South West eCommerce

Monthly report time, something I kind of look forward to doing, but am challenged by the time it takes us. How did the month go?  Well we’re less mopey than we were last month.  We are sure from this that we’ve made the right choice of directio...

One of our issues in the internet marketing area is that we are facing seasonal matters.  One of our very positive performers is pretty much a summer product.  There’s use for the product in all weathers and I’ll continue to use mine, but it’...

Facebook - a dilemma for your humble correspondents. Regular readers of the blog will know that we’re building up a bunch of income streams and learning as we go.  You’ll also know that we want to get cleverer all the time so when things come ou...

So our last post was maybe a little bleak, it wasn’t supposed to be, but really, the truth is, we are all going to make mistakes. Today as an antidote to my own yesterday's attitude, I thought I’d consider mistakes we’ve already made, and the s...

Money in the game When I was a young child, my parents were in the Salvation Army.  I’m not any more, and neither are they but there were a lot of great things to be learned from the Salvos.  Among the benefits of it included that I didn’t drin...

We’ve spoken not long ago about a process where we hired some inexpensive labour to get us through some arduous tasks.  We’ll pay these people once and they’ll deliver something that will work for us long into the future, everybody wins. Meanw...

So here we are for another month.  It’s time to get honest, and get painful.  First thing to note is that we’ve worked hard for January’s numbers.  There was a break over Christmas and we knew that would have some impact, but since we got ba...

We’re plugging away at the affiliate marketing game and our results are steady but unremarkable.  One of the things that’s happened is that we (that’s both Graeme and Dave) have had opportunities come across our desk and we review them.  This...

Most business principles translate from physical business into internet business pretty clearly.  The reason is fairly simple.  Business is essentially one person with a need, whether they’ve clearly thought that out, and some money.  Another pe...

This week has been a whirlwind and there are a number of half finished thoughts in our heads.  Business is fun and I really feel like we’re winning, but telling you about it is tricky.  So it’s time to kick in with a simple but really important...