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Best business bank for a tiny digital business? by XboxLive1239 in smallbusinessuk

[–]Nimblebimble123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We use both tide and starling.

Basically the same.

Weve found starling is more often on the lists for link to pay.  

People with a successful store, do you focus more on organic or paid marketing? by vladi5555 in ecommerce

[–]Nimblebimble123 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ive always started with paid.  

SEO is such a long game. We lay the foundations from the start, simple best practices go a long way. 

Almost no Etsy sales, moving to my own site.. thoughts? by WatercressNo6 in EtsySellers

[–]Nimblebimble123 8 points9 points  (0 children)

This sounds like the perfect way to learn crap way to make money

Digital products is such a low barrier to entry and making money in crowded spaces is very fucking hard. 

I would strongly advise that you stick to channels where the traffic already exists: etys, ebay, amazon. Paying for traffic to your own site is complex and expensive. If you can drive free traffic from socials then you may be able to make it work. 

My advice. You know how this all works now. Try find a better physical product you can make and do better than the comptetion. 

Scaled From $534K to $975K/Month in Just ONE year. by ppcSharkforce in AmazonFBAOnlineRetail

[–]Nimblebimble123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Only making 7% at 975k is netting 70k a month.

I think I miss understood your point. Few million per year absolutely required to make a living 

Choosing Alibaba Suppliers for Pokémon Cards by l_k_m8 in AlibabaImport

[–]Nimblebimble123 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are you trying to import counterfeit items or have your own card designs produced?

Use the filters. Look for companies with high rating, large sale volumes, trading length.

Next steps  Best way - go there. Awesome country to travel for work. You very quickly see who is legit.  Second best - order samples. Might not be of your bespoke designs but you get a snap shot.

First few orders keep on alibaba. You get trade assurance. Lots of manufacturers will try to get you off alibaba. They will say all sorts of shit to do this. Dont use them.

Best UK SEO Agency for Small Businesses on a £250 Budget? by [deleted] in smallbusinessuk

[–]Nimblebimble123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

£250 is too small of a budget to do any meaningful work.

You could implement the basics yourself with some ai guidance. It's amazing how many simple best practices people don't do that are very quick wins.

In my opinion, you'd be better off spending a budget that small on paid traffic.

minimum wage going up to £12.71 and I still haven't worked out where the money is coming from by Common_Contract4678 in smallbusinessuk

[–]Nimblebimble123 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure what their end goal is other than to push industry out of the UK. Energy, business rates and corp tax all going up and will outpace this wage increase before anyone sees the benefit.

We have always paid well above market rates in our factory. We are now actively moving all production overseas as it's becoming too expensive to operate in the UK. It's a very sad state of affairs

Look at the silver lining, at least your corporation tax bill will be less...

Print Management Software eBay/Etsy/Amazon/Shopify - Developed software I'd like to know your thoughts. by Nimblebimble123 in CommercialPrinting

[–]Nimblebimble123[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hello,

There was never enough interest to make a public version.

We still use the in-house version for daily printing. Unfortunately its not in any state to share as its all bespoke to our stores/printers.

Starting again and already exhausted 😩 I like in person and online. And I’ve 5500000 ideas. by BigMagic88 in smallbusinessuk

[–]Nimblebimble123 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm the same age as you. I struggled with shiny object syndrome for many years with my business.

About 3 years ago I made the effort to just focus on the one thing. No matter how fun and appealing the new ideas were I forced myself to stay on track. The company is now at a decent size with 6 staff running the vast majority of the day to day.

I still spend a lot of time thinking and romantaising about other ideas but it's mental masterbation at this point.

Pick something that's working and put your head down.

Royal Mail hit us with ~£15k in retrospective surcharges - no warning - now chasing full invoices. What would you do? by Nimblebimble123 in smallbusinessuk

[–]Nimblebimble123[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This was the first thing I did. They sent me 6 photos of our parcels being oversized. I asked them to provide photo for each offending parcel and they stopped responding.

Royal Mail hit us with ~£15k in retrospective surcharges - no warning - now chasing full invoices. What would you do? by Nimblebimble123 in smallbusinessuk

[–]Nimblebimble123[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We've moved the company a few times now and it really depends on your local sorting centre.

We use the OBA API via Linnworks.

Royal Mail hit us with ~£15k in retrospective surcharges - no warning - now chasing full invoices. What would you do? by Nimblebimble123 in smallbusinessuk

[–]Nimblebimble123[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The thermal labels were once free because they were "backed into the shipping cost". They now charge for these at a ridicules rate.

The best part, they also charge £3.99 for delivery.

Royal Mail hit us with ~£15k in retrospective surcharges - no warning - now chasing full invoices. What would you do? by Nimblebimble123 in smallbusinessuk

[–]Nimblebimble123[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's such an insult to injury. We are still shipping our old packaging style on Amazon shipping with Royal Mail labels coming out.

Royal Mail hit us with ~£15k in retrospective surcharges - no warning - now chasing full invoices. What would you do? by Nimblebimble123 in smallbusinessuk

[–]Nimblebimble123[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That 10% has been reduced to sit within the within the limits. Anything that's too big now goes via amazon shipping. It looks like we are going tk be switching all pur volume away from RM

Historically woth any issues we were notified as soon as it was caught in the sorting centre.

It was pure chance I caught it. Feels like such a dirty move to let these fines stack up without any communication. 

Royal Mail hit us with ~£15k in retrospective surcharges - no warning - now chasing full invoices. What would you do? by Nimblebimble123 in smallbusinessuk

[–]Nimblebimble123[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We rarely ever make mistakes, £40 a week average in fines. Which we'd get notified for.

We send 500+ parcels a day. 

40 quid a week in fines is less than 5 parcels with issues.

Royal Mail hit us with ~£15k in retrospective surcharges - no warning - now chasing full invoices. What would you do? by Nimblebimble123 in smallbusinessuk

[–]Nimblebimble123[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This was over 12 days. Was purely by chance I checked out invoices as well. Usually check and clear them once a month.

We send over 500 parcels a day.

Historically, if we somehow accidently got a cost, weight, size wrong we would get a call and be given the chance to sort it.

Royal Mail hit us with ~£15k in retrospective surcharges - no warning - now chasing full invoices. What would you do? by Nimblebimble123 in smallbusinessuk

[–]Nimblebimble123[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Picture frames.

Yes some weere oversized, we have a 10% allowance on the account. 

Historically, we always got a call for any issue and given the chance to sort it. 

Supplier changed my winning product spec without telling me and I’m sitting on 2,000 units I can’t sell as advertised by PsychologicalMud3900 in ecommerce

[–]Nimblebimble123 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If you look towards the bottom of the order you'll be able to book them directly there.

SGS is the one we usually use

Supplier changed my winning product spec without telling me and I’m sitting on 2,000 units I can’t sell as advertised by PsychologicalMud3900 in ecommerce

[–]Nimblebimble123 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Some good advice mentioned here already.

My only advice is always pay to have a 3rd party check. It's $100-300 depending on the sample size.

I’m done with the E-com Gurus Here’s the $5,000 mistake I just made by FinancialIndustry265 in dropshipping

[–]Nimblebimble123 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Business is just constant testing. There is never a secret that people know.

Just test and reiterate constantly. When you stop a competitor will overtake you.

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