Advice, Tips and Guides for Running Small Online Businesses

Help, practical advice and tips on setting up, running and growing a virtual or online small business.

Setting Up an Account with a Courier Company

Setting up an account with a courier company can be daunting. Here’s what to look out for before signing with a new distribution partner.

How to use a spreadsheet program to transform a standard product list into a simple, organised price list with variable pricing levels.

My experience using a Plantronics M20 Bluetooth headset connected to a Mac to make calls using a VoIP softphone

Constant apologising getting you down? Here’s a quick way to produce a canned apology that will save you the emotional hassle.

What to put in Box 8 of the UK VAT Return Form

How to calculate how many of your Amazon or Ebay customers are coming back to buy directly from your site. Particularly for Netsuite users.

Online retailers know that sales go wild in the run up to Christmas. What preparations will help you take advantage of the sales spike?

A step-by-step Netsuite tutorial on how to dynamically generate META tags for product pages from product data like description & price.

Although snail mail is still an important part of business, you needn’t be tied down just because of the need to receive and send mail.