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Another for Option 2. You may be a 1 man band but it shows you are thinking as director of a company with ambitions to grow, rather than as a temp employee. This cannot be bad for IR35.
The fact that 99% of us can't/won't in reality employ anyone else is often due to how the whole game works with parasitic agencies, rather than the fault of contractors.
You might just end up with hassle like I did. Still, it helps to prove I'm in business 'on my own account'. And I've managed to fend them off so far...
Option 2 - I have company information, support forum, customers list.
I've also got a jobs page, and people have applied for jobs with my company. Shame none were particularly good, but if the right person applied for a job, then I'm sure I could get some work for them to do.
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Now we all agree that the web-site should present us as a "small consultancy".
I am still wary about exposing such a web-site/emails to the pimps. They can decide that I am trying to compete them ! Someone mentioned above that this won't be an issue, cos pimps won't pay too much attention.
Maybe an option is to have the consultancy web-site but use an yahoo mail with pimps.
PS: Why do we call them pimps ? Isn't that make us the "bitches" ?
I am still wary about exposing such a web-site/emails to the pimps. They can decide that I am trying to compete them !
I find it hard to believe that any pimp would go to the effort of checking out contractors' websites when that time would be much better spent chasing their next commission cheque...
I am still wary about exposing such a web-site/emails to the pimps. They can decide that I am trying to compete them ! Someone mentioned above that this won't be an issue, cos pimps won't pay too much attention.
Maybe an option is to have the consultancy web-site but use an yahoo mail with pimps.
I always use a yahoo mail account on my CV but mainly 'cos it's my public email that has already been sold on (probably by agencies).
It's none of the agency's business how I promote MyCo. I have multiple income streams and I'd tell them to bugger off if they so much as hinted at it.
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- Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...
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