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owning your own business - 7/9/2011 3:26:54 AM

DavidLee44UK

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theres nothing like it

sleeping till when want

doing the hours you want

i left working for other people 3 yrs ago

anyone else run there own business

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RE: owning your own business - 7/9/2011 5:11:44 AM

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Um yeah. For 23 years. Sleeping til when you want? What kind of business do you run, because for us to remain competitive, viable and profitable, we eat drink sleep and live this company. I am sure that my peers that work for "the man" and punch a clock get far more sleep than I get. Do you have employees David? Are you incorporated? What's your website? Are you a member of your local BBB and Chamber of Commerce? Do you have office space costs, advertising, marketing, etc. and legitimate insurance coverages, including general liability and Worker's Comp? Which runs in the tens of thousands by the way. Or..is this some internet start up thing? Just curious.

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RE: owning your own business - 7/9/2011 5:56:13 AM

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He sleeps when he wants as long as it's between midnight and five in the morning. He works much longer days than when he worked in an office. He gets emergency calls from clients and runs.

Although the one this week was pretty funny. He gets a frantic phone call from a client saying her house has been vandalized, the police are on the way. Gets there to discover the police showed, peered down at the hole kicked into the porch and sees a furry face. The 'vandal' was a groundhog that chewed its way through cement to get in and then chewed its way through sheetrock to get out.

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RE: owning your own business - 7/9/2011 6:34:02 AM

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Aynne started of in IT as a consultant now im in seo search engine optimisation

im also a netpreneur have couple products i sell and in various niches inc mobile phones and xbox games both which i love

and nope desip

as you know the net is 24 hours a day 365 days a year

i can sleep while people round the world buy my products my seo service is a backend

plus as once u stop seo your rankings go down its residual monthly income

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RE: owning your own business - 7/9/2011 7:10:16 AM

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no Aylee not incorporated

no employees unless i want something outsourced

my advertising costs quite low compared to what they used to be

google adwords so much more competitive i focus more on facebook and twitter these days

facebook ads are brill bring lots business but most my money is spent on targeting local keywords

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RE: owning your own business - 7/9/2011 7:17:23 AM

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Not to pick a bone, but I'd really say that makes you self employed, rather than saying you own a business.

Anyway, congrats on your success.

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RE: owning your own business - 7/9/2011 7:23:01 AM

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lol so whose is it then ???

and if self employed aren't you running a business and not say a party

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RE: owning your own business - 7/9/2011 7:25:33 AM

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Just semantics, nobody's pissing in your Wheaties.

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RE: owning your own business - 7/9/2011 7:29:47 AM

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i know just asking u said it wasnt my business

just asking whose is it then

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RE: owning your own business - 7/9/2011 7:36:03 AM

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would thought more owned there own businesses because in the real world most my friends in lifestyle do run there own businesses

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RE: owning your own business - 7/9/2011 7:36:11 AM

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good god...really?

it is YOUR business, prat.. but unless you have people on payroll, regularly, you ARE essentially self-employed.

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RE: owning your own business - 7/9/2011 7:39:28 AM

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Many years ago, in my previous life, I had a business with my ex. It was disolved when the marriage was.

Several decades later. Generic dude started his own business the first of this year and is doing quite well. My primary income comes from a regular, 8-5 Monday through Friday job. However, I do have my own business I do in my 'free' time. It is doing well also.

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RE: owning your own business - 7/9/2011 7:45:52 AM

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mine started in my own free time to laT

was working as an IT technician at a local college

and some students asked for my help there idea came from

then in 2000 i8 really got hooked on the net made a small geocities site called smeghead

selling Red Dwarf merchandise

slowly the IT side grew more and more quiet but my site as an affiliate with amazon grew more and more

and while i still keep up to date with it its gone more and more mobile with cloud computing and netbooks

so now im more interested in gingerbread os on new android phones than ms server improvements

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RE: owning your own business - 7/9/2011 9:59:10 AM

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It is a matter of words. Many consider owning a business having a physical location where customers walk in etc.

That notion may be quite outdated now because so many people shop online these days, and SEO has become sort of the new billboard, flyer or ad in a newspaper. All these things are becoming outdated. In fact many psysical newspapers are in a financial downturn.

I think you mentioned you were in IT. Is SEO actually more profitable ? I don't know how the market is over there but here a good IT pro can make very good money administering computer networks for large companies, salaries up to around a quarter million a year (USD). Not all make that much, but they do quite well. This is steady money, but they do have to psysically go to work.

Telecommunting is getting big in many areas, and related is the marketing affiliations. All they do is get people to visit sites in some cases, maybe only a nickel a click, but that money rolls in as they sleep. Very attractive.

I have been looking for something like that, something I can do from the PC. What do you have to learn to do SEO ? I haven't heard of any schools teaching the process.

Don't get me wrong, I have had some fantasic years in the electronics business but times are changing. Plus I am tired of traveling. People don't know how to fucking drive, the roads are always fucked up and I see so much mismagement in business that it makes my hair stand on end. I wonder how some of these places stay in business, which doesn't instill alot of confidence in my job security. In fact where I'm at now, to stay I might have to take over, and I don't want that. I have been the big boss before and I don't want that.

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RE: owning your own business - 7/9/2011 10:04:28 AM

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I have my own tax & accounting practice. It's wonderful.

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RE: owning your own business - 7/9/2011 10:10:44 AM

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RE: owning your own business - 7/9/2011 10:14:01 AM

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I was a freelance journalist and technical writer for a year or so, but I didn't like the financial uncertainty of the business, so eventually I went back to working for someone else.

Maybe once the mortgage is paid off I might consider it again...although I found I worked a hell of a lot more hours than I do now!

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RE: owning your own business - 7/9/2011 10:18:16 AM

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Um yeah. For 23 years. Sleeping til when you want? What kind of business do you run, because for us to remain competitive, viable and profitable, we eat drink sleep and live this company. I am sure that my peers that work for "the man" and punch a clock get far more sleep than I get.

Yeah I used to chuckle when I'd hear people daydreaming about owning a business out-loud. One of the funny things they'd say is "When I get my business started I'll be able to do what I want when I want. I'll open up when I want, take vacations when I want, close when I want" In truth you do have those options but you'd be an idiot in most cases if you chose to use them in an irresponsible manner. Sleeping in isn't an option for me and hasn't been since I was 21 lol.

It's just a fact that most businesses operate during a certain time range and if you want to start off on the right foot you'll conform to those ways in some way.

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RE: owning your own business - 7/9/2011 10:23:30 AM

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Firm and I own our own business. I won't get into semantics about whether we are "self-employed" or own a "business"... the criteria differs depending upon what kind of business it is. To argue otherwise, is silly

Yes, the freedom is great, but the responsibility is awesome. I would never say that we don't "work for other people". We may run our own business, but we work for our clients.

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RE: owning your own business - 7/9/2011 10:42:30 AM

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yup we always work for our customers/clients etc

the web though offers such scope

on the web u can have customers visit your site and buy your product even when your sleeping

which you could never do if u didnt sell things online

weve just had a major clothes chain go under here yet online clothes sell like hot cakes a pair womens shoes are sold online every ten seconds

and also top ten brands on facebook for uk 9 are retail

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