Advertising Scam

[MadBaz]

I had a call acouple of months ago from a Porter Publications claiming to make a calender for the fire service and they'd like advertise my business for Edited March 6, 2007 by MADBAZ

[Gteuk]

I would stay away from anything that says they are making a calander, diary, menu, handbook, etc. usually along the lines of charities, NHS, Council etc.

 

I always get calls saying "We are ringing from [high end company, eg Flintshire County Council] and would like to give you xyz"

 

I always ask the question do Flintshire County Council pay your national insurance contributions, in other words are you on their payrol, some will still try to blag it so I say not a problem what is your extension I will call you back. Usually they slam the phone down at that point...

[MadBaz]

I would stay away from anything that says they are making a calander, diary, menu, handbook, etc. usually along the lines of charities, NHS, Council etc.

 

I always get calls saying "We are ringing from [high end company, eg Flintshire County Council] and would like to give you xyz"

 

I always ask the question do Flintshire County Council pay your national insurance contributions, in other words are you on their payrol, some will still try to blag it so I say not a problem what is your extension I will call you back. Usually they slam the phone down at that point...

 

 

I've only just started up and was a bit naive, but I've got some spare time today and are sinking my teeth into these people, Wakefield college use one of the companies and I've had a very interesting convo with tthe head of marketing, She is at this very moment asking them for proof of distribution. I've already had a call back from watchdog who seem quite interested.

[Gteuk]

I've already had a call back from watchdog who seem quite interested.

 

 

Don't forget to plug the site as well as your new business, :lol:

 

Any questions you have about marketing etc, or even how to go about things there is a lot of self employed peeps as well as upper management types on this board so feel free to post anything.

 

Be aware of unfair contracts as that is the one that catches most out, if you sign anything on your premises make sure you read the smallprint, most will say you cannot cancel even if the ink is still wet.

 

Business to business is a pain as you are not protected by the sales of goods act most of the time.

[mumof4]

What business have you set up madbaz??

[mumof4]

D'oh//scrap that..i forgot till i looked in your profile.. :lol:

[MadBaz]

Thanx Gteuk will bear what you said in mind, I now run a local PC Repair company in Huddersfield (Shorefix Computers), I used to work for a kitchen mfr programming and operating cnc's then went on to be a quality auditor (I mean pay lip service to ISO 9001/14001) then got s**t on. Most manufacturing is being transferred to Poland and the Poles are being employed in whats left of manufacturing in the UK I knew it was time to look at other things. Fixing PC's is quite a nice job, I can fit work round school runs and it gets me out of the house.

[Gteuk]

I don't envy you, don't know what it is like in huddersfield but around here it is a very cut throat market. I have been in the computer industry since 1990 when you were lucky to see one in an office. I moved out of the mainstream computer industry about 6 years ago to specialist networking and server configurations as well as setting up a few servers in datacentres for hosting websites.

 

I am nearly out of the computer game now (by choice) limited it to my job and a few of my favoured customers holding a few websites for em.

 

Good luck, and as said before any questions just post em. I am sure there are loads of knowledgable people on here who can help....

 

Hmm might set up a business and commerce section

[mumof4]

sounds like a good idea...as steve67 runs his own business aswell.......quite a few peeps on here do.