She’s giving 4 months because she is moving and presumably wants to work until ready to go. It’s not reneging on a training course if the business is going to get no use out of it or extremely limited use.

BF weekend is still huge, Monday should be second biggest day of the year, and the next 2 weeks the next busiest weeks of the year. Keep the discount scheme running until yo7 feel you’ve got back what you need. Check the Shopify stuff and your conversion rate it would be unusual to have a big outage and it not to be well known about.

Is this a question about photos or more general about starting a business?

To be honest all of you sound like you don’t know reasonable behaviour. Of course other agency shouldn’t call to moan at you, of course you can find fault do you know what they e been asked to do for how much? Of course the client is a free loader who maybe hands out your details to random strangers.

His incentive ism he’s the only employee, OP is screwed without him and he wants to earn a big extra, so is pretty much doing as he pleases.

What do you think buying a Rolex achieves? It’s not a deductible expense for business (unless your in the watch business and then it becomes stock). You’ve provided no details about your business but I guess you are asking what expenses can you get away with? Investments would just create more profit and are an asset so wouldn’t lower the tax bill.