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Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2013 7:48 pm
by local patios and driveway
Tony, you would be the ideal man to set up a paving import business.... 50k outlay maybe?
Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2013 10:04 pm
by London Stone Paving
local patios and driveways wrote:Tony, you would be the ideal man to set up a paving import business.... 50k outlay maybe?
You could start a business with 50k but you would be massively under resourced. We started London stone with 60k and it was nowhere near enough. It took us 3 years before we started to make any impact. If we had started with 4 x that amount we cold have done it a lot quicker. for the first eighteen months i was doing it alone while my brothers were doing landscaping. i had to literally work myself into the ground to get the business established. Lots of 18-20 hour days with the occasional ghostie thrown in. Gradually we built up clients and then as soon as we could afford it, my younger brother started to work on the stone business and we gradually just clawed our way up the ladder.
Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2013 10:53 am
by Tony McC
local patios and driveways wrote:Tony, you would be the ideal man to set up a paving import business.... 50k outlay maybe?
After my heart attack, I promised myself and my children that I would never, ever again get involved in a business where I had all my capital tied up in stock, plant & machinery, and on-going contracts, and that I would never employ anyone other than a bookkeeper. I worked myself into what will be a premature grave providing jobs for lads and lasses who in return wouldn't piss on me if I was on fire!
It's been suggested all too often over the years, pointed out that I have the ideal vehicle through this website to flog hard-landscaping, but I don't want to be a salesman. As soon as I sell *any* product, my impartiality is compromised. Who would want to read my opinion on whatever it is Marshalls or Steve or Simeon or whoever is trying to sell, if it was known that I was simultaneously promoting my own competing products?
Naaah! I'll stick with what I'm doing. It makes virtually no money, but it carries almost no risk, and when my health finally does give out, no-one will lose a job or their investment. The website and all its content will remain and then it's up to my kids what they want to do with it.
I'm happy enough with the sponsored pages where all those companies that *do* sell paving and the rest can promote themselves and their products while giving me a token payment to help finance the running of the site and the creation of new content, without it compromising my integrity and impartiality.
Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2013 6:39 pm
by lutonlagerlout
I have seen loads of subbies and that end up skint/and/or in poor health through financial worries
my old man had 12 lads direct at 1 point in the 90s
waaaay too much headaches keeping them all busy
plus as you say if someone offered a fiver a day more they were gone
fair play to you tony
LLL