[ubuntu-uk] Lack of support for small business

[Gareth France]

Thanks for that. Yes I have my business plan completed and nobody at the
local fair is direct competition. £500 was an exaggeration of course, to
make my point.

Does anyone else feel a certain energy about the commercial drive for linux
right now? Lots of progress being made on the desktop UI, getting OEM
installs into shops etc. Gradual progress but it's there.

On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 12:08 AM, Rob Beard <rob at esdelle.co.uk> wrote:

> On 18/11/11 23:44, Gareth France wrote:
>
>> I'm not looking for a loan, I need to be able to process credit cards,
>> if you go to a computer fair do you go with £500 in your pocket to buy a
>> pc with? Or do you take your card? To get the card processing I need a
>> business account.
>>
>> No overdraft
>> No loan
>> No risk
>>
>> I still have to fight to get it. But I'm having to fight because I'm
>> selling computers. It's madness!
>>
>
> You might be able to get a merchant account with someone.  Do you have a
> business plan all written out to show the bank?
>
> My wife is currently in the process of setting up a business, luckily
> she's found some pretty good support in business startup workshops in our
> area (Torbay) but she is going through her business plan at the moment and
> it's taking her a long time with so many things she has to think about.
>  She's also not looking get any credit as luckily her business doesn't have
> that much of an outlay.
>
>
> It's possible that the banks maybe fussy about startup companies.  My wife
> ended up going to Santander for her business account and that was before
> she did her business plan, she hasn't banked with them before so she was a
> completely new customer.
>
> You might want to have a look at a business account from Paypal.  When I
> was running my business I managed to set one up and it was quite painless.
>  Although it's not an ideal situation it might help.  It might also be
> worth bearing in mind that some people might not want to go spending 500
> quid at a computer fair anyway.  Sadly the computer market is so overrun
> these days that there is so much competition out there (I found that in my
> area alone there were about 7 other computer companies doing the same sort
> of thing).
>
> Good luck anyway, doing a quick Google search came up with a couple of
> companies offering free trials on credit card machines so maybe you might
> be able to get one from one of those companies.
>
> Rob
>
>
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