In under a weeks time

The great thing about BBC iPlayer is one can watch Telly when in the bath. Last night I half watched a missed episode of Doctor Who - The Big Bang. The wedding scene reminded me, in a weeks time Neil & Mairi will have been married a year, Where has the time gone? Yet look back over that year and what changes have happened to our sites, the way we sell, and to our little group. Some of us have moved homes, moved our businesses, changed the way of doing business and started in dealing in new categories. We must not forget a little new member that joined us during the year.

I look back at my first Blog, and can’t believe it was only a year ago that we were going through the Icelandic volcano disaster, and just before that the Bank fiasco, it seems so much further away.

I look forward and wonder what is store for us. On the business front, the prospect of all the changes to the cyber world fills me with dread, the search engines seem to be favouring the larger stores with it wizards in the IT departments, or drive us all into bankruptcy by forcing the prices further and further down. Even the very best service appears to be less of an attribute in this relentless fight to give stock away.


Imagine a big ball of string spinning in the air with one or two loose ends that represent the internet. You see this spinning ball and think “I would like to try that”, so you grab a strand (start selling). You are happy with your piece string, at first, then you pull the string, (get more involved, as you get to understand the working of the internet). As you hold more and more string, one or two other loose ends come in reach so you grab them. Before long you have a real tangle of string, dropping some of it. As you gather more of the string you realise the ball is increasing in size not getting smaller, and more balls of string are on the horizon. From a simple beginning selling/visibility is getting more complicated.

So what is the solution?

But in the mean time if you are a Doctor Who fan