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Telecom plus has been short-listed for the title of “Company of the Year” at this year's PLC Awards Dinner.
This event was founded in 1987 to reward excellence in the smaller quoted company sector.
The winners of each of the eight award categories are presented with their awards at the annual PLC Awards Dinner, which is "the" City event of the year. It is attended by 1,500 guests, including quoted companies, investment banks, fund managers, investment analysts, and corporate advisors.
Voting is open to members of the public, and anyone can cast a vote online at the following address:
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Thursday, 12 February 2009
Thursday, 5 February 2009
Beauty or bonuses?
Where once upon a time much of us had a disposable income, the current credit crunch, and the return to thrift, has jeopardised many selling based businesses. Avon, for example used to garner those with free time a commission based income, while obviously meeting the needs of its customers. These days potential customers are more likely to be found poring over their gas bills rather then browsing for luxury purchases.
Utility warehouse was in a similar vein to the kleeneze and betaware enterprises, but more importantly, not only does it enable people to save money in these troubled times, it also offers its representatives an unprecedented opportunity to earn unlimited amounts. By offering people a chance to reduce their bills Utility Warehouse staff generate not only a one-off commission, but a constant source of residual income. Gas, electric, phone and broadband are all supplied by this company, recommended by WHICH? Magazine, and every time a customer which has signed up to reduce their bills and uses one of these services, the representative profits. Imagine being paid every time someone you've helped to save money switches on a light or television, turns the heat on, or picks up the phone to make a call? Utility warehouse does just that, paying you a percentage of each bill, which they continue to do every single time the services are used!
As you can imagine, rather than the one off profit offered by many companies, this opportunity continues to earn you money and just as importantly, help more people who want to save money. It really is a situation in which everyone emerges the winner!! This part-time/full-time and hugely flexible venture has enabled people to retire in a few years, rather than generations, and especially in the current climate is growing and growing. Incentives are easily achieved, and range from holiday cruises to free cars. The best bit being you really are your own boss, and your doing something positive.
http://www.yourplacebusiness.co.uk/ - Utilities Warehouse Business Opportunity
http://www.yourplacemarketing.co.uk/otherservicesbusiness.asp - Business breakdown
http://www.yourplaceutilities.co.uk/ - Cheaper utilities like gas, electricity, broadband, mobile and landline phones
http://www.yourplacemarketing.co.uk/otherservicesbusiness.asp - Utilities and other services
Why Utilities?
The current financial situation is seeing everyone take a much more conservative and cautious approach to their finances. Gone are the days of haphazard and reckless spending. Thrift is the watchword of the day, and it was enabling and encouraging their customers to keep track of their spending and organize their finances which allowed the Utilities Warehouse discount club to enter, in winter of 2008, a time when many companies were going bust, the FTSE 250.
A rapidly expanding concern, genuinely trying to enable their customers to take advantage of huge discounts, and relying on word of mouth and customer recommendations, they trade as Telecoms Plus, and bulk buy from all the major companies in the UK. Rather than waste money on massively expensive advertising and pass those inflated charges to the customer, Utilities Warehouse sells the Utilities at hugely reduced rates.
Providing gas, electricity, phone, broadband, Broadcall, mobile phone services and blackberries at lower and more reasonable tariffs has enabled Utility warehouse to expand and their satisfied customers cannot praise them enough. Huge savings are available in every arena of utility, and hundreds more are jumping on the bandwagon every day...................
The range of services available includes:
Home Phone: Guaranteed savings on call charges compared to BT’s best prices, with free calls to UK and many popular international landline destinations. With line rental costing just £8.99 a month, you can easily save over £50 per year, compared with the price paid by most BT residential customers.
Mobile Phone: ValuePay (the pay as you go service) offers fantastic value at just 12p per minute at any time for all standard calls (even including mobiles on other networks). Utilities warehouse also offer two great pay monthly tariffs: ValueTalk: which is the UK’s cheapest bundled tariff, costing from just 310 a month, and also ValueCall, which combines the UK’s cheapest monthly line rental with calls at just 8p per minute, including calls to mobiles on other networks. Blackberries are also available.
Gas and Electricity: Utilities Warehouse offers a Triple Value Guarantee. This states that the gas will always be cheaper than that provided by British Gas, no matter where the customer lives in the UK. For the electricity, they guarantee their prices will always be cheaper than the prices charged by the regional electricity supplier, for their customers. Finally, for the peace of mind of all utility Warehouse customers, they guarantee that their prices will always remain competitive with those charged by the Big Six energy suppliers.
Broadband: Utility Warehouse provides a choice of high quality and low cost broadband services, with free technical supports.
Broadcall: The great value service offered by Utilities Warehouse combines low cost telephone calls, line rental and a high speed broadband internet connection at an amazingly low package price.
http://www.yourplaceutilities.co.uk/ - Cheaper utilites like gas, electricity, broadband, mobile and landline phones
http://www.yourplacemarketing.co.uk/otherservices.asp - Utilites and other services
http://www.yourplacebusiness.co.uk/ - Utilities Warehouse Business Opportunity
http://www.yourplacemarketing.co.uk/otherservicesbusiness.asp - Business breakdown
A rapidly expanding concern, genuinely trying to enable their customers to take advantage of huge discounts, and relying on word of mouth and customer recommendations, they trade as Telecoms Plus, and bulk buy from all the major companies in the UK. Rather than waste money on massively expensive advertising and pass those inflated charges to the customer, Utilities Warehouse sells the Utilities at hugely reduced rates.
Providing gas, electricity, phone, broadband, Broadcall, mobile phone services and blackberries at lower and more reasonable tariffs has enabled Utility warehouse to expand and their satisfied customers cannot praise them enough. Huge savings are available in every arena of utility, and hundreds more are jumping on the bandwagon every day...................
The range of services available includes:
Home Phone: Guaranteed savings on call charges compared to BT’s best prices, with free calls to UK and many popular international landline destinations. With line rental costing just £8.99 a month, you can easily save over £50 per year, compared with the price paid by most BT residential customers.
Mobile Phone: ValuePay (the pay as you go service) offers fantastic value at just 12p per minute at any time for all standard calls (even including mobiles on other networks). Utilities warehouse also offer two great pay monthly tariffs: ValueTalk: which is the UK’s cheapest bundled tariff, costing from just 310 a month, and also ValueCall, which combines the UK’s cheapest monthly line rental with calls at just 8p per minute, including calls to mobiles on other networks. Blackberries are also available.
Gas and Electricity: Utilities Warehouse offers a Triple Value Guarantee. This states that the gas will always be cheaper than that provided by British Gas, no matter where the customer lives in the UK. For the electricity, they guarantee their prices will always be cheaper than the prices charged by the regional electricity supplier, for their customers. Finally, for the peace of mind of all utility Warehouse customers, they guarantee that their prices will always remain competitive with those charged by the Big Six energy suppliers.
Broadband: Utility Warehouse provides a choice of high quality and low cost broadband services, with free technical supports.
Broadcall: The great value service offered by Utilities Warehouse combines low cost telephone calls, line rental and a high speed broadband internet connection at an amazingly low package price.
http://www.yourplaceutilities.co.uk/ - Cheaper utilites like gas, electricity, broadband, mobile and landline phones
http://www.yourplacemarketing.co.uk/otherservices.asp - Utilites and other services
http://www.yourplacebusiness.co.uk/ - Utilities Warehouse Business Opportunity
http://www.yourplacemarketing.co.uk/otherservicesbusiness.asp - Business breakdown
Monday, 22 December 2008
Why use a property management service?
Why use property management services is a question all landlords should ask themselves before they begin to rent their property. Surely we can do it all ourselves we ask but is it all that easy? Unfortunately, I don’t think it’s as easy as that. I'll explain.
Being a Landlord can be done part-time or full-time but no matter how much time you are able to dedicate to it, it is definitely a business us as landlords need to take seriously. For a start, everyday that property is left empty, it means we are losing money. Businesses should not be losing money. As well as losing on potential income, landlords also lose out on paying council tax and utilities as it is transferred back into his/her name. Surely, it’s better to drop your rental income rather than leave the property empty for weeks on end. Empty properties are an expensive business.Next, you need to find the tenant.
Finding a tenant can be easy (if you’re lucky) or difficult (depending on how competitive your rental value is). Most likely as a landlord, you will be looking to save as money as possible so you would be either using a free ads website like gumtree or some sort of tenant find service like http://www.yourplacemarketing.co.uk. Whenever I used free website adverts, I found the people that answered my advert were either not-interested, timewasters or very difficult to convince even though my property was in immaculate condition and cheap in comparison to other properties in the area. Tenant find services are good and it’s a good source for finding the right tenant but both these choices still leave the landlord with the stress of selecting their tenant and managing them. With finding tenants, a good property management company like http://www.edenjosh.com will use different portals that landlords do not have in their arsenal to find a selection of tenants appropriate for the accommodation available.
Agencies also credit check the potential tenants. Independent landlords usually miss out this step at their peril as they try to minimise their costs. If as a landlord, you do not follow these procedures to protect your interests, it could become very expensive later on. Good property management companies will definitely follow the right procedures to make sure the tenants moving into your property can afford the rent and will look after your property. As an independent landlord, the tenant will move in and could make many phone calls regarding a range of issues like “can we put a shelf up”, “the neighbours are a nuisance” and hopefully not “the boiler is not working” a landlord’s nightmare sentence. Again, a good agency will handle these phone calls and only pass on the relevant information required for the landlord. Agencies can also sort out your issues like adding selves or fixing boilers with no hassle to the landlord. It would just be invoiced on the next rent due.
If you have not done your homework with your tenant, or you just get some back luck, then you might get a tenant that is malicious or maybe just cannot afford to pay their rent. This is when the experts really pay for themselves. They will continue to chase the rent until it is paid. If it’s still not paid, it starts to become a legal issue where the expertise of a good agent can advise on what steps to take next in order to recover your rent or evict your bad tenant.
To conclude, this business is very difficult, especially if you are a part-time landlord. If you do not mind the in-and-outs of property management, then by all means choose to do it yourself as you will definitely save yourself some money (but I do not recommend you skipping stages of the process like tenant vetting as this could prove costly later). If you are a part-time landlord, maybe you have another job or just do not have the time to be handling tenant grievances, I would fully suggest you use an agency like Eden josh to handle your rental affairs and have some peace of mind knowing that your property is looked after, your rental income is coming in and you will get your property back safe and sound.
Being a Landlord can be done part-time or full-time but no matter how much time you are able to dedicate to it, it is definitely a business us as landlords need to take seriously. For a start, everyday that property is left empty, it means we are losing money. Businesses should not be losing money. As well as losing on potential income, landlords also lose out on paying council tax and utilities as it is transferred back into his/her name. Surely, it’s better to drop your rental income rather than leave the property empty for weeks on end. Empty properties are an expensive business.Next, you need to find the tenant.
Finding a tenant can be easy (if you’re lucky) or difficult (depending on how competitive your rental value is). Most likely as a landlord, you will be looking to save as money as possible so you would be either using a free ads website like gumtree or some sort of tenant find service like http://www.yourplacemarketing.co.uk. Whenever I used free website adverts, I found the people that answered my advert were either not-interested, timewasters or very difficult to convince even though my property was in immaculate condition and cheap in comparison to other properties in the area. Tenant find services are good and it’s a good source for finding the right tenant but both these choices still leave the landlord with the stress of selecting their tenant and managing them. With finding tenants, a good property management company like http://www.edenjosh.com will use different portals that landlords do not have in their arsenal to find a selection of tenants appropriate for the accommodation available.
Agencies also credit check the potential tenants. Independent landlords usually miss out this step at their peril as they try to minimise their costs. If as a landlord, you do not follow these procedures to protect your interests, it could become very expensive later on. Good property management companies will definitely follow the right procedures to make sure the tenants moving into your property can afford the rent and will look after your property. As an independent landlord, the tenant will move in and could make many phone calls regarding a range of issues like “can we put a shelf up”, “the neighbours are a nuisance” and hopefully not “the boiler is not working” a landlord’s nightmare sentence. Again, a good agency will handle these phone calls and only pass on the relevant information required for the landlord. Agencies can also sort out your issues like adding selves or fixing boilers with no hassle to the landlord. It would just be invoiced on the next rent due.
If you have not done your homework with your tenant, or you just get some back luck, then you might get a tenant that is malicious or maybe just cannot afford to pay their rent. This is when the experts really pay for themselves. They will continue to chase the rent until it is paid. If it’s still not paid, it starts to become a legal issue where the expertise of a good agent can advise on what steps to take next in order to recover your rent or evict your bad tenant.
To conclude, this business is very difficult, especially if you are a part-time landlord. If you do not mind the in-and-outs of property management, then by all means choose to do it yourself as you will definitely save yourself some money (but I do not recommend you skipping stages of the process like tenant vetting as this could prove costly later). If you are a part-time landlord, maybe you have another job or just do not have the time to be handling tenant grievances, I would fully suggest you use an agency like Eden josh to handle your rental affairs and have some peace of mind knowing that your property is looked after, your rental income is coming in and you will get your property back safe and sound.
Friday, 12 December 2008
Why should I use a tenant find service?
Landlords need tenants to pay for their mortgage.
Landlords need tenants in their property as soon as possible so that their property is not left empty.
The tenant and landlord relationship is often fraught with difficulty, especially where property damage, deposits and rents are concerned. Finding a tenant is not difficult, but finding the right tenant is an entirely different matter. Traditional advertising in local newspapers and classified advertisements can produce a horde of enquiries, but this can be expensive and not always successful as well as many landlords being subjected to fraud and timewasters.
Lettings agencies for landlords can be expensive and they are probably best for landlords that are not “hands on” with their tenants. The lettings market is massive in the UK and there is no doubt that agencies are useful as well as profitable but there are many landlords that feel they need to control the type of tenants that reside in their property. It’s only been recently that tenant credit checking has been made available to landlords. If becoming a landlord a business, then it must be treated this way, therefore investment into finding the right tenants and vetting them to making sure they are appropriate for your property is extremely necessary.
There are many places where you can post tenant listings. Most of the free property listing services can be risky and may attract the wrong type of tenant. Others allow you to post for free, but you need to pay tens of pounds in subscription fees to receive any enquiry.
Therefore, there is no doubt that there is a market for tenant find services. They start from £30 up to £100 depending on what companies you use and what type of services they offer. E.g. http://www.yourplacemarketing.co.uk/ offers the landlord a link to property portals including Rightmove and PropertyFinder in order for landlords to advertise and market their property.
There are tips in which landlords can use tenant find services in order to find their tenants as quickly as possible:
Landlords need tenants in their property as soon as possible so that their property is not left empty.
The tenant and landlord relationship is often fraught with difficulty, especially where property damage, deposits and rents are concerned. Finding a tenant is not difficult, but finding the right tenant is an entirely different matter. Traditional advertising in local newspapers and classified advertisements can produce a horde of enquiries, but this can be expensive and not always successful as well as many landlords being subjected to fraud and timewasters.
Lettings agencies for landlords can be expensive and they are probably best for landlords that are not “hands on” with their tenants. The lettings market is massive in the UK and there is no doubt that agencies are useful as well as profitable but there are many landlords that feel they need to control the type of tenants that reside in their property. It’s only been recently that tenant credit checking has been made available to landlords. If becoming a landlord a business, then it must be treated this way, therefore investment into finding the right tenants and vetting them to making sure they are appropriate for your property is extremely necessary.
There are many places where you can post tenant listings. Most of the free property listing services can be risky and may attract the wrong type of tenant. Others allow you to post for free, but you need to pay tens of pounds in subscription fees to receive any enquiry.
Therefore, there is no doubt that there is a market for tenant find services. They start from £30 up to £100 depending on what companies you use and what type of services they offer. E.g. http://www.yourplacemarketing.co.uk/ offers the landlord a link to property portals including Rightmove and PropertyFinder in order for landlords to advertise and market their property.
There are tips in which landlords can use tenant find services in order to find their tenants as quickly as possible:
- Look at agency and other landlords' advertisements and make your description of your property similar or better. You still need to grab the attention of the tenant once your property pictures have been examined.
- Make your rent competitive in comparison to other landlords marketing in your area. Take into account the location, size and quality of the accommodation.
- Check classified adverts and Identify which editions of a daily newspaper are popular with those searching for let property.
- Use the three best assets of the dwelling in the first sentence of your advert.
Plan ahead. Be available to answer calls once the advert is published. Avoid using an answer-machine as some callers will not leave a message. - Be prepared. When calls are expected, have a pen ready, a notepad, calendar or diary for viewing appointments, and a list of suitable questions. Double-check that you have written down the enquirer's name, address and contact number accurately.
- Be prepared. It is guaranteed the tenant has done his/her homework on the area e.g. council tax, utility bills and they will want to know this information immediately on the viewing.
- Don’t forget: You must sell your property to the tenant once viewings commence. Discuss the great features of your property and make the viewing a pleasurable experience. There is no doubt the tenant is looking for a reasonable landlord who can communicate well as they are looking for somebody to do business with as well as a nice accommodation. If they don’t like you, they will not like your property so sell yourself as well as the property.
To conclude, there is a market for landlords that want to use agencies. There is also a market for landlords that do business badly because they do not want to invest money in finding the right tenants. Our advice is to use a tenant find service, which allows you to pick the people that will look after your bricks and mortar as your own judgement is always the best.
http://www.yourplacemarketing.co.uk - Main Site
http://www.yourplacemarketing.co.uk/landlords.asp - Landlords page
http://www.yourplacemarketing.co.uk/tenants.asp - Tenants page
http://www.yourplacemarketing.co.uk/otherservices.asp - Other landlord services
http://www.yourplacemarketing.co.uk/otherservicesbusiness.asp - Business oppotunities with utilities warehouse
http://www.yourplacemarketing.co.uk/whytenantfind.asp - Good article on tenant find
http://www.yourplacemarketing.co.uk/links.asp - Links Page 1
http://www.yourplacemarketing.co.uk/linkspage2.asp - Links Page 2
http://www.yourplacemarketing.co.uk/freestuff.asp - Free downloads for landlords
http://www.edenjosh.com - London lettings agents
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