02 Aug 2013 11:43 AM:

Thank you to everyone for their thoughts. I think the general consensus was it perhaps was too expensive or not really a service required here in Spain. We are thinking we should start up as a legitimate cleaning services company, my concerns are that the world and his mother seem to be doing this, and it would appear under the tax radar.

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31 Jul 2013 10:12 PM:

We are no longer pursuing this idea now in Spain

We are looking at other options now

Steve and Sue

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28 Jul 2013 11:21 AM:

Hello again. Thought I needed to write again. I apologise to baabaabing - I thought your suggestion of a tyre replacement business was meant as a joke - when I first read it I read it as a business here in Spain and not the UK. Thanks but its not for us I am afraid.

Thank you also to those who sent private messages.

The whole point on posting on this forum was to get ideas, feedback and thoughts

We are going to relook at our business plan, someone suggested targetting restaurants etc - this was something we had planned to do later, but now think if we go forward with the business then we would bring that to the fore

We like the suggestions to target letting agents for ovens in holiday lets - not sure how we can incentivise an agent - to be honest we would need 45 - 50 euros ourselves to make the job worthwhile, not sure how agents work - could we suggest our price and they can put a mark up on top?? - ie we charge 45 euros but agent tells owner the cost is 60 euros?

We really like the idea of the half clean oven to show what our service can do

In my research I have found a few businesses based in the costa del sol area but absolutely nothing near me despite the few businesses being mentioned - I guess they might be trading under the radar

A few have suggested incorporating the service within a fully fledged cleaning service - again this is something we are going to look at

Finally someone suggested a proper market research in a market place for example - again a good idea but we are stuck on what questions we could ask - if anyone has thoughts on this then they would be very welcome

Steve & Sue

 

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27 Jul 2013 1:16 PM:

Well we have read through all your comments again and would like to thank you for your time and input

Whilst its only been a few days on this thread we have come to the conclusion that perhaps opening a business in Spain may not be wise move,  the mainly negative thoughts towards this type of business has swayed us to take a back step. It was interesting to note that those who were negative never offered any business types that they thought would or could be a success - again that would have been useful, unless of course they dont think any business venture is worth the time and effort

Its a shame, we both can speak Spanish, although admittidly not fluent and we love the country, the people and the climate

We were prepared to do everything legally and above board and to put our heart and souls into this new venture. However its not meant to be

Steve & Suzy

 

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26 Jul 2013 7:53 PM:

Hi bobaol. I have searched the Internet and all I come up with is oven brite listed in a directory but no details. Thank you for the info though - none of the others are listed


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