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    Shopping for Marketing Automation

    Although I haven't yet used their automation functionality, Mailchimp is probably worth a look. They are transitioning away from just email marketing and seem to be morphing into a proper Inbound platform. For specifically Automation, you could also look at Autopilot. It is possible to do...
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    What's best way to start business online?

    I'm going to go against the general consensus and suggest you go with a hosted solution like Shopify or Wix. You essentially pay a small monthly fee to rent a shop backend, apply your own theme, upload your inventory and you're off. If you're doing it on your own without access to a web...
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    How can I work for myself Tele sales b2b or b2c sales?

    Sounds like you need to become a sales agent. A lot of smaller companies use them to hit geographical areas they can't realistic target themselves. A client of mine has 3-4 sales agents covering different areas of the UK. They work freelance and represent a number of other clients as well...
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    Adwords not converting.

    It's difficult to make any specific recommendations without seeing the account but given how competitive Adwords is, particularly around the products you sell, £200 per month is not a lot of money. Assuming your average basket value is pretty low (only a guess from looking at your site) you'll...
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    New Ecommerce Website - Best Parcel Company

    In my experience DPD are the best combination of reliability, efficiency and cost. There are cheaper, like Yodel and Hermes but their reputations aren't great. I'm pretty sure your parcels would fit into their size and weight limit as well.
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    Turning my 'job' into a business, please help!

    I freelance full-time in pretty much the same sector as you - digital marketing and ecommerce. Although my goal is different to yours - i'm not necessarily looking to become a big name in the industry, just to make myself a decent salary and work on my own steam - there will be some...
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    Business / Start Up websites

    My mistake.
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    Business / Start Up websites

    If it's a brochure site you can't go far wrong with Wordpress for a starter. Unless you have some web development skills yourself it would be worth getting someone to help you - there are loads of Indian wordpress developer for hire for very little money and they tend to be pretty good. If it's...
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    Clothing Prototype

    Perfect, thank you. I'm not so bothered about where the manufacturing is done at this stage but it would much easier for me to at least have a UK agenct that I could brief on the prototype.
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    Clothing Prototype

    Hi, i'm looking for a Uk-based clothing manufacture that can create a prototype of a new product for me. So far Google has thrown up a few options but none of them seem to do what I want. Any recommendations would be very much appreciated?
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    Small Business Starter Guide to Digital Marketing

    Thought it was worth sharing http://www.hiscox.co.uk/business-blog/features/small-business-starter-guide-digital-marketing-keeping-budget-customers-happy/
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    VAT for B2B ecommerce

    Thanks cs73, that's exactly what I was looking for
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    VAT for B2B ecommerce

    I'm working on a B2B ecommerce project and the tax situation has got me a bit confused. A lot of our orders will be from outside the UK so will not be eligible for VAT. For UK orders we will get some from VAT registered businesses and some from non VAT registered businesses. My understanding...
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    Cheap and Effective SEO?

    Google makes its money from the paid properties but it's the organic listings that bring the traffic to Google in the first place. To this day around 70% of Google's traffic click on an organic listing so they won't disappear and they won't become paid, unless Google changes its business model...
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    Cheap and Effective SEO?

    Problem is SEO is a lot more labour intensive, inconsistent and difficult than it used to be when you could do low cost SEO and get results. 'Cost-effective SEO' or 'Low cost SEO' don't really exist any more unless you're willing to risk a penalty. If you want to do it that way, there are...
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