help offered - business start ups

cyberbob222

Hi,

After years of full time employment and doing million things aside, i came to conclusion that i really more enjoy opening new businesses, than working in them after all. I do like that thrill of new fresh websites, rethinking concepts and planning budgets.

I thought i could help setting up a small business.

What i can do by now is:
- choosing best formal shape for Your new venture
- structuring free flying ideas into marketing 4P's
- creating budgets
- forecasting future, often basing on my plenty times tested guts
- communication: web sites, business cards, ads, leaflets, door drops. One of my recent projects i actively helped with was www.ritasnails.com
- issues related to licencings, certifications, approvals etc.
- I am the type: lets go and knock on somebodys doors to see how it works.

I would do it more for craick than for money.

All unemployed guys are very welcome. Although i dont have a solution for bank crisis.


email me:
cyberbob222@gmail.com

i am based on the border of meath and dublin

Axwell

Whats in it for you in return for all this help and advice?

Are you that good at everything you decided to post it twice to tell us?:D

In relation to your recent project you helped Rita setup a website done in flash, with no SEO or meta data and that will be near impossible to find in google outside of searching for the term itself.

cyberbob222

I remember the very first time when i tried to get an idea of the ground. And there was really hardly ever anybody i could ask for help on biz setup, accountancy, product sourcing etc.

Is it too good to be true to You?

Bandara

A bargain is only a bargain if it's useful.

What experience have you of setting up and operating VERY successful companies in different areas over an extended period of time? And to have been financially very successful.

Because that is what you need to have acheived to back up your offer, otherwise you could do huge damage to a startup that does not know the correct procedures.

I note you are polish, if you are only in Ireland for 6 or 7 years you are really in no position to claim to know the legalities, accountancy practices and methods of business in this country. It takes a very long time to learn such things, I'm doing it 15 years and I am still quite basic in some areas.

What's your cv?

Edit; I don't mean to be agressive but you could really mess someone up if you advise them incorrectly.

Axwell

cyberbob222 wrote: »

Is it too good to be true to You?

Well without knowing your background, your experience and seeing some evidence to back up what you say then yes it is. The one example you did show, the website you linked to, is a badly designed website using flash with no meta data or SEO. Theres a phrase, jack of all trades master of none that springs to mind.

cyberbob222

Thats an interesting phrase will have to look into it

If You guys can do better what i can do, thats great!

I hope You dont mind if i keep on replying to those who responded.

Bandara

cyberbob222 wrote: »

Thats an interesting phrase will have to look into it

If You guys can do better what i can do, thats great!

I hope You dont mind if i keep on replying to those who responded.

Two people have replied (one being me) You could actually reply to them first.

stepbar

Aside of what the pair of lads have said already, I'm going to make a comment on the website you've designed.

I find it strange (considering that you have all this "experience"), that you neglected to think that people might want to know where "Rita Duffy" lives or even what areas she covers? Lets say I'm a woman and in Kildare. For all I know she could be in West Cork. What good is Rita to me?

Seriously.......

infamous

Boards is great for the ammount of knockers on here a fella is offering a bit of help an advice to newbies and everyone jumps on him. I love Hammertimes line "I'm doing it 15 years and I am still quite basic in some areas" what has this got to do with anyone else's abilities?

Axwell

infamous wrote: »

Boards is great for the ammount of knockers on here a fella is offering a bit of help an advice to newbies and everyone jumps on him. I love Hammertimes line "I'm doing it 15 years and I am still quite basic in some areas" what has this got to do with anyone else's abilities?

Well the OP has listed a lot of areas in which he can do now in his own words, I looked at the example website he gave. Its poorly designed, badly coded and will never be found on googles search engines about from under a generic search for the business. So based on that alone I wouldnt want him setting me up with a website.

As for the other aspects of business he offers who knows how good he is at them, he hasnt listed his background or experience in any of these areas or how successful the companies have been that he was involved in.

You cant come on making bold claims of being some sort of expert without backing it up a bit and the site he listed is a bad example so not a good start to be honest. Hammertimes comment is pretty self explanitory, hes in business 15 years and quite successful at it from what I read in his "down the well" session so im sure he knows a good bit, yet he is admitting there is so much to learn its impossible to be great at everything and he is always learning. The OP has a wide list of areas he is expert in which is a bold statement to make, again if the website is anything to go by then I doubt it personally. Advice is fine, but bad advice can ruin a company. At the end of the day this is peoples lives and money we are talking about and it should be taken seriously.

Bandara

infamous wrote: »

Boards is great for the ammount of knockers on here a fella is offering a bit of help an advice to newbies and everyone jumps on him. I love Hammertimes line "I'm doing it 15 years and I am still quite basic in some areas" what has this got to do with anyone else's abilities?

If you think people on this forum knock each other your very wrong, its extremely helpful resource, but bullsh!t doesn't get tolerated very much.

Lets say someone here does contact the OP for help in say getting their website out there and established and to show up well on searches etc (basically what all companies require), he then advises them to do this that and the other. They know no better and go along with everything he says.

Except its wrong.

Who gets hurt ?

If he is offering expertise to someone then he should be an expert. If you disagree then fair enough.

The case in point is ritasnails. I would suggest that if you sat Rita down and pointed out everything thats wrong she would be shocked and immediately ask you to rectify it all. Try typing in "rita's nails in blanchardstown" and see what you find.

Chet Zar

Hammertime wrote: »

If you think people on this forum knock each other your very wrong, its extremely helpful resource, but bullsh!t doesn't get tolerated very much.

Lets say someone here does contact the OP for help in say getting their website out there and established and to show up well on searches etc (basically what all companies require), he then advises them to do this that and the other. They know no better and go along with everything he says.

Except its wrong.

Who gets hurt ?

If he is offering expertise to someone then he should be an expert. If you disagree then fair enough.

The case in point is ritasnails. I would suggest that if you sat Rita down and pointed out everything thats wrong she would be shocked and immediately ask you to rectify it all. Try typing in "rita's nails in blanchardstown" and see what you find.

+1 I've only been looking on here since very recently but it's definitely one of the the friendliest and most useful fora on boards.ie (this and the Design forum) - refreshingly free from BS and as a result glad to see the OP being rightly called out.

BnB

Chet Zar wrote: »

+1 I've only been looking on here since very recently but it's definitely one of the the friendliest and most useful fora on boards.ie (this and the Design forum) - refreshingly free from BS and as a result glad to see the OP being rightly called out.

Agreed.

The OP's post stinks of BS.

lyndak082

I feel like im asking a really stupid question here but im just wondering how exactly do you calculate the start up cost of a new business?????

the part that gets me is STOCK?? how much should you start off with ?? is there some sort of formula or method?

its for a clothes shop, is it a lot of guess work? like what would fill the shop?

fergalfrog

I just felt compelled to defend the OP as I think there is a bit of over-cynicism in shooting down the offer of help.

Firstly it wasn't never claimed that SEO was one of his stong points so going on about how the one website mentioned didn't have metatags is irrelevant - it may even have just been a mistake or on a todo list.

Perhaps it is all BS but even if only half of it was useful is this not better than nothing? If a leaving cert student came to me, not having a clue of anything I may still take up their offer of help.

If You guys can do better what i can do, thats great!

I am probably going to get a flood of replies and so just remember I am only trying to defend what may be a legitimate offer of help.

To cyberbob222 if you want to get involved in some of the projects I am involved with please PM me or contact me through norecessionroundhere.com and I will give you more details on how we may be able to help each other.

Axwell

fergalfrog wrote: »

I just felt compelled to defend the OP as I think there is a bit of over-cynicism in shooting down the offer of help.

Firstly it wasn't never claimed that SEO was one of his stong points so going on about how the one website mentioned didn't have metatags is irrelevant - it may even have just been a mistake or on a todo list.

The website is badly designed, badly coded, completely done in flash, has no meta tags or SEO, and even the most basic details, where Rita is based is missing. So it is very relevant, that website is doing her business no favours at all and is a waste to be honest. To have web design down as one of his areas of expertise is therefore wrong and misleading. As for the rest of the things he lists who knows as he hasnt giving any background so I can only comment on what he has shown us. As I said above this is peoples lives and money, if someone came to him with a business and wanted a website and all this advice then I dont think it is right that their money gets wasted on a poor website and possibly equally poor advice in all the other areas listed.

lyndak082

well i know NOTHING about building websites r any of that BUT....

from a female customer point of view i think its good!

except the bit where u dont know where shes based

but any eejit can guess shes in dublin if u look closely enough!!

then i got thinkin..... maybe its just a sample of his work??? no??

Axwell

lyndak082 wrote: »

well i know NOTHING about building websites r any of that BUT....

from a female customer point of view i think its good!

except the bit where u dont know where shes based

but any eejit can guess shes in dublin if u look closely enough!!

then i got thinkin..... maybe its just a sample of his work??? no??

Firstly can you explain to me how any eejit can "guess" shes in Dublin when there is no reference to it on the website?

Secondly hes listed it as a project he was actively involved in so its not a sample piece.

When it comes to designing a website it has to be designed for search engines as much as it has for the customer, this site will never get ranked in the search engines so will never be found by potential customers so it will be of little or no use to the business. To the general customer it might look fine but the thing is you would never come across the site in google if you searched for a nail technician so it isnt doing her business any use. This thread isnt spcifically about web design or the do's and donts so I dont want to go off topic but as an example of his services it doesnt do him or them any favours.