looking for business partner.

SunScape · #1 08-11-2010, 12:51 PM

i am looking for a partner to help with my new venture. recently i have moved to London and seeing the potential of a loft conversion business i set out to get a loft conversion project and i succeeded. i have just completed a ?42,000 job and i am hungry for more. my problem is that i have limited website knowledge and feel left behind as my competitors all have websites and after slyly asking some of them where the majority of their work comes from it boiled down to a website. and as i worked for one of my competitors as a subcontractor i gained relevant knowledge to enable me to continue in this field of work. what i am looking for is someone who can build me a professional website and do all the relevant things associated with it ie seo, advertising etc.you will have full control of the website and i am willing to either give a proffit share of my company or will pay an agreed sum for each job brought in by the site. i have the rest of the business covered ie contractors, admin,insurances tax etc.

if anyone is interested or have any ideas feel free to contact me THANKS.

#2 08-11-2010, 05:59 PM

You can get a well made website for only a couple of hundred ???s Patrick, I would of thought it would make more sense to reinvest some of your profits from your ?42k sale than a messy profit split?

admagic · #3 09-11-2010, 08:17 AM

The problem is - and he rightly identifies it - he isnt after a website, he is after web sales, and not many web designers build the right foundation for SEO
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(dont want to start that argument again, but its a fact that most of the sob stories I hear from local businesses in hard times, are at least partly because the sites they were given had no chance of leveraging the traffic that does exist - they are like shop windows sat in the middle of a desert for all the traffic they get - not least - pushing the analogy harder - ALL the signage is wrong, to say what the business does, at SEO level)

Not promising anything, but I will look at loft conversion at keyword levels and report back see what the possibilities are.

admagic · #4 09-11-2010, 08:30 AM

I have checked sunscape....I can get you a lot of traffic in that market - and might do it as a JV or % - the problem would be the audit trail, to know which jobs came via the website. Worth a discussion anyway

Would also need to know how big an area you can trade over.

SunScape · #5 10-11-2010, 05:43 PM

HELLO,
SORRY FOR THE SLOW RESPONSE,

I would mainly like to cover central and the north of London but also have oppurtunity to trade in the midland as i have good contacts in that area. the site would be my main if not the only way i advertise my company and as for knowing what job came from the site i dont really know a way that can be done ideas welcome.

i will pay ?2000 for the first job that comes from the site and i am willing to draw up a legally binding contract for this, the first ?2000 will cover the site build and the time taken then i will pay ?600 for each job that comes from the website thereafter. i am willing to put this into a legal contract also. As it is possible to win 2-3 loft conversion contracts a week this can be a good earner to the right website manager.

i look forward to a prosperous new year and the oppurtunity of working with someone with key internet knowledge.

again ideas and critisism welcome

Thanks Patrick.

#6 10-11-2010, 07:02 PM

You certainly seen to be making an interesting offer and Admagic is quite right it needs a variety of skills not just a web-designer (my bad). If your figures are correct, it is something I could put a team on to give you the best of every skill required, anything to back those figures up?

SunScape · #7 10-11-2010, 09:16 PM

As stated I'm willing to draw up a contract. Basically the more jobs pulled in by the site the more the site manager earns the more my company earns everyones happy. I want to keep it simple from the offset and I think the fixed price plan I have set out will keep the whole thing simple. With a simple straight forward approach everyone knows where there at from the start.

admagic · #8 10-11-2010, 09:33 PM

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Originally Posted by SunScape

As stated I'm willing to draw up a contract. Basically the more jobs pulled in by the site the more the site manager earns the more my company earns everyones happy. I want to keep it simple from the offset and I think the fixed price plan I have set out will keep the whole thing simple. With a simple straight forward approach everyone knows where there at from the start.

Did you see the PM? I am interested:
However there are a lot of details to iron out.

SunScape · #9 10-11-2010, 09:46 PM

Yeah I received the pm I can't reply because I haven't had more than 7 posts yet

admagic · #10 10-11-2010, 09:58 PM

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Originally Posted by SunScape

Yeah I received the pm I can't reply because I haven't had more than 7 posts yet

There is a second PM - anyway it shows you now have 10 posts.....leave the call till tomorrow am please...

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