South West eCommerce

You may have noticed that we had steered clear of buying into sites until now.  We’ve always thought that it’s a good way to grow the business, but it’s very difficult to do your due diligence in buying a site.  Having taken a big hit early i...

This is an interesting month.  Our aim here is to achieve the place where we are making a living and the actual figures are down a little, but we’re feeling pretty up, why is that? Well some important things happened.  First and probably most imp...

There is a bunch of trial and error in this game.  We use some tools and they improve our hit rate really significantly, but I don’t believe you can get a guarantee of a site/ product/ market combination that’s going to hit it right every time a...

A time ago we were considering getting more serious about affiliate marketing.  We thought there might be a fast way to do it, and we had a go at purchasing a trading, profitable website. If you read our regular monthly analysis, you’ll be able to...

As you know, we’ve been doing this seriously for a few months now.  We have looked at the idea for a lot longer than that, and before we dived in, we’d started to look at some training. Like a bunch of other things, though, we started at it befo...

Monthly analysis, April Here we are again, not as late as usual.  Time to spill for you all in the ongoing soap opera that really is about whether we float to the surface or whether we crash and burn. First point on that I guess is that we wanted to...

Sometimes I look at science and understand in broad terms what’s going on, but don’t understand the detail of it all.  Then there are practical things I do every day and I can’t really be clear about why they work but I know they do and I trus...

I hope you’ve all been waiting for this, we’ve certainly had our work cut out for us and this has sat there, waiting to be written and probably demanding that we do the work, even though we didn’t want to. The month shows us down in actual cash...

Last week was a hard week.  We alluded to it yesterday, and as part of our grinding stubbornness to keep going, we kept pushing out the output, but didn’t get round to the month’s figures and you’re still waiting for them. Our real issue is th...