieces of work on it yay

Little poll for everyone else... will you be taking the day off tomorrow as it's a bank holiday and if so/not, why

I'm not planning on doing any actual work 2moro, but I will invoicing and catching up on some things I havent had chance to do this week, like sending my CV to more agencies.

*Star*