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I HAVE NOT SET UP A BUSINESS YET BUT I HAVE HAD AN IDEA AND CONTACTED MY PERSPECTIVE CLIENTS AND THE REACTION HAS BEEN EXCELLENT 9 PEOPLE OUT OF 15 I HAVE SPOKE TO ARE INTERESTED IN MY SERVICE IDEA BUT NOW THEY HAVE ASKED MY TO PUT SOMETHING ON PAPER AND IM STUCK AS I DONT ACTUALLY KNOW WHAT THIS MEENS ANY HELP IS MUCH APPRECIATED...
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.You would certainly need contracts with each of your clients which will be binding documents - otherwise how do they know what you have agreed to for them, and how much they are going to have to pay you on a regular basis? They are signed when everything has been agreed between the two of you. Sounds like you might benefit from some professional advice on business start-ups (as well as the advice you will get from the knoweldgeable people on AB) - have a look at www.businesslink.gov.uk. I don't know the detail but I believe there can be start-up grants for new businesses.
If you tell your clients that for a 12-month period, you will visit their property twice a month and carry out (or arrange to have carried out) works to maintain their property you can tell them that it would be for a sum of (say) £6000per annum, payable in 12no. monthly installments of £ 500. (This will ensure that you always have something coming in each month). Parts and materials to be supplied at trade+ 5% (or similar).
Write up the contract, check for spelling and grammar ad leave any spaces for the figures blank. When you have verbally agreed terms with your client either add the figures/terms and then print it out, or write them in.
Get 2 copies done. You sign them, the person with authority to make the decision for your clients signs them (very important point; it stops them wriggling in dispute), date them and then you keep one (in a very safe place) giving one to your client.
Write up the contract, check for spelling and grammar ad leave any spaces for the figures blank. When you have verbally agreed terms with your client either add the figures/terms and then print it out, or write them in.
Get 2 copies done. You sign them, the person with authority to make the decision for your clients signs them (very important point; it stops them wriggling in dispute), date them and then you keep one (in a very safe place) giving one to your client.