thanks for the advice mike! my business owes exactly ZERO dollars. I don't even have debtors accounts with my labs. I am still too small to do that, and actually it is a really safe way to run things. If my customers disappeared tomorrow, I would owe nothing and own everything. It can be a pain in that my clients have to pay me at the time of their sitting/when they place their orders rather than when their prints come back, BUT it does save alot of time trying to track people down for their money! Been thinking of taking out a loan for that *istD though! (j/k, I am going to see how things pan out, looks likes Stan might be shopping for me on that one!) tan. ----- Original Message ----- From: "mike wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2003 5:29 AM Subject: Re: card storage in the field
> Hi, > > Tanya Mayer Photography wrote (on Fri, 3 Oct 2003 04:25:11 +1000): > > > <snip> indirect marketing > > and word of mouth are your best friends in a small town <snip> > > They are your best friends anywhere. It is because you are a small > business. My company (five people) gets most of its custom from > recommended customers. In the beginning, we spent a lot of money (in > our terms) on various forms of advertising and got precisely zero > response. Once we found a friend who could give us some work, it grew > from there. > > As business grows, more work comes in until you reach the point where > you have to have more staff; at some point you will have to make the > decision to either advertise enough that there _will_ be some return or > stop growing. > > This is assuming you do not subscribe to the usual business model, which > seems to involve borrowing shedloads of money from the bank and then > spending all your time servicing the debt. > > mike >
