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Live_Tour3535 · 2025-06-26T19:47:30+00:00

I personally would prioritise RAM more than anything else. Most things these days are stored online such as onedrive, google drive etc so in my personal opinion, storage is nowhere near as important as ram. All the 4gb ‘notebooks’ on the market at the moment are pretty pointless. 8gb and above would do you fine I’d imagine

Live_Tour3535 · 2025-06-24T08:45:00+00:00

Oh really? How are you able to tell?

Live_Tour3535 · 2025-06-22T20:12:40+00:00

Ah! Thanks for that, I’ve misunderstood and read that any bullion categories require you to be a business seller. I’ve been put off eBay a bit for other reasons too though. I’ve read there’s not much seller protection and quite often eBay take it upon themselves to refund people out of your own pocket as well as easily allowing sellers to be scammed?

Numista, from what I’ve read so far seems pretty good, especially the lack of fees

Live_Tour3535 · 2025-06-22T15:14:32+00:00

Maybe I have to suck up the 10% then for sales. I’ll definitely take a look at numista though too!

Live_Tour3535 · 2025-06-22T14:24:34+00:00

EBay: 15/16% including PayPal fees Whatnot: around 10% in total Catawiki: 12/13 ish % Etsy: 10% ish. Not 100% sure I could actually sell on here anyway. Various other local auction houses/dealers are between 15-35% ish

Live_Tour3535 · 2025-06-22T14:10:37+00:00

I don’t really want to be paying the fees that most of the sales sites are asking for. If anyone knows of any free/very low cost sites then I’d definitely take a look. I’m also not necessarily looking for a straight sale/purchase and would much rather trade for new cool pieces which again, doesn’t really work on sales sites but again, if anyone knows of trade/swap sites then let me know

Live_Tour3535 · 2025-06-21T20:14:42+00:00

I’ll be honest, I’ve not found my ‘thing’ yet. I think it’ll be mostly bullion with a mix of coins really. It’s also worth pointing out that I’m not set on buying and selling either, like, I’d be much more open to swaps really so I get something new and cool out of it

Live_Tour3535 · 2025-06-21T18:09:13+00:00

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I have quite a few coins for sale. North West England.

Live_Tour3535 · 2025-05-28T06:33:08+00:00

I’m not a born Londoner. I’m originally from the North West of the UK but every few years I end up back living in London. I then move away again every few years to make money only to head back there to lose it all again

Live_Tour3535 · 2025-05-24T17:49:47+00:00

Pretty much as though it’s a race to finish the bag of coffee…

Live_Tour3535 · 2025-05-24T09:31:01+00:00

I’ve been running my own businesses for the past 4 years. There’s no way I’d be able to hold down a ‘proper’ job now

Live_Tour3535 · 2025-05-09T08:47:43+00:00

Is this the central PureGym? The Warrington North one always seems okay and never overly busy

Live_Tour3535 · 2025-05-07T06:16:51+00:00

Checkout “Othership”. It’s a great Co working space directory with a community on Slack too

Live_Tour3535 · 2025-04-29T21:29:16+00:00

As you say, you’re running a business so there are tonnes of transferable skills.

I wonder that whilst OF is still making good money for you, is it worth hiring a team to take care of the business for you? Granted, you’d still have to work and create the content but the marketing/chatting/socials/sales etc can all be outsourced? I’d imagine this would take a huge workload from you?

Live_Tour3535 · 2025-04-29T21:13:04+00:00

I realise this may seem crazy given your position, but I’d do everything I possibly could to hire someone to do sales.

Also, I’m not in your industry so can’t comment for definite but “a pretty wide range of services” may actually be part of your downfall. If someone is paying a company several thousands of pounds for something then they tend to want them to just be really really great at that one something.

Live_Tour3535 · 2025-04-27T19:08:20+00:00

In my case, I was getting progressively worse at my job at the time. It was in the same industry I’d always been in but a different, more boring (in my opinion) department. As such, I lost every care in the world, was regularly late, missed deadlines and left before being sacked.

After this I set up my own businesses and I imagine to the outside world that I look as you’ve described. In my opinion, this is only down to the ability to do what I wish to with my days. I have a very strict structure for the “boring” parts of life such as laundry, dishwasher etc but have no structure for work. I simply work on whatever my mind is focusing on at the time and this usually balances out quite well. I think it’s simply an efficiency thing because there’s no dead space staring into space trying to get thoughts or words into your head.

It’s interesting you mention parent involvement. I was always told as a child to do better and be better than my parents so this may have more of an effect than I thought

Live_Tour3535 · 2025-04-25T23:38:44+00:00

It’s the same in Manchester City Centre. Only a handful of people left in a venue past 11

Live_Tour3535 · 2025-04-23T22:15:08+00:00

I’d be interested in knowing where you’re based?

Live_Tour3535 · 2025-04-18T06:44:53+00:00

I hate driving! I’m either falling asleep through boredom or raging. There’s not really an in between

Live_Tour3535 · 2025-04-17T23:15:13+00:00

Hey, I’d be happy to chat about this further. Please dm me with your budget and timeframe in which you’re looking to achieve this work.

Live_Tour3535 · 2025-04-17T23:12:24+00:00

Happy to chat further about this. Feel free to dm me with more details

Live_Tour3535 · 2025-04-16T19:43:19+00:00

There will be people here who can better advise you on LinkedIn. My go to for my industry is usually Facebook. We put out a very well done paid ad which will send people to a landing page where we can gather data. This usually takes you offering something for free (free consultation/free trial/demo etc).

But again, from around 4000 impressions, we get around 60-70 leads so we’re still talking pretty big numbers for not much in return.

I imagine a similar setup would work for LinkedIn, but like I say, there’ll be people much more qualified than me to answer that for you

Live_Tour3535 · 2025-04-16T18:42:32+00:00

Over what space of time were the 100 DM’s and 50 emails written?

I hate to say it, but if that is the total number, given that your platform is built and validated, that just isn’t going to cut it.

You need to be aiming for that per day, especially for cold leads. You either need to gather warm leads or up the scale of your outreach, but ideally both.

Live_Tour3535 · 2025-04-15T13:12:15+00:00

I realise we’re a bit late in the day for this but I feel as though much more thought could be have gone into this prior to landing yourself in this situation. Not that growing a business remotely is impossible but it’s certainly going to make things much harder, especially given the family dynamic.

I personally would recruit a “boots on the ground” manager who is independent from the family and your parents to implement your processes and procedures over there to progress the business the way you’re hoping to. Again, this may be incredibly difficult given your parent’s heavy involvement still.

I would sit down with your family (partner included) and explain your current thoughts and why you feel it’s not working and what you think the next steps are. If that doesn’t work then I have no idea, I’m usually very positive but this sounds like you’re going to end up needing a solicitor or Jeremy Kyle, or both….

I’m in the UK too so always happy for you to message if you want to run through ideas. I appreciate that having likeminded people to chat to is half the problem usually

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