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lozzypop1 · Certified MILF! Joined: 04 Jan 2006 Karma :

Ok on a serious note has anyone set up a small business or such?
My friend and myself want to start up selling biker/fetish clothing and jewellery and really don't know where to start!
any suggestions?
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Bullet · Trackday Trickster Joined: 06 Jan 2006 Karma :

id start with writing up a very thorough buisness plan of what is it you want to sell, how your going to sell it, who will buy it, predicted expenses e.g premises website design, stock e.t.c, markup, profit, the works with ALOT of market research the better and more acurate the idea you can get of how the buisness will run before its actually running the smoother and easyer it will be. then you have something to go see a proper new buisness advisor with. the ones at banks are usually free for a consultation but they will have the agenda of making money out of you. (id go see lots of them to try and see through the bullshit) indipendant advisors will be impartial but you have to pay for their time! its probably worth going to see the inland revenue aswell they can help explain how your taxation and the like will change. hope thats of some help! Thumbs Up

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colin1 · Captain Safety Joined: 17 Feb 2005 Karma :

you could do it as an unoffical hobby on ebay for a while before quitting day jobs
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Hex · Party Boy Joined: 04 Feb 2002 Karma :

Im in the process of starting up as a franchisee.

Different to going it alone as such as you have the support of an organisation behind you, possibly look see if theres a chain of fetish/bike clothing shops you could open one up as a franchisee?

https://www.british-franchise.org/

Down sids to this is you have to have money to invest initially, but the upside is you should get the support and buying power from the large group of shops.
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biker-dj · Spanner Monkey Joined: 10 Apr 2005 Karma :

DAF · Trackday Trickster Joined: 25 Jul 2005 Karma :

loz2K6

I've put some advice on another "business start up" thread which you might find useful. It focusses on the need to put together a business plan and rather than post the same narrative in full I'll just give you the link instead.

https://www.bikechatforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=76149

Best of luck Thumbs Up

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