I’d like to heartily recommend Make Serious Money on eBay Uk by Dan Wilson. This new updated edition not only has a comprehensive guide to selling on eBay as a business but also covers other vital areas such as amazon marketplace, Google and setting up your own website. The perfect stocking filler? If you found this post [...]

Shopping comparison engines are an increasingly important way for retailers to reach their customers and drive website traffic.  I recently caught up with Maricki from Become UK to talk about their offering and plans for the future. Tell us a bit about your company BecomeUK is a comparison shopping engine operated by Become, Inc. Become, Inc. is [...]

– Tell us a bit about your company Stamps.com is a software-based program that allows you to print USPS-approved postage right from your computer.   You can print postage directly on to an envelope, shipping labels or even plain paper.    Stamps.com was the first PC Postage vendor licensed by the US Postal Service back in [...]

I’ve been doing some research into the social media uptake of major online retailers and usage is patchy to say the least.  Here is a list of the top online retailers in the UK taken from Hitwise.  If I have missed out any features, this is because they are hard to find!   Blog Twitter Bookmarking Product Reviews Facebook eBay [...]

Gentle Readers, I would appreciate it if you could vote for my manifesto on Change this entitled The Fallacy of the Great Idea. Please follow this link: www.changethis.com/proposals/1754 Thanks Trevor If you found this post useful, why not buy me a coffee!

At Hello Baby we have recently launched our own iPhone app, which has been extremely successful and I’d like to share how we did it. The Idea My 2 year old daughter loves my iPhone and so I got the idea to develop an app specially for toddlers.  Toddlers aren’t terribly sophisticated when it comes to software [...]

Times are hard and many businesses are to tightening their belts.  However, for savvy businesses, there are several highly effective marketing techniques which require no initial outlay apart from time and effort.  Use these leaner times to experiment an innovate. Learn Search Engine Optimisation Attracting search traffic from Google is undoubtedly the most cost effective way of [...]

Below is my manifesto proposal for Change this.  Please vote for it at www.changethis.com/proposals/1754 Many entrepreneurs feel that they cannot start a business without a great idea. Without one they believe it will be impossible to be successful as someone else will have cornered the market first. Only by venturing into uncharted territory can they achieve [...]

Here, in no particular order, are some pearls of wisdom for your consideration: Beware of Marketing and Advertising Salesmen Everyday (at least until I turned my phone onto answer phone) I get around 10 sales people trying to sell advertising and marketing services of a dubious quality.  Be careful before investing in any kind of marketing service [...]

Reading Free by Chris Anderson recently, I discovered that one of the first home computers was designed solely to organise receipes in the kitchen, as that was about the only task for which the engineers at Honeywell thought a computer might be useful.  To enter receipes required a working knowledge of Hex.  It is not [...]