| Hi,
I didn't perhaps get to make this clear enough in the meeting.
But you said at least once, that the web-shop, is only a couple of months old.
After I'd explained that it was a couple of years old.
I'm not sure if this got through now, in the meeting.
This web-shop is not a couple of months old, but a couple of _years_ old.
Just to make that clear, since I remember that now, that you said 'a couple of months'.
I didn't think this was important, in the meeting, but now I think that I should perhaps make a point of mentioning this, so that you don't think this is an Ingeus-project, because it's an Erik Ribsskog-project, which I started in 2010, (an the initial business-idea, to sell Glacier Mints to Norway, since they stopped selling them there, I got a couple of years before that again. I first tried to sell them on QXL, in Norway, but they wouldn't let me, due to some rules which I thought breached the EEA-agreement, and have complained about to EFTA earlier).
So that it's clear that the copyrights for this web-shop is mine.
I've done all my job-search as usual, besides running the web-shop.
But I think it's strange that I haven't been put on a programme, with the Jobcentre, for self-employed people.
I think it's strange that the Jobcentre haven't offered me this when I have mentioned about my webshop to them.
So I just wanted to make it clear that I have all the rights for this web-shop-chain/franchise and not anyone else.
Hope this is alright!
Yours sincerely, Erik Ribsskog
———- Forwarded message ———- From: Erik Ribsskog <eribsskog@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 2:02 PM
Subject: Update/Fwd: Ingeus are satanic?/Fwd: New update/Fwd: Update/Fwd: self employment
To: ralph.webster@elect.org.uk
Cc: Paul Nesbit <PNesbit@ingeus.co.uk>, CONTACT-US <CONTACT-US@dwp.gsi.gov.uk>, Contact-Us <Contact-Us@jobcentreplus.gsi.gov.uk>, gudmundur.einarsson@efta.int
Hi,
I'm working a bit on my web-shop today, as well.
I was told by Ingeus, that you were an business-advisor.
But it says on your e-mail that you are a business-coach.
But I've run this shop, for almost two years now, so I'm used with taking desitions about it quick and independently.
So I'm not sure if I should involve you in all aspects of the running of the shop.
Since I'm used with changing things with it quite fast, and also perhaps to make a point of that this is my web-shop, which I had before I got on the Work Programme, and not Ingus'.
Just something I had on my mind.
Sorry if I send to many e-mails.
Yours sincerely,
Erik Ribsskog
———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Erik Ribsskog <eribsskog@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 2:47 PM
Subject: Ingeus are satanic?/Fwd: New update/Fwd: Update/Fwd: self employment
To: ralph.webster@elect.org.uk
Cc: Paul Nesbit <PNesbit@ingeus.co.uk>
Hi,
I've also picked up now, on the tracking-cookie-programme, on my blog, that someone in Newcastle search on that Ingeus are satanic.
Is this why you don't want to help me get on that Job Centre-programme for self-employed people?
I feel a bit trapped here, first the Job Centre calls my business a hobby, instead of putting me on a programme for Self Employed people, and then I can't get out of the Work Programme, because like you say, the fact I'm on Ingeus means that I'm not eligable for the Jobcentre-programme. But then you are ignorant I think.
You ignore what seems quite clear to me, that the jobcentre has made a mistake, by calling my e-business a 'hobby'.
They should have called a spade for a spade, (like we say in Norway), and called it a business.
This is like I'm trapped in a catch22 now, I think.
The jobs Ingeus offered me in Sunderland, did also have very strange job descriptions, (a job I got the job description for, by Mary Stevenson there, and it looked very like the web-shop I ran, but they wanted me to sell hair-gel, make a web-shop for it, and also provide custommer-service on the phone. It was like a 'funny slave-job', I think).
What is this Work Programme really.
Is this something New Age?
I also get a lot of stick by Ingeus, (by Paul Nesbit there), since I don't speak Finnish, even if very few Norwegians speak Finnish.
This is a bit like 'the Witches' by Roald Dahl I think.
Sorry if I'm being frank.
Yours sincerely,
Erik Ribsskog
———- Forwarded message ———- From: Erik Ribsskog <eribsskog@gmail.com>Date: Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 1:55 PM
Subject: Re: New update/Fwd: Update/Fwd: self employment
To: Ralph Webster <ralph.webster@elect.org.uk>
Hi,
ok, I'll complete the worksheets and bring it to the next meeting then.
Thanks again for the help!
Best regards,
Erik Ribsskog
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Ralph Webster <ralph.webster@elect.org.uk> wrote:
Erik please make a start on the plan by completing the enclosed worksheets.
ralph
From: Erik Ribsskog [mailto:eribsskog@gmail.com]
Sent: 13 April 2012 12:47
To: Ralph Webster
Subject: New update/Fwd: Update/Fwd: self employment
Hi,
I remember now, I've also been in contact with RBS, regarding a business-acount, for my e-business.
RBS wants a business-plan.
I think if I get a business-account then I'll also get some credit, which I could let me have more options when it comes to running the business.
Perhaps you could help me with making a business-plan, since I didn't learn about this on my economics-upper secondary line, etc., in Norway.
Just something I thought about now.
Thanks in advance for any help!
Yours sincerely,
Erik Ribsskog
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From: Erik Ribsskog <eribsskog@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 10:45 AM
Subject: Re: Update/Fwd: self employment
To: Ralph Webster <ralph.webster@elect.org.uk>
Hi,
I don't see the point in arguing about this.
I've contacted the Council for more information about income support.
So I guess I'll take it from there.
See you on the meeting on 24/4 then.
Erik Ribsskog
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Ralph Webster <ralph.webster@elect.org.uk> wrote:
Erik,
I repeat my previous statement, the mere fact that you are with Ingeus means that you are not eligible for the NEA scheme.
ralph
From: Erik Ribsskog [mailto:eribsskog@gmail.com]
Sent: 12 April 2012 11:36
To: Ralph Webster
Cc: CONTACT-US; Contact-Us
Subject: Update/Fwd: self employment
Hi again,
maybe it's worth investigating if I could be on the programme you mentioned, with the Job Centre.
Since Ingeus/Elect don't have any founding.
I think it could be that the Job Centre were just ignorant, when they called my business a 'hobby'.
Since Ingeus seems to take it seriously.
Perhaps you could check out if I could go on the New Enterprice Allowance Scheme then, with the Jobcentre.
Because I'm not sure if what the Jobcentre did was right.
Calling my e-business just a 'hobby' doesn't seem like something thought throgh, I think.
I can't focus full-time on my e-business now, you see, since I also have to do my job-search.
So if I was on that programme, I could focus more on the e-business.
It's a bit odd that I have to be self-employed one day, and a normal job-seeker the next, when I go to the Job Centre, (like it is now, more or less), I think.
Best regards,
Erik Ribsskog
I also send a copy e-mail to EFTA, since I'm from Norway.
And to the Jobcentre/DWP.
———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Erik Ribsskog <eribsskog@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:04 AM
Subject: Re: self employment
To: Ralph Webster <ralph.webster@elect.org.uk>
Hi,
well, I don't know, maybe it was a mistake by the Jobcentre, to call my business, a 'hobby'.
That seems a bit strange to me now.
Maybe I should really be on income support, when I have a business like this?
What's the agenda for the next meeting again, I was wondering, if it's ok to ask.
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Ralph Webster <ralph.webster@elect.org.uk> wrote:
Hello Erik,
Sorry about forgetting to send the attachment so here it is now although from what you’ve told me about your web site, it may not be very helpful to you.
Unfortunately, i do not know of any funding available to you at this present time and I can’t see anything happening in the short term either. With regards to a self-employed programme with the Job Centre, I think you must be alluding to the New Enterprise Allowance Scheme but the mere fact that you are with Ingeus tells me that you are not eligible for that scheme.
See you on the 24th
Ralph
From: Erik Ribsskog [mailto:eribsskog@gmail.com]
Sent: 10 April 2012 16:33
To: Ralph Webster
Subject: Re: self employment
Hi,
I couldn't see any attachments, but the website is quite high ranked with Google, I think, so that's ok I guess.
I was at a programme with Sencia, some time back, and they started talking about founds for marketing, but the web-shop wasn't that good then, so I didn't want to market it already, at the beginning of last year.
So I think that was why I asked Ingeus about self-employed-programme, to check if there was similar founding-opertunities, for marketing, as Sencia mentioned.
Also I was wondering if I should be on a programme for self-employed people, with the Job-centre.
Since I've been working with this web-shop since the automn of 2010, I think it was, that is before I started to go to Ingeus, on the Work Programme.
So that might have been the reason for me being sent to Elect, because I asked Ingeus about the things mentioned above.
But I'll be there for the meeting, the week after next.
When it comes to the expenses, then the reason it isn't a profit for the web-shops, is that some of the costs are fixed, some are to do with samples for pictures, which I'd say is marketing, and some costs are like start-up-costs, since I've had to move between Liverpool and Sunderland, a couple of times, in the last months, due to Landlord-complaint-cases, etc.
But before the next meeting, I thought I could set up book-keeping, for each delivery, so to show the profit-margin better.
Just something I thought about after the meeting today.
Hope this is alright!
Best regards,
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Ralph Webster <ralph.webster@elect.org.uk> wrote:
Hi Erik,
I’m sending you information on search engine optimisation which you may find helpful in making your web site work better for you.
Our next meeting is at 11am on the 24th at Ingeus, see you then.
Ralph
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