The internet has been paying my bills for over a decade, and in that time i’ve seen email marketing tools come and go. From open source to paid, there have been massive developments in the space over the past few years, and now the choices are greater than ever. Recently, however, I took the step [...]
Whether you’re looking to sell ebooks, music, or software, there are two ways to make money from selling digital products online - the easy way, and the hard way. The hard way entails spending thousands on set up costs for your ecommerce website with long set up times and legwork. The easy way simply involves [...]
Setting up a business is one of the most exciting things you’ll ever do, especially when it’s your first time. However the one thing that usually puts a dampener on all the fun of going it alone is the boring process of preparing and filing accounts. I’ve previously blogged about fantastic web based accounting software [...]
Running a business should be fun. Most of the time it is fun. Meeting new people, learning new things every day, seeing first hand the fruits of your labour - all benefits of running your own business. However, there is one big downside. Boring, tear inducing accounting. Every time I go to start up my [...]
I’ve mentioned a few times over the past while my increasing high regard for Drupal. It has come such a long way over the past couple of years, and you may not know it but you’ve probably stumbled across several Drupal powered sites in your travels. Here are just a few of the higher profile [...]
When planning a website, everyone has their own way of figuring out which content should go where. Loads of people use spreadsheets, others use downloadable and installable purpose built tools and - ashamedly - I’ve been using a good old piece of paper and pen for about ten years. After a while though, it can [...]
Unfortunately, more often than not, offline businesses think of having a website as a bit of an ‘extra’ that they don’t really need, but will get round to one day when they’re bothered doing it. The majority of businesses - when they do get their website sorted - put a half arsed effort into it, [...]
Back in the day when I was starting out with my first business, keeping costs down was a bit of a priority, and for that reason we relied heavily on open source and free software to get us going. We used OpenOffice instead of Microsoft Office, used Modernbill for our billing (it was rubbish, and [...]
A few months ago my flatmate arrived home with one of these, the iRobot Roomba 560. It’s basically a hoover for lazy people, and you can either turn it on by pressing a button whenever you want your gaff cleaned, or you can set a timer on it. Using the timer method the lil fella [...]