Starting up on your own

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I started in November. Had alot of work. Last month I worked only a few days which was hard going but next week Im busy again hopefully for the rest of the month and Ive got other stuff waiting to start. Ive got adverts in place so its looking good so far. Fingers crossed.
How about you?
 
got quite alot of weekend work. Work for a building company in the week, but i do other trades as well. Fed up working for other people and want to go it alone. Just got to make the break.
 
Well I jacked in my job for similar reasons in the heat of the moment. I sat at home for weeks wondering what to do before I set up. My advise would be to get some savings behind you and also to get adverts in place BEFORE you go it alone. It'll help speed things up.
Some people are busy some are dead, theres many factors that are involved not to mention luck!
 
I set up on my own 1 year ago and I had ads in place before hand in the local rag and yell pages.
I have been busy and havent really had many slack periods but as bruce says its down to abit of luck aswell. Good luck
 
Im looking at going it my own later this year, after doing it sort of part time along with some general building work for the past 4 years.

question is, how have you guys gone about advertising, been on the phone to a few places this morning, yell.com want £399 for the cheapest ad on their site.

im listed on a few other sites (free ones) and have been for the last 6 months or so, but nothing. my free yell.com listing has thrown up 3 phonecalls in the past year.

without dishing out your secrets, can someone give me a heads up on what works. word of mouth is a tricky thing to start! :-[
 
boodle99 said:
Im looking at going it my own later this year, after doing it sort of part time along with some general building work for the past 4 years.

question is, how have you guys gone about advertising, been on the phone to a few places this morning, yell.com want £399 for the cheapest ad on their site.

im listed on a few other sites (free ones) and have been for the last 6 months or so, but nothing. my free yell.com listing has thrown up 3 phonecalls in the past year.

without dishing out your secrets, can someone give me a heads up on what works. word of mouth is a tricky thing to start! :-[
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Welcome to the forum mate ;) try introducing your self first also , you may find you get a better response
 
I set up a couple of months ago. Doing well, but want more, more, more. Ha.
Got my first job coming up where I'm going to have to sub out a portion of it to enable it to be finished in a reasonable time frame.
Just looking in to registering to make payments through CIS. It seems like the only way to take things forward, so it's gotta be done but monthly returns with penalty charges for missed payments ain't turning me on too much.
Has anyone had any experience of dealing with CIS?
 
RMK said:
I set up a couple of months ago. Doing well, but want more, more, more. Ha.
Got my first job coming up where I'm going to have to sub out a portion of it to enable it to be finished in a reasonable time frame.
Just looking in to registering to make payments through CIS. It seems like the only way to take things forward, so it's gotta be done but monthly returns with penalty charges for missed payments ain't turning me on too much.
Has anyone had any experience of dealing with CIS?
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Yeah it s a pain in the arse just been fined £100 for late monthly return even though it was nil,i ve put an appeal in so i havn t paid the fine yet.
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Yeah. Heard it's a hundred squids everytime you miss a return.
Accountant said it can be completed online in 4 quick stages, so all I'd have to do is set myself a reminder each month.
Peace of piddle surely!
 
RMK said:
Yeah. Heard it's a hundred squids everytime you miss a return.
Accountant said it can be completed online in 4 quick stages, so all I'd have to do is set myself a reminder each month.
Peace of piddle surely!
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Yeh make sure you set a reminder to remind you to do it.It wasn t the fact it was late apparently i posted two together when i spoke to them so they told me to appeal so i will get a human being looking at it not a computer that dishes these fines out.
 
I have been on my own for about a year now.

I used to work with another fella but now I am on my own I have more work.

I agree with bruce, make sure you have some money saved up before hand.

It will be less stressfull when you are short of work and you can stay positive.
 
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