Trading with Colleagues - East Sussex
A fellow trader and I have been considering the merits - or otherwise - of sharing an office from which to conduct our trading. We can see certain advantages, i.e. the sharing of ideas, information and technique; the sense that you are at a your place of work; reducing the sense of isolation etc.etc.
We are looking at an office tomorrow in Lewis, East Sussex, which can, from an early indication, accommodate four traders. The office has broadband facilities although we need to carry out some further detailed assessments on this issue in order to ensure that four traders will be able to trade effectively with the telecommunications infrastructure available and to what extent we have to upgrade.
Disadvantages? It costs more than to trade from home, although we are targeting serviced accommodation with inclusive costs e.g. rates, heating lighting etc.
The purpose of this post is twofold.
1. We should be very interested to hear whether there are similar groups of traders trading together away from their home premises, and to learn of their experiences both good and bad.
2. If there are any traders in the Brighton, Eastbourne, Lewis (generally East Sussex) area who may be interested in joining us perhaps you could PM me and one of us will get back to you. Cost? We will give you a rough idea in our reply.
Finally, expenses are shared equally and each trader trades for himself/herself.
A fellow trader and I have been considering the merits - or otherwise - of sharing an office from which to conduct our trading. We can see certain advantages, i.e. the sharing of ideas, information and technique; the sense that you are at a your place of work; reducing the sense of isolation etc.etc.
We are looking at an office tomorrow in Lewis, East Sussex, which can, from an early indication, accommodate four traders. The office has broadband facilities although we need to carry out some further detailed assessments on this issue in order to ensure that four traders will be able to trade effectively with the telecommunications infrastructure available and to what extent we have to upgrade.
Disadvantages? It costs more than to trade from home, although we are targeting serviced accommodation with inclusive costs e.g. rates, heating lighting etc.
The purpose of this post is twofold.
1. We should be very interested to hear whether there are similar groups of traders trading together away from their home premises, and to learn of their experiences both good and bad.
2. If there are any traders in the Brighton, Eastbourne, Lewis (generally East Sussex) area who may be interested in joining us perhaps you could PM me and one of us will get back to you. Cost? We will give you a rough idea in our reply.
Finally, expenses are shared equally and each trader trades for himself/herself.
