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    Marketing content to listen to

    MARKETING 
    The I Love Marketing podcast. I highly recommend the first 7 or 8 episodes which explain the backgrounds of the hosts (Joe Polish and Dean Jackson) and explains marketing principles. It is mainly direct response marketing but is a great listen. I've listened to those episodes at least 3 times...
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    £2017 for 2017 Pay The Bills Through Lead Generation

    EXECUTION 
    I like the goal, good luck. To confirm the mechanics, you are putting together a website which will mimic a local service business. Then get traffic from AdWords and sell then lead to your contact in the industry?
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    28 Year Old, Married, Father of Three from the UK - Need Fastlane

    INTRO 
    Hello fellow Welshman Good luck on your journey. Where do consider your value to others lies?
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    Need advice in exhausting online advertising for psychotherapy practice

    MARKETING 
    Check out the I Love Marketing Podcast. It is about Direct Response marketing but it discusses marketing in general. The first 10-15 episodes give the backgrounds to the presenters, their stories of building 'local' businesses and how what they have done can apply to you is well worth a listen...
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    Getting into property (Help with the learning process)

    Do you own a home or do you rent? In the first instance, there could be benefits to buying your own place and paying down a mortgage rather than paying rent to someone to pay down theirs. Some things for you to consider: Buy To Let mortgages tend to require a bigger deposit than buying a house...
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    How do we help people who REALLY need help?

    PEOPLE 
    I concur with the sentiment that it requires huge capital. Furthermore, the people who have these types problems do not have the wherewithal to pay to have the problems solved. Generally speaking the people who need this form of assistance are doing well if they make by on living off the land...
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    Advice For My Website ! Please Help !

    EXECUTION 
    'Good artists copy, great artists steal'. My suggestion would be to find equivalent sites to yours in other markets and take inspiration from descriptions. Doesn't need to be said but don't directly copy. This model has been done before and inspiration can be taken from their approach. Take...
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    How do you price your services?

    MARKETING 
    This is thought provoking Andy. I've encountered this issue. The 'willingness' to help someone is a mind set to establish but then marketing yourself, even to provide a free service, remains a challenge. It takes selling to persuade a business owner/someone who needs help to let you try to do...
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    Software for Starting Small Online Community

    WEB/DIGITAL 
    No worries. Its a good product if you have an idea for a web app. Takes a bit of learning but with the amount of plugins, has a lot of potential if you can find a problem to solve with it.
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    Companies That Do Cold Calling ( I Need A Reliable Company)

    I don't know the background but I share @Blair's sentiment. It is an annoying task to do but speaking to customers is always a good way to learn about them.
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    Software for Starting Small Online Community

    WEB/DIGITAL 
    If you are looking to bootstrap and build it yourself (albeit without coding) then check out Bubble. Its a web app builder (rather than a CMS like WordPress) which uses plugins to connect to third party services. So Paypal and Stripe are plugins. Discourse (the forum software) is available as a...
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    WP.com or WP.org

    WEB/DIGITAL 
    I concur with the preference for WordPress.org. .com is great for easily setting up a blog for someone who is using it casually or for someone who is writing a lot of content. The customisation is okay but limited. .org gives you the structure of a modern website and an array of tools to make...
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    I HAVE A NEED SOLVE MY PROBLEM

    Sorry I didn't fully understand this comment. You can arrange for the business to switch to a cheaper tariff, therefore helping them by saving them money. But I didn't grasp how you take payment being different from the standard. Could you elaborate? Also re-read your introduction, particularly...
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    I'm 100% committed to starting a countertop resurfacing company. Pleath let me you what you think.

    As a thought, why don't you reach out to someone in your network who you believe would need your service. Do you have any friends or family members that rent out homes or are renovating (now or soon)? You could ask them to cover your costs in materials and if they are satisfied they could be a...
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    I HAVE A NEED SOLVE MY PROBLEM

    I haven't tried it but marketing via LinkedIn is supposed to be effective for those targeting 'business' types. You can target prospects by parameters such as job title, company and industry. There is no gate keeper like a receptionist during cold call. You can publish content on there for...
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