Isn?t the internet a marvellous thing?! This is my first foray into blogging (so forgive me if it?s not quite as you might expect from a blog!) and it?s quite something that I can be sharing this information with potentially millions of people around the world.

After having to leave my last job after the multimillionaire owner of the company stopped paying his staff, I decided that I wanted to start my own business. I wasn?t really sure what I wanted to do, but I knew that I wanted to work for myself. Don?t worry, I will get to the point and this isn?t a post claiming you can make loads of money, but the story is relevant, if you can bear with me.

I used to work in the property industry and so already had an interest in property and thought of a ?brilliant idea? offering a service to property investors (my poor husband has to endure my ?brilliant ideas? at least 3 times a week!). The idea was good, but I needed somebody who could offer cheap web design. Not only that, but they also had to offer cheap ecommerce and it had to be the right price ie very cheap indeed! If any of you have researched this area, you will know that ecommerce is extremely expensive. My husband is a painter and about a year ago, he had set his own amateur website up with a view to selling his artwork. He got the website up and running and it looked OK, but he experienced major problems when trying to add an online shopping cart to the site. In utter frustration, he finally contacted half a dozen quotes for a very simple ecommerce solution and was shocked to get quotes back STARTING from