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Interview With Edge of Home: How to use Shopify to Get Your Business Online
Following on from my recent article about Shopify I spoke to independent business owner Emily Rees (founder of Edge of Home, an innovative and contemporary homeware label based in Hastings) about her experiences using the platform. She gave me an insider’s look at how she took her business online, the problems she faced along the way and how she…
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How to get your band online, expand your fan base and sell records in 7 simple steps
If you want to connect your music with an audience, build a fan base and make more money from sales without dealing with record labels or compromising your craft, read on. Today I’m going to look at how you can take your creative hobby or passion and get it online in 7 simple steps. This…
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Are you a digital Dick Whittington?
I was chatting to a bloke in the pub on Friday about dreams… Don’t worry, I’m not talking about flying off canyons, frolicking through Narnia or all your teeth falling out. I’m talking about life goals. This bloke in the pub, Sam we’ll call him, works in sales doing a job that pays pretty well.…
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Case Study: How to make a great income selling on Fiverr
Fiverr offers a fantastic homegrown business opportunity for anyone who wants to earn some extra money online… It’s a place where sellers can offer micro services online to buyers from across the world. You can offer things like proofreading, writing, drawing, logo design, voiceovers, singing… dancing, you name it. Payments are made through PayPal so transactions are…
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7 secrets of success from billionaire entrepreneurs
Revealed: 7 secrets of success, according to some of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs There was a documentary on Channel 4 recently called ‘How to Be a Billionaire’. If you missed it you can see it here. Buried within the narrative were some interesting and surprising insights from some of the richest and most successful entrepreneurs…
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How did Vashi build this £5 million a year online business from scratch?
At the age of 28, Vashi Dominguez from the tiny Spanish island of Tenerife set up an online diamond business from scratch. Just 5 years on and business is thriving. He employs 16 staff at his HQ in central London, has a yearly turnover of over £5 million and is about to launch in Ireland…
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Why your next takeaway might make you want to quit your job
If you happened to be wandering around Clerkenwell, London at 4am you might have seen them… Two very tired looking figures on Boris Bikes cycle past carrying giant chickens in their front baskets. No they weren’t on a stag do, a hen do or doing a budget re-enactment of the moon flight in ET. These…
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How these ripped tights made Sara Blakely a billionaire
She used to work as a saleswomen cold calling people, trying to sell fax machines… now she’s a billionaire thanks to a simple invention she discovered simply by hacking into an old pair of tights! How did she do it and what can we learn from her incredible story? Sara Blakely was 29 when she…
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How to tap into this “online marketplace of wisdom”
The Paralympics showed the Superhumans to the world, now meet the Amazings… I wanted to share this with you for two reasons… 1) This is a very ‘current’ example of entrepreneurial wizardry. The team behind this have identified a relatively untapped resource and have found a way of bringing it to the market. They’ve done…
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How ‘little’ people can become big entrepreneurs
There’s one business mantra that almost never fails: Identify a problem and solve it. Make it easier, faster, even more enjoyable – just improve it in some way. You don’t have to reinvent the wheel to strike gold. In fact improving something which is already popular – even if it’s just by a few percent…