Business Venture...

[BarryD]

Undetered by my cries of doom and gloom and "you business will fail" I am on my way to becoming one of the great unwashed. To be honest they are buying my silence with a wedge of cash that looks quite attractive (abeit petty cash to some of the forumites here)

So what to do...

Should I seek another senior type post in another firm and join another rat race?

Or, how about a chandlry of some sorts, I would look right fetching in a brown overall. Sell the hovel and move to Cornwall, open a shop and drop out of the rat race and be satisfied with a different pace?

What to do...

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[powerskipper]

Do what will make you happy, and some money,

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[Deleted User YDKXO]

Use the cash to buy another boat and have some fun whilst you think about what to do next

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[KevB]

Hey Barry,


Don't forget to include me in your venture, I still haven't rejoined the rat race. The summer has been just too good to even consider working, but now the cold weather is here...........

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[BarryD]

Good Lord Mr B. are you still swanning around? Of course we should enter into this venture together. That's two brown overcoats on order then, better sit down and have cup of tea before we decide what to do.

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[peterg]

put me down for a brown overall as well Barry ;-)

<hr width=100% size=1>currently boatless but kicking up a storm on the hillclimbs instead!

 

[Dave_Snelson]

My advice, for what it\'s worth...

Work like you don't need the money
Love like you've never been hurt
Dance like nobody's watching

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[milltech]

Buy an on line chandlery.....now I wonder who might have one of those?

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[tcm]

This is a possibility. You do have the correct bulk to run a chandlery and not get too much backchat or moaning minnies. Could you sell me a flaot switch please for less than 30 euros that actually er works?

I am afraid that you mite need some professional coaching in sucking teeth, and saying "no, that price is just for one not the whole box!"



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[EME]

I think you secretly know the answer to that one. I would suggest that the swindelry is opened in south of France , I would willingly drop out with you. We could then get a shack and hang signs outside permanently ' Gone Fishing'. 'Gone to Lunch', 'Just Gone Boating', plus the mandatory French ' Customers , who needs them?'

Could get rich too as we would only one need Customer ... no guessing who that might be... although allegedly claims to be very demanding!

Seriously -- sorry about the job , but, hey always something else if you want it.





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[jfm]

Brown overcoats all round

Eek, have you actually finished, no longer on train?

A suitable business plan would be:

sell non-hovel and cash in. Cars too. All of em.
get new nice gaffe in S.France
Open swindlery
Open immobilier department (H)
Buy boat with some of loot
Buy berth with some loot too
Open proper guardiennage service for english speakers, crack whip hard on cleaners etc

Make nice income from swindlery, immob commission, english peeps wanting turnkey boat-looking-after-service, 40% IRR on the berth, and have fun. you will have competition in the above but your and H's fluent english will be a USP and not one that is copiable by the natives. Short persons will become not merely good at French, but bilingual, a serious business tool for them in later life when they join ratrace.

 

[Artie]

The buzz word in todays buisness is MARKETING.

Here is a simple expression of the term.

You, the man, see an attractive girl at a party. You go up to her and say, "I'm fantastic in bed" - That's Marketing.

You are at a party with a bunch of friends and see an attractive girl. One of your friends goes up to the girl and says, "He's fantastic in bed" - Thats Advertising.

You see an attractive girl at a party, you straighten your tie. You walk up to her, (allowing her to absorbe the full measure of your Adonis-like physique) and pour her a drink. You say, "May I?" and reach up and straighten a stray whisp of hair brushing her breast lightly with your arm and then say,"By the way, I'm fantastic in bed" - Thats Public Relations.

You see a girl at a party. You go up to her and get her telephone number. The next day you call her and say "Hi I'm fantastic in bed" - That's Telemarketing.

You're at a party and see an attractive girl. She walks up to you and says, "I hear you're fantastic in bed" - That's Brand Recognition.

You're at a party and you see an attractive girl. You talk her into going home with a your friend. - That's a Sales Rep.

Your friend cannot satisfy her so he calls you. - That't Tech Support.

You're on your way to a party when you realise that there could be attractive girls in all the houses you're passing. So you climb onto the roof of one situated towards the centre and shout loudly "I'm fantastic in bed" - That's Junk Mail.

I hope the foregoing helps you with your understanding of your new business venture - All the best!



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[BarryD]

I thank you for those words. So that's the secret to Marketing....

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[BarryD]

Re: Brown overcoats all round

Train until the end of the month, there is a rumour that the board is reconsidering my departure (curses) so I am trying to screw up a little system here or there...

Thank you for the business plan, and from a professional planner no less - I'm not sure what the normal fee is but will a beer in the OBOE do?

I've been practising in my best "Arkwright" voice...
Sharp intake of breath - "Nah, you'll never see one of those round here."

I can see an English food section Beans and Marmite doing well in this swindelry and of course just for TCM - loads of broken float switches for 25 euros each.

Cheers.


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[tcm]

Re: Brown overcoats all round

bit of training still required before you open - i went back to the place that sold me the crap float switch and he said "oh yes, they're rubbish those are" so erm its presuambly a standard feature. Also i had to carve it about to get it to fit so no chance of refund, the git. Nice pleasant git though, that's the secret.

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