Reviewing JCT's all day, the biggest snooze fest of all time. Hopefully I'll get a dose of explosive diarrhoea so I can go home.
Yeah thought that might be the case I’ll try and get a pic of this girl called Sway I’ve been chatting to from one of the boatplane companies. She’s mixed race, her Dad is native Nuu-chal-nulth and her mum is French Canadian. Absolutely smoking hot, I’ll ask her if I can get a pic for my ‘travel blog’ when I see her next Tuesday. Would have seen her today, but I’ve postponed my trip north until next week as the weather is a bit **** here atm
Another great place for a swim. This is on the inlet side of the Pacific Ocean, so calm waters and lush forests. But ****ing cold as fook in the water.
Some good news for my business. Had a meeting with somebody here who I’d planned to meet up with before I came out. They are up for importing some of my products. I need to work out some distribution costs, and export taxes etc, but basically there’s a big gap in the market here for what I do and there’s the right demographic here to make it work. Not sure it will be a huge money spinner given the cost of exporting + tax but it will be nice to take my business international
The other good news is you can now charge your holiday costs to the business by claiming it as a business trip.
Haven’t really thought about that. As you know I’m a one man business, so if I’m going to expand then that would be something to consider. Is that what you did with your business back in the UK
I sold the name to a competitor. I figured if I got fed up here I have enough knowledge of the cuisine to start anew. As you know I'm opening a new restaurant here within the next two months but it would work just as easily in the UK.
It’s good that you sold that brand on. I’ve seen a lot of people get tired running their own businesses and just wind them down, when they could have either sold the whole thing as a going concern or sold on the branding and name. I’m kind of at that point where my business needs to expand, but I’m not sure whether to invest into it and up the production and distribution, which would mean a new premises, staff and all the associated costs that go with it, (and I’m not sure I want the headache of managing buildings and teams again) Or whether to look at doing it another way ? The franchising option seems attractive to me. It could also work internationally that way. I’ll have to look into that a bit more as I must admit I don’t really know how all of that works.
There's plenty of info on franchises out there and a franchise has less chance of going belly up than an independent start up. Worth considering.
