How would you like to learn all about starting, running, operating and developing a successful business offshore, at home or abroad from one of the cleverest business brains in Britain?
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Wed, November 25, 2009 - 10:44 am EET
The question posed by the title of this article is a trick one really – because if you didn’t want to know how to really run a successful business abroad you wouldn’t be reading this would you! However, let me guess, by now you will probably have read a whole load of rubbish on the Internet about how you can run a business effortlessly and make a mint. The dream is certainly about doing just that, but come on, we all know the reality is at least a few miles away from such a suggestion.
Yes, one can create a business doing something one loves and this can make it seem almost effortless. Yes, one can automate certain parts of a business or employ others to take care of aspects of it, but there will always be some effort involved in the creation and ongoing management, maintenance and development of a business – therefore we are not going to pretend otherwise.
If you are seriously interested in starting out and surviving in business – whether at home or abroad – and you would like to learn about surviving this recession and the next, maximising profits and minimising tax, spotting scams, trading internationally, getting a company and bank account in place even if you’ve been made bankrupt and many more essential subjects beside, read on because we may have found the best place for you to glean all of this critical knowledge…
A long-time preferred partner of ours at Shelter Offshore is Charles Farran – he of Amanda J Molyneux & Company Ltd., – a true genius in our times when it comes to anything to do with the clever yet correct management of any company’s business. Charles is also a popular figure on the international business seminar scene with one recent attendee at a seminar in Gibraltar commenting that what “really ‘struck a chord’ with me about Charles, was his integrity, his actions displayed this far more than his words… I was educated from start to finish, in fact I was blown away! I liked his character, every topic he addressed was thrilling, because of his depth of knowledge and experience in this industry.” And if you’re wondering why we’re mentioning this, it is because Charles is leading his very own seminar that will be absolutely appropriate to anyone who wants to start out on a new venture overseas.
An overriding desire that many of us have is to sack the boss and run our own lives and be in charge of our own destinies. For an increasing number of people who have become dissatisfied with the way things work in this country of ours, part of that desire is to move abroad and start a new business – after all, there are often a great number of opportunities around the world that an expatriate can bring a new perspective to and create a business out of. But where on earth do you begin, and how do you avoid the pitfalls that can face anyone starting out in business? The answer does not lie in an eBook on the Internet about making millions from doing nothing, however it does perhaps lie in receiving the best advice from one of the most appropriate people to advise you before you even begin brainstorming what you would like to do abroad!
The seminar we’re telling you about covers the following topics to name but a few: -
1) Surviving the recession
2) Setting up your company - limited company or sole trader and partnerships
3) Developing, funding and marketing your business
4) Maximizing your profits and minimizing your overheads including taxation!
5) Debtors and creditors
6) Dealing with banks & opening a company bank account
7) Setting up your company even though you have bad credit perhaps or have been made bankrupt
8) The ethics of modern business
9) Trading internationally and the legal use of offshore companies
10) Invoicing, bad debts and how to avoid them
11) Web based businesses, developing your website, the Google ratings game on-line business forums, merchant card providers and accepting on-line payments
12) Escrow & PayMaster Agents
13) Avoiding scams and how to spot them
It will be intense, it will be focused, it will be the best time you ever invest in yourself and the future of any business you decide to create - and it is being led by the self-professed Business Anarchist himself, our friend Charles Farran! We defy you to miss this opportunity – and we will stand by the fact that if you want to have the very best chance in business, you need to attend this seminar! It is being held on Sunday the 3rd of January 2010 at The Victory Services Club in London, and for complete details, visit the Business Anarchist’s website!