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Thanks so much, that's literally the same tape I had (clear one).

Hi I'm hoping someone can help me. I had a roll of tape lobbed into my flight case from another supplier from an event. Only discovered it after I returned back - thought it's just tape nobody would want it back. So I kept it and used it - the roll finished long time ago and thrown away. It' a bit like regular selltape but isn't completely seethrough, it has imperfections on it and slightly cloudy. I beleive it's used for taping cables to carpets and stuff - the best thing was that it leaves no mark and peels off easily, like there was never any tape on there in the first place. Does anyone know the name for it? I'm lookign for it because I'm looking to tape some cables temporarily on furniture at home.

Update I didn't go ahead with that. I used my SEO skills on a business that can grow on SEO alone. I've got an ecommerce store that sells products I am passionate about. It's evergreen - timeless - non-seasonal. I can just focus all my efforts on SEO and my stay at home mom other half just packs and posts the orders for me. I also have the IT rental business for conferenrces which makes me a decent wage for myself only. Just thought I'd update. I was wrong to get into this business. Conference IT rental does not diversify with PA rental. They are both prone to the exact same shocks. And I now have two very different and diversified businesses. The other reason was - with lockdown I realised being at home, being around kids is priceless. I don't want yet another business where I'm prepping and loading equipment and driving around the capital delivering and picking up stuff.

I also have a background in SEO and wouldn't play this particular game in this market even prior to the current virus fallout. It's very easy to sit down with some search analytics tools and imagine all the money you can make by deciding you can outrank everyone in a Google search - plenty of us did a ton of that in the mid-2000s with moderate success. Back then, we could move mountains with a few directory listings, a scattering of paid links, some basic page optimisation and some link bait content. It's now 2020. I personally no longer look for business opportunities in search tools and also no longer put much into search as a core business strategy even though I still get potential client interest through search. Ranking in search and making money hiring PA are two different things and it's telling that when I do such a search (obviously your own search is not replicable), I don't get any results from suppliers I'd actually use. So, we are then seeking out the bottom of the market: someone who's only solution to such a problem is to write a broad search term into Google and clink on a link. Dunno about anyone else, but no one in the industry that I know wants or needs that kinda business. I've done very well with ranking for specific keywords on my corporate IT rental, people search for a certain product for hire, land on the website and then find that we offer more of what the customer is looking for. Once they use us once, I'm on their books for the long term and they come back to me over and over again. Some of these keywords, to get to top of page 1 via PPC you're paying £7-£8 a click. If your businesses had to rely on that to do business, you wouldn't scoff at SEO. Yes SEO has changed for since mid-2000s, focus is more on content and authority links. Just because your SEO says it can't be done does not mean it's not possible to aim for top 3 on page 1. Yes rankings vary between devices, countries, and just from day to day. But they don't vary that much, unless the user has past history of searching for that keyword and they've already clicked a few links which has personalised their search. For the most part on first search the user will see an unpersonalised search and the SERP will be broadly the same. Most SEOs will give you all this tripe about his search is completely personalised now and it's not possible to promise rankings, and they can just increase the traffic in general but writing content. IMHO that's just ######, they either don't know how to rank sites now, or they're just being lazy and want to spend a couple hours a week on the site and charge £500 p/m retainer on search.

I assume overheads are fixed costs that are attributed to the business, which excludes COGS. Depreceation is largely academic for a small owner operator business like mine. Fillup as stuart91 stated is a COGS, when there's no jobs, there's no fuel cost. My costs are: Self storage space £110 p/m self storage insurance £23 p/mtelephone line rental £7.20 p/m business insurance £110 pa (approx normally £10 p/a) I do spend £200 a month on marketing, these are SEO outsource work, linkbuilders which I will be scaling back. Because I work from home a lot of business overheads are negligable. E.g. have a very reliable and cheap fibre internet which I would have had if I had the business or not.

** laughs out loud **, not at all I actually hate client work for SEO as I hate reporting, reporting takes up half the work with SEO, and feels like a gross waste of time I used to do affiliate marketing in the past (through SEO'd traffic) but I didn't like the uncertainty and there was a pretty drastic google update which killed off £4000+ p/month of passive income overnight. I thought IT rentals would be a bit more reliable, you get direct client bookings after the initial google acquisition. Well coronavirus put an end to that, at least temporarily. I could only do SEO for myself

Ahh yes. bloody covid 19. I am fortunate that I do not have any staff and my busness overheads are <£200 per month. All my equipment is bought, van is bought, no commercial rent, working out of a an outbuilding in my garden. Equipment in self storage. But I suspect the coronavirus will bring me £0 for the next 2 months at least, perhaps people will start to book after 2 months. But I suspect people will be a bit shy about going out into public events for a while after that. I will be able to get by on savings for the next few months. So I'm OK. Some of the bigger competitors with bigger overheads, equipment on lease may struggle. You're quite right about the corporate rentals, I should find other associated equipment to cater for their needs. Corproate rentals are so much easier to administer, they're all ltd companies with steller credit (you can credit check them very cheaply), deposits aren't even required because they pay up easily. OTOH with personal rentals you have to ID them, personal credit checks are expensive and not available for smaller businesses, people move around all the time in London so the address on their driving license/paperwork might not even be accurate. Business rentals = people are just naturally more careful and look after the equipment. The employees that take equipment aren't going to neglect and abuse the items because at the end of the day, they have to explain to accounts and the line manager why the screen they took out ended up with a crack through it. One of the reasons which drew me to it is that I have an SEO background, there's a website that is dominating google search in London The are #1 for these keywords:london speaker hire, pa hire, speaker hire, pa hire london, pa system hire, speaker rental, pa system rental, sound system rental, sound hire london The total monthly searches for all these keywords is 3250. The SEO is mainly directory listings, I could take the #1 spot from them spending less than £1000 in SEO, probably only need to spend £500 to scrape the top spot. So it would be quite easy to take a big bite out of their business. I know personal rentals has it's headaches, but that's just a cost of running a business. I thought. You guys have put a dampener to that idea.

I deliberately don't carry CDJs, turntables, or DJ mixers for this reason. It seems like every month there is a new model that becomes the only acceptable option on riders. I've no idea how people generate the return on investment when kit becomes unfashionable so quickly. Yes, and they want the latest stuff, but they don't even need the features of the latest model and a 5-6 year old model will do the job they want it for.

Wow, I didn't realise it was that bad. I'm fortunate in that my equipment isnt exclusively for big live events, theyre for smaller events too. In fact the equipment I supply is aso used for internal board meetings, video conference etc. So the stuff is used with or without coronavirus. Whitehat SEO - I've been in SEO for a long time. The term could be meaningless noawadays. Where everyone who claims to be doing whitehat tends to do anything but

Thanks for the feedback guys. Appreciate it. I didn't consider the pitfalls of this industry. With the corporate hires I can count on one hand the number of times items were damaged over the 5 years Ive been doing the IT rental business. The reason why I want to get my hand at something else is because it's very important to diversify in business. I managed to keep my IT rental business profitable because I have deliberately stunted its growth, clients always want newer units and more units than you have. It's temptting to go after the sale and invest in more/newer equipment but you're just buying capital assets foor the business and struggle to pay yourself a wage. I also just snipe at a subsection of IT equipment (which I wont name), which are highly profitable, easy to carry (not bulky). Case in point, the biggest player in the market rents everything IT related, including photocopiers, commercial printers etc. These things cost a fortune in storage, and transportation, need 2 man delivery, forklift loading etc. I've just sniped and picked out items that I can send via DPD, and yeilds 25% of cost price for just 1 week rental. The downside is I do have to update items to keep my offering up to date, I try to buy a year late when prices come down significantly - a lot of the times I buy very good quality refurbished which is a fraction of what it would have cost brand new when it first came out. PA hire looks appealing because you can have speakers that are 10 years old, nobody hiring them is going to know or tell that they're that old. I'm based in London, so I know the opportunity here is huge, people have money to spend, there's a very high concentration of people so you'll always find rentors. I guess the advice Im getting is stay away from dry hire to personal rentors, always supply equipment with staff, and if possible go after the commercial market rather than individuals.

Hi I have an IT rental business which is in the corporate world. I have been doign it for 5 years and have built it to the point that I can rely on it for a good solid income. There a juggernauts in this industry, with several million pounds worth of capital assets on their balance sheets, 6-7 directors and 40+ employees. I don't want the stress of building a massive business like that, I think when operations become bigger they are more prone to troubles due to economic downturns, competitors. Also I don't want to be responsbile for ensuring 40 people have a job and they can pay their mortgages round the 12 calender months. I want to grow sideways into the DJ equipment/party hire business. I like that its not corporate and can deal with customers in an informal basis, which makes it easier to use casual hires. I'd like some advice on the feasability of running a profitable DJ equipment hire business for parties, sort of entry level mixing decks, speakers, entry level light bars etc.

Had my first cancellation today, they are regular customers so I let them off from their contract. I do IT rentals for corporate events. They're not events that organisers have charged tickets for and have paid suppliers and taken customers several months in advance. These are free to attend events (usually) and organised 4-6 weeks in advance. So because of coronavirus they had to cancel their event. They are in the travel industry as well (a flight price comparison company). My rankings are going up in google due to a lot of white hat SEO. March is ususally one of the peak months for me. This should have been a nice earner for me. I am am one man band operation. I have an office at the bottom of my garden so my overheads are very little and have enough business to pay the mortgage, bills, and put some money aside. So I am one of the lucky ones. I am guessing some of the bigger companies will struggle, those with big expensive payroll bills to settle each month. They'll either struggle or force their clients to adhere to their rental agreements that may have been signed before the outbreak. What are your experiences.