But in the absence of any other information, it serves to further conceal their location. While their "Registered Office" could be an accommodation address intended solely for the receipt and forwarding of mail. Which could be anywhere - should anyone be bothered to look. An impressive office block in the centre of town, or above a newsagents in a village.
Harry Bloomfield supplied the answer.
Formerly I suggested that they were working in a back bedroom and had already compiled their list of engineers. But of course, as Harry pointed out, there's no need for this at all. All they need do is feed the addresses of potential customers into the Gas Safe Register and there you go. Apparently I'm surrounded by them; as is anyone living in a town most likely. And there are plenty of other sites for other trades Mybuilder, Checkatrade etc. etc. All of whom already come highly recommended. Naturally.
So seemingly all you need is a good website, merchant accreditation from CC card providers and a fast broadband connection along with some fake reviews maybe. And located almost anywhere - the UK is your oyster.
However the big problem with this as with almost all such surefire get rich quick schemes is actually attracting customers. Letting them know you exist. Previously you'd have had to advertise which potentially could cost shedloads to be effective now in additions/instead you need to achieve a high ranking on Google and other search engines; while competing with maybe hundreds of others trying to achieve exactly the same objective.
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