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We exhibited at the NEC Business Start Up Exhibition a few years ago. To be honest it was great fun and great experience, but it was expensive and although we made some sales and some good contacts, we certainly never recouped the outlay

But we have done smaller ones, where stalls cost hundreds instead of thousands, and these can be more rewarding. Maybe try some smaller shows and see if the exhibition model is viable?

Are you talking with an idea of buying into the business?

I know someone on here started a Biz Card business, he sold metal business cards. The idea was that they were gimicky and stood out, but the reality was they were too expensive, so no demand meant no business Just food for thought.

If any professional SEO company claimed that 40% of their clients have been adversely affected by a Google update, then you can be pretty much rest assured they aren't doing things by the book! It really is a tough time for SEO companies at the moment, as they already had a bad reputation as an industry, and stuff like this hardly helps

If I outsourced my SEO, then I assume I'm paying for expert specialist knowledge, that is at all time current, and any techniques or optimising employed is both transparent, and fully above board.

Unfortunately, it seems most of the time, you are simply handed over to the office junior or a $2 per hour overseas worker who can barley speak English, or at least that's my experience

Be interested to hear if you have any joy, best of luck

Actual Traffic, Facebook and Twitter, with Google+ being a long way down.

Actual business? None of them

lol it's not just me that does that then

Hi Jay

Used to be members of both Coventry and Birmingham Chambers of Commerce. All we used them for were networking meetings and events, which in hindsight we could have done, by going to any of the multitude of local networking groups, where you can normally go the first time free/guest or a pay a token fee. After a while, kept seeing same faces at the networking events, so knocked it on the head.

Coventry was big on "speed networking" which I did once, and never again! Sales pitched to death in 2 minutes

Used to get lots of stuff through about various free workshops, which to be fair never took them up, as was always too busy...

Let both Chambers lapse after 12 months, and I still get various offers to go to this or that event and go as a guest, so for us, they weren't worth the money.

Spoken to other people who have had more positive experiences, and who like the opportunity to connect with other businesses, and if you are looking for courses and workshops, I suppose it's alright, but it seemed to me (or was) expensive for what you got.

Are you sure these were above board? I normally get emailed every few months telling me people are about to buy mylocalservices.xyz and I need to secure them quickly. Normally originates from China and it's just a scam.


Blimey, interesting question. As pure speculation, unless someone desperately wants that name (in which case they would be talking to you) I'd suspect not that much

Maybe the Domain Names would be worth something? But the Ltd company could be called anything then you are simply "trading as", and make the trading name a catchy title.

The thing with domain names, you see some that go for thousands, and think "I've got better ones than that", but when it comes to selling on the likes of flippa.com you end up with nothing other than listing fees I've tried selling a few domains mylocaltaxi.com microtrader.co.uk wheelbrace.com, and not had a sniff...

There are plenty of business selling type sites, but if you want a response, you will end up having to take out a premium type listing, which will rack up monthly charges. As you are not selling a complete business, just a name and domains, is it worth it?

If you think the proposition is genuinely worth X and you have a budget of Y which you are willing to spend in order to achieve X, then go for it

It seems a shame though if you have an established business, and you have spent so long advertising and marketing it under It Has 2 be done. Starting with a new name seems a lot of potential pain?

Looks like there has been some sabre rattling from Argentina's President as she tries to use the 30th anniversary of the Falklands/Malvinas (depending which side of the fence you are) to score domestic political points.

"The prime minister told Ms Fernandez de Kirchner she should "respect the views" of islanders who are taking part in a referendum on the issue of control... "I am not proposing a full discussion now on the Falklands but I hope you have noted that they are holding a referendum and you should respect their views."..."

BBC News - David Cameron confronts Fernandez over Falkland Islands

Mr Cameron is going up in my expectations

I love the comment from Nick Robinson:

"This was what Churchill called jaw jaw not war war but it was diplomatic posturing designed for domestic consumption