My friend has recently found out he is going to be made redundant and feels now is the time to do what he's always wanted and start up his own company rather than search for another salaried job. He has the drive and enthusiasm but becuase he's all in a tizzy about his future he's not really thinking straight and is finding it hard to come up with ideas.

He came to me asking for ideas becuase im self-employed and thinks I should have loads of ideas but after brainstorming things with him ive kinda come to a dead end too so im turning to you guys from some inspiration.

I told him to do the usual 'list what your good at and what you like' thing but everything I came up with from the lists he didnt really go for so see what you guys can make from this:

Skills my mate has from past jobs:
Good at face to face selling (advertising, IT equipment)
Good and confident on the telephone (sales activities, as above)
Merchandising products for sales
Organising small scale events
Very good with computers (not programming or owt just using programs, researching & t'interweb)
Has done a bit of building work with me in the past (if you can call that a skill ha ha!!!)


Things my mate is interested in:
Adventure sports (particularly snowboarding - he goes every year)
Football
Music
Holidays
Property
cars
kids toys & books (he has a 2 year old so you cant blame the fella!)
Films
Going to gigs
Business


I hope some kind fellow or fellowette wouldnt mind spoending a few minutes of their time to try and peice these together and come up with some business ideas becuase i'm running on empty, plus it will get my mate off my back too!!

Thanks in advance Wink
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