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    Who do you use to handle your online payments?

    Forgot to say.... FSB gets you no setup fee and discounts from Streamline. CardSave is around £15 per month. You can use the Streamline account with CardSave as well as SagePay. CardSave & SagePay are the "gateways" Streamline is the merchant account (formerly NatWest Streamline, now part of...
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    Who do you use to handle your online payments?

    SagePay and Streamline merchant a/c. Join the FSB (Federation of Small Businesses) and you get discounted rates and no setup fee. CardSave is also a good option, but for us the limitation is they can only process GBP, whereas SagePay can handle multi currency. Euan
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    Unsure of which platform to choose

    I'd recommend Magento Community so you can customise it as required and then choose a good UK host. Budget for a VPS or dedicated server to ensure performance is snappy for 12k visitors per month. Magento likes a lot of RAM and needs a decent amount of resources. Avoid cheap shared hosting...
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    Packaging

    I also use DavPack for our in-house fulfillment. Very good service. You might want to look at Amazon's FBA service. Even for off-Amazon sales ("multi channel") it can work out cheaper as they have rock bottom courier and Royal Mail rates, packaging is supplied and of course you don't need to...
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    Are adwords consultants heading for extinction?

    It's true and I agree with you there. They do offer some automated options (and will surely add more) and things like Adwords Express, but many business owners won't entirely trust Google to run things on auto-pilot for them even if the whole thing could be automated - afterall Google's main...
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    Are adwords consultants heading for extinction?

    As mentioned already, a good PPC manager is like a good accountant - he/she should lower your CPC and increase your conversion rate. If they don't, fire them and get a new one! Success with PPC (ie converting traffic into sales) is also influenced by good on-page SEO, so PPC and SEO do...
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    Magento Help - urls work with upper and lower case!

    Have you switched on Canonical URLs? Configuration -> Catalogue -> Search Engine Optimisations -> Use Canonical URLs -> Yes This will resolve most of the duplicate URL issues. I would also recommend Google Webmaster Tools for more up to date data than just searching in Google. The...
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