tips for starting a trade business
Setting up a trade business comes with its own challenges. Benjamin Dyer of Powered Now suggests six ways to ensure your business gets off to a flying start 1. Do a great job 2. Build up a good reputation 3. Be fair to your customers 4. Remember it's a business 5. Get organised 6. Be on the right side of the law This might be hard, but before you consider starting a business you need to ask yourself how good you are at the job. Being fired from previous jobs for bad work is the worst possible reason to start up. If you do, your experience on your own will be even worse. The truth is, being good at the job is a prerequisite to everything else. "Know your strengths and weaknesses," advises Alan Cope of Southwest Spas . When you run your own business, mistakes show up quickly in disputes with customers, failure to pay and even being referred to Trading Standards. Customer recommendation based on your reputation is the best way to get work in the trade business and 70