Recent content by Lynne Baker

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    Amazon Sales

    If you think about it logically it shouldn't be too much of a surprise really. For the majority of salaried workers it's all but 6 weeks between paydays in December and January, plus the inevitable credit card bills, plus the ever growing fear about the economy. If even the big boys are...
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    WARNING: Thread about smoking and sponsorship.

    Ooo, did you ever know a chap called Martin Oldman? He's my ex brother in law!
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    Amazon Sales

    We are soooooo quiet it's a tad nerve racking! We have only just this week started selling on Amazon so I'm not expecting any sales at all from that channel, but our online shop and telephones are eerily silent. Thankfully all our bills are paid, and I refuse all credit offered at the moment...
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    Accepting Paypal - Worth the hassle

    Really interesting points of view here! We're just having a new ecommerce website built which will be both retail and trade facing (behind a login). It's not commonplace in our industry for trade customers to be able to pay with PayPal so we have so far told them no thanks, but for the retail...
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    Community Introductions & Networkling [no links please]

    Well hello to you! I'm Lynne Baker, and I own a beauty salon and distribution company specialising in professional beauty products. We're based in Kingsclere, midway between Newbury and Basingstoke. Looking forward to learning lots from these forums!
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    Oh yoohoo!

    Hi there I've just joined today so here's a bit about me! I own a beauty salon and a distribution company importing and selling beauty products from all over the world. I spend about 30% of my time waxing people's bottoms, 30% talking to new trade customers and the rest wondering what the...