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    Payment methods

    Let's talk unit economics for a sec. Let's say your target profit is 2 grands. Your margin (revenues - unit expenses) on each £40 unit is, charitably, £5. Not having any other costs would mean, you'd have to move ~400 units per month (or ~13 per day, including weekends) to reach your target...
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    Virtual Goods Tax for new Startup Website

    Disclaimer: not an accountant, but been doing my own books for 4 years, with a professional accountant's oversight. To my knowledge, there is no such thing as Virtual Goods Tax. Money coming in, in any shape or form is "revenues". Money paid out -for points, for dragon kills, for buying...
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    Freelance Sites

    You can control quality by either sourcing copywriters from respectable places, or pushing the quality bar higher during prospecting. For the former, I'd recommend textbrokers, they have a sliding scale on quality/price, and the high-ends are usually professional. For the later approach...
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    How do I find out who DID own a domain name...

    This is only possible via serious archives; the only one I know of is domaintools whois history (do a google search for it). You can enrol in their free trial for getting the whois history data, and cancel your membership within the first seven days to get the data. Hope this helps, -Csaba
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    Technology Business Forum? Any demand for one?

    There's a Europe-fork of Silicon Valley's "Hacker News" at http://hackful.com/ ,which is both specifically about high-tech ventures, and also somewhat overwhelmed by developers.
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    social software

    There is a hack with yammer I've seen a couple of months before: Yammer by default only allows people to register with a specific domain's e-mail; however, you can create an e-mail forwarder with a simple user registration, which basically binds [email protected] to forward to the user's...
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    Alternative to BT

    Most mobile net providers are already doing auto-roaming -using eachother's broadcast tower, if it's feasable, or available; hence, it might turn out, that switching providers won't solve your root problem. If this is the case, check out if your area offers Openzone wireless, which is pretty...
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    online Card payment system

    Also -if you could describe what the offer is, we might be able to help with more insights :)
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    online Card payment system

    The flipside of the coin is, it's extremely difficult to make a viable business with £1 unit economics. The biggest impact on conversion rates is going from £free to £1; if you start charging, conversion is virtually guaranteed to be in the <5% percentile. Think very hard about the unit...
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    I saw your product cheaper on ebay .....

    There are a number of things you can do with this problem opportunity, two major strategies: 1, Explain a competitive advantage for items bought on your website, that your e-bay customers don't have. Extended warranty, faster delivery, moneyback guarantee, any of this would do. Alternatively...
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    Running away from google

    Turn that around: Google's quality control is determined by what their users like, and don't like -mostly measured by manual quality checks, and statistical inferences of user behaviour. Should they choose to start doing things otherwise, Bing (who is now serving results for Yahoo as well) would...
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    Stuck with a limited CMS

    So, the thing with bigvendor e-commerce systems -as opposed to "home grown solutions"- is they usually come with non-plastic limitations. That is, if you feel your needs are underserved, you're kinda SOL -not being able to make changes to it's codebase, and all. For this reason, you might want...
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    I saw your product cheaper on ebay .....

    There are a number of things you can do with this opportunity, two major strategies: 1, Explain a competitive advantage for items bought on your website, that your e-bay customers don't have. Extended warranty, faster delivery, moneyback guarantee, any of this would do. Alternatively, explain...
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