What Should an Online Seller Hand Over First? A Delegation Guide
Not every task should be handed over at once. Score your tasks for repetition, risk and time, delegate the safe ones first and give each helper only t…
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How to Build a Wholesale Ordering Process for a Small Brand
A practical process for small brands taking their first wholesale orders: minimum quantities, price tiers, payment terms, stock allocation and fulfilm…
How to Test Demand Before You Buy a Large Batch of Stock
Test demand in steps, from conversations to a small batch to an honest pre-order, and decide using a break-even number set before you start.
How Small Brands Can Earn More Repeat Orders Without Spamming Customers
Measure your repeat rate, find when customers usually reorder, ask permission properly, and send a few useful messages at the right time.
How to Photograph Products with a Phone for an Online Store
You do not need a studio. A window, a plain background and a repeatable shot list will give you consistent, honest product photos on a phone.
How to Plan Reorders Before Your Bestselling Product Runs Out
Run out of your best product and you lose sales while you wait. Here is the simple arithmetic for when to reorder, with a worked example and a variant…
A Simple Order-Fulfilment SOP Your Small Team Can Follow
A plain-English fulfilment procedure for small teams, from new order to delivered, with checks, owners, exception rules and a daily close.
Spreadsheet or Order Software? When an Online Seller Should Switch
A spreadsheet is a perfectly good order system until it is not. Here are the warning signs, a scoring checklist and a step-by-step migration plan for…
How to Calculate the Real Profit on Each Online Order
A step-by-step way to calculate what one online order really leaves in your pocket, with a worked naira example, a worksheet and the costs most seller…