Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

PasturesNew

fc123 wrote: »

Do it do it.......won't take long to do costings at all.:D
If you finished the day feeling a glow, then definately do more.

I loved it .... but I'm really interested in the one I'm trying to get onto on Saturday .... and, moving forward, I'm wondering if I should be looking at doing a degree in some of this stuff.

I've always actually liked the idea, just always assumed I'd be rubbish, it'd be hard, there's no money in it ..... but, as I'm not making a fortune from writing, I might as well not make a fortune from something else too. I figure I'll poke about with some ideas and see what happens.

I think there's money in the margin, so then it's just a question of the marketing and hanging a niche onto some lifestyles.... or "find the ladies who lunch" and flog it to them

So, I need to work towards "becoming a brand", rather than "just another person that cranks out this stuff".

fc123

PasturesNew wrote: »

I loved it .... but I'm really interested in the one I'm trying to get onto on Saturday .... and, moving forward, I'm wondering if I should be looking at doing a degree in some of this stuff.

I've always actually liked the idea, just always assumed I'd be rubbish, it'd be hard, there's no money in it ..... but, as I'm not making a fortune from writing, I might as well not make a fortune from something else too. I figure I'll poke about with some ideas and see what happens.

I think there's money in the margin, so then it's just a question of the marketing and hanging a niche onto some lifestyles.... or "find the ladies who lunch" and flog it to them

So, I need to work towards "becoming a brand", rather than "just another person that cranks out this stuff".

The actual making of things really unravels the mind as well....hence that glow feeling once it's done.

Send me some pics later if you like ..........something for you to do apart from the web stuff could work well for you.
I have to go to sleep now as early start tomo and I need to be buzzy...not all droopy and tired ;-) but a look about etsy.com will show you what's about and what's selling.

...and don't set your own price...send me a pic and base cost + time and I will price it as you will price it too low.

I'm not sure how to become a brand as such.....the best route is to do what you want to do and create it, then just put it out there and see who buys it...which is what we did. The other bit follows after a time.

Doozergirl

Bit OT for an OT thread but I rarely read the board immediately outside this thread because I know what I'm going to find. But sometimes I do it and it drives me nuts.

Do any of you lot read it and contribute much any more? I feel old when it starts to dawn on me that some of the posts are so ill thought out that the people posting are probably adults (as they seem to have jobs), but really immature ones.

Hopefully that means younger than me, rather than older than me and managing so far to avoid any kind of life experience that prompts empathy for other people at all.

Rant over. Sorry. You can talk about gravy and important business, and I'll go and look at a different board for a bit

treliac

lemonjelly wrote: »

Er.....:o

Git!:p

(Well done for spotting that one....dang!)



Did I? Can't remember that...

Thing is, it never started as an intention, I just challenged a few posters when they made assumptions about me, & that opened debates about whether I was male or female.

Anyway, it is there now.

(Unless that was a trick to fool you all...Mwah ha ha ha hahhhhh!:D)

They were never assumptions, lj, they were 'perceptions'. You never fooled anyone.....

treliac

lir, sorry to hear about DH's accident. Hope he's over the worst of it now?

Davesnave

Doozergirl wrote: »

Bit OT for an OT thread but I rarely read the board immediately outside this thread because I know what I'm going to find. But sometimes I do it and it drives me nuts.

Do any of you lot read it and contribute much any more?

I think a few of us do. I never contributed anything very deep to it though. Like a few of us, I ended up there in '07 trying to find out what was going on with the housing market and got hooked, especially during the financial meltdowns of '08.

I never understood half of the economics/investing stuff & probably never will. As an average sort of bloke, I decided that all the basics looked set to become more expensive, so we should own something that produces the basics; i.e. a smallholding. Now we do, I wonder whether it was a bit daft taking on all this work at my age, but what else is there....slippers? comfy chair? carpet bowls?

And I think it's not over yet, so the board may just get more interesting again.

dopester

Sorry to learn about the car-accident Lir. You don't sound too downbeat, so thankfully must be just vehicle damage which is nothing compared to injury.

There's risk with buying second hand cars.. loads of things to check.. could post loads. For both bangers and more modern cars. I'm wary of both. Just hope Misskool has got herself a reliable older car. Am excited and hopeful for her.. now driving to and from work in her car.

Would be so great if her car gives a good length of time without any mechanical issues other than basic service stuff (oil change, oil filter, air filter, spark plugs, brake pads.. things even best running cars need doing as part of good running... eg car battery on even great running cars need replacing from time to time.)

Last Summer had awful problems (expensive) with my Mum's car which is only a few years old. Whereas near neighbour with the same older car as Misskool tells me she never wants to get rid of it. Proved very reliable for her for so many years, with no computers to complicate matters.

Still kicking myself from my Mum's car problem of last Summer. £350 of computer diagnostics at garage and their failed attempts to fix... and it only turns out to be what I suspected it was right from the very start. If only I'd bought that £80 part (£200 new) from ebay from the beginning. Looked at it so many times before taking car to (more than one) car repair garage. Eventually I bought it, fitted it in 20 minutes and perfectly running again with no break-downs.

Although I did have to buy a £280 full version diagnostics cable to make final adjustments, (the £10 cable with shareware diagnostic software which works for diagnostics on my car, just wouldn't on hers as newer model), but it should pay itself back in the future as don't have to pay garage £50 a time for diagnostics on her car, or my own.

The only slight upside being, the financing agreement "balloon payment" on the car was due, and I persuaded the finance company to knock off £250 from the balance, and got a new full and final settlement figure. (Then a few weeks later the boiler conks.. been very reliable so never had boiler cover for many years... so £185 for fixed fee repair).

When I was still a toddler my Mum once bought a car from an auction, having had a mechanic-neighbour accompany her and give it his blessing. A few weeks later, a bin-man on his round caught my Mum's attention outside her house, and with a smile told her that it was his old car. That he'd traded it, and was surprised it was still fit for the road. Something like "I've driven all over the country in it." Not sure how reliable it was in the end.. oh yes... a guy lightly drove into the back of it in stop-start traffic, and paid my Mum cash not to go through the insurance so didn't do so badly out of it.

Been to many car auctions with another close relative, mostly for 10 year old cars for use by visiting relative to the country for a couple of months... and only once a problem over the longer term, which I caused by messing with the controls.

Davesnave

DD1 bought a car for her bloke yesterday. She actually went to the place on Saturday to buy a sewing machine for DD2, but discovered the family was leaving the country & had all manner of things for sale. She bought the sewing machine and a few other items.

Then DD1 looked at their VW Golf & road tested it, (she also drives a Golf) but felt it was over their budget, so she offered £425 for it and told the guy to ring her if there were no other takers.

Last night, he rang to say the car was hers.

lostinrates

fc123 wrote: »

Thankyouverymuch ........a cup of confidence is needed sometimes (like the lion and his cup of courage in Wizard of Oz).

Have some more from me. Like misskool of I se something that looks yours I grin. And I get outraged when I see copycats (a couple of times only...don't get out much)

Think you are foolish to turn down big thing because of fear....YOU are a success because of your own hard work....what can you be scared of....your success is because of your own head...not staff or stuff. While you have you you have everything.

silvercar

lostinrates wrote: »

Think you are foolish to turn down big thing because of fear....YOU are a success because of your own hard work....what can you be scared of....your success is because of your own head...not staff or stuff. While you have you you have everything.

Seconded.

Take on an office manager - part time if necessary to get rid of the stuff and move forward.