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centralpark
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Dear All
My partner works in groundworks/landscaping. I have it on good authority that he is talented at what he does so I have utter faith in him when he tells me he wants to go it alone. However we dont really now how to go about it! Do we just advertise - take bookings for a couple of months upfront and then leave current job? You can hire equipment so only expnse needs to be advertising to start with... Any tips gratefully received!!!
My partner works in groundworks/landscaping. I have it on good authority that he is talented at what he does so I have utter faith in him when he tells me he wants to go it alone. However we dont really now how to go about it! Do we just advertise - take bookings for a couple of months upfront and then leave current job? You can hire equipment so only expnse needs to be advertising to start with... Any tips gratefully received!!!
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centralpark wrote: »Dear All
My partner works in groundworks/landscaping. I have it on good authority that he is talented at what he does so I have utter faith in him when he tells me he wants to go it alone. However we dont really now how to go about it! Do we just advertise - take bookings for a couple of months upfront and then leave current job? You can hire equipment so only expnse needs to be advertising to start with... Any tips gratefully received!!!
What someone wants to do, and what someone is able to do may be two entirely different things.
I want to win the lottery jackpot, but I don't know how to for sure.
(Well there is one way I can think of, but it certainly wouldn't pay
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Ask him how he thinks he can make a success of winning at going it alone. Discuss it with him.
You'll then be able to assess his chances of success in winning in business compared to my chances of winning the lottery jackpot.0 -
Ask him if he wants you to go into partnership with him.0
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There seems to be a lot of competition from older people:
"Since 2011, most of the rise in self-employment has come from men between 50 and 64 working full time jobs. Between 2011 and 2012 the most common increases were in specialised construction activities and services to buildings and landscape which includes, for example, landscape gardeners."
Read more: http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-2274379/ONS-Over-50s-turn-self-employed-make-ends-meet.html#ixzz3LJmuMZJ3
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What is the demand in your area, and what is the competition like?
Has he got a lot of contacts?Who having known the diamond will concern himself with glass?
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