Recent Posts Tagged With 'my business'

• Holiday Time

  Posted on Sunday July 5th, 2009 at 08:31 in my business, latest posts

  I got back from my holidays last week, two weeks touring France with a tent. I had planned to do some work on my business and get some articles ready for my blog but, with the sun shining and a few beers outside of our tent I decided to leave the lap...

• Pension Crisis Escalates

  Posted on Sunday June 28th, 2009 at 17:02 in tutorials, my business, latest posts, pension crisis, private pensions

  Statistics are confirming what most of us have been aware of for some time, that, the destruction of the private pension industry by corrupt politicians and bankers is impacting on many people’s pensions to such an extent that many people are being...

• Bit busy At The Moment

  Posted on Sunday May 10th, 2009 at 06:41 in my business

  I’m busy on a number of fronts at the moment. I’m planning a direct marketing campaign to some of my customers at the end of the month. The campaign is an experiment. I’m going to write a personal letter to a sample of 50 of my cust...

• Taking Stock

  Posted on Thursday April 23rd, 2009 at 05:15 in home business, ebay, my business

  He said everyone knows that. I told him my best month last year was in September and that it’s not neccessarily true, his products may sell all the year round, it depends on the products. He shrugged and said he’ll start in winter. He w...

• Ebay a bit slow.

  Posted on Tuesday February 24th, 2009 at 15:20 in ebay, selling on ebay, my business

  EBay has dropped off a bit after week two of February. I’m not sure why but a look at my shop traffic stats is telling me that visitor numbers has dropped off. Is this just a blip? Is it due to the recession? Or is it down to eBay not pulling t...

• Bad weekend on ebay

  Posted on Tuesday February 17th, 2009 at 09:14 in small business, ebay, selling on ebay, working from home, my business

    I’ve had a bit of a disaster on eBay this weekend. It started on Thursday. EBay is instigating another change for sellers. They are updating the look of EBay stores. This is an update that will come into effect in March, whether you like it ...

• January Business Update

  Posted on Sunday February 1st, 2009 at 08:51 in my business

  I can’t believe January has gone already.  It’s just whizzed past in a flurry of activity. I suppose it’s a sign of getting old that time appears to fly past. On the business front, I’m pleased to report that I achieved my mo...

• Information Overload

  Posted on Wednesday January 28th, 2009 at 05:19 in my business

  There is just so much information coming at us today that it’s easy to become overwhelmed and suffer from that new phenomenon information overload.  Before the internet, we got most of our information from books, magazines or by enrolling on c...

• January starts well

  Posted on Thursday January 8th, 2009 at 17:46 in my business

  The New Year has started well for Arts, Crafts & hobbies with daily orders coming in thick and fast. As expected December went quiet over the Christmas holidays but as the New Year crept in things have started to pick up. I’m really excited abo...

• Putting The Brakes On Ebay

  Posted on Saturday January 3rd, 2009 at 11:48 in home business, business, ebay, selling on ebay, ebay business, working from home, my business, middleaged in biz

  I’ve decided to calm EBay down a little. It’s been keeping me so busy for the last few months that I haven’t had time to put into process other ideas I have for the business. I’ve also being unable to get my stock sorted out. It’s being so ...

• Taking Action

  Posted on Sunday December 21st, 2008 at 05:48 in small business, starting a business, take action, taking action, my business

  As I look back over the year at how far I’ve progressed with my business it strikes me that I’ve reached this point now because of a single reason. That reason is taking action. Ignoring most of the advice given by government agencies and banks a...

• Five Things I’ve Learned About Running A business

  Posted on Friday December 19th, 2008 at 18:26 in small business, business, running a business, my business

  Over the past year I’m pleased with the growth my business has achieved. A few week from January 2009 my business is way beyond where it was in January 2008, and I am, I have to say, pleased. I’m not however complacent and I have plans in place t...

• Final Christmas push

  Posted on Thursday December 18th, 2008 at 18:03 in my business

  It’s been busy here at arts crafts and hobbies. To be honest it’s been busy for months but I’ve started to run out of stock for the first time this year. Normally I can reorder stock and have it delivered within 48 hours. With the pressure of ...

• Reasons I Started My Business

  Posted on Sunday November 30th, 2008 at 16:23 in my business, reasons for starting a business

  Goals For My Business I started my business www.artscraftsandhobbies.co.uk an online art supply company as a way to build a good retirement income for my pension. I’ve completely lost all faith in the government to look after me in my retirem...

• Things are hotting up as christmas approaches

  Posted on Wednesday November 26th, 2008 at 17:59 in my business

  Things are hotting up as Christmas approaches. The systems I’ve put in place over the year to help the business run smoothly are being pressure tested and I’m glad to say appears to be holding up. I had my best week last week and as I write this ...

• Newsletters

  Posted on Sunday November 2nd, 2008 at 10:37 in home business, business, newsletters, my business

  As my email subscribers to my monthly newsletter grows I have been searching around for a program that will allow me to write a good newsletter, format it and send it simultaneously to all my subscribers. I have a trial version of one program, which ...