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Monthly Archives: July 2016

Business Insight 43 – From a salesman, to managing salesmen (vlog only)

Published: July 29, 2016
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Business Insight 43 – From a salesman, to managing salesmen (blog & vlog)

Published: July 29, 2016
By: The Funding Room

As was our tradition, another Christmas lunch was organised for all staff, and a further evening extravaganza with our wives, husbands and partners, favoured suppliers and friends in attendance (with unlimited and free-flowing alcohol at both).   1981 Quite a Read more ›

Business Insight 42 – Manufacturing (vlog only)

Published: July 28, 2016
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Business Insight 42 – Manufacturing (blog & vlog)

Published: July 28, 2016
By: The Funding Room

We advertised for salesmen to work in our four showrooms. Getting good candidates who weren’t previously failed, bitter or twisted industry blaggards – or slippery in other ways – was becoming a bit of a problem. The struggle to find Read more ›

Business Insight 41 – Professional Advisors (vlog only)

Published: July 28, 2016
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Business Insight 41 – Professional Advisors (blog & vlog)

Published: July 28, 2016
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A showroom was found on the main shopping street in Tunbridge Wells. There was an £18,000 premium for the benefit of a Full Repairing Lease, with an unexpired term of 7 years and a big rent. It was refurbished and Read more ›

Business Insight 40 – Freeholds (vlog only)

Published: July 26, 2016
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Business Insight 40 – Freeholds (blog & vlog)

Published: July 26, 2016
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We all moved into a freehold building on Mark Lane right in the middle of Eastbourne town centre. It was about 4,000 sq. ft. and had been a smoking factory for bacon and other foods. It was on the market Read more ›

Business Insight 39 – Fixed costs and overheads (vlog only)

Published: July 25, 2016
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Business Insight 39 – Fixed costs and overheads (blog & vlog)

Published: July 25, 2016
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1980 We flew into this year with a mission to carry on expanding the business. This included getting proper depot premises and opening up another showroom. Running the business from our very small Eastbourne shop, with overspill functions being taken Read more ›

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