Hello. I joined recently but I think it's impolite to lurk, so here's an into. I'm Karen, owner of Green Mountain Diapers Corp, which is a home-based online business selling cloth diapers and supplies. CLOTH diapers? Huh? Don't laugh! It's highly successful. I've been doing this almost 9 years. I'm a retailer but a techie sort-of by necessity. It's been impossible to find anyone to help me, so I'm self-taught on everything, do all my own site stuff and everything. That can be read that I know pretty much nothing except how to cut-and-paste, and if you thought that, you are correct. But cut-and-paste can work quite well. I wish I new more and I continue to learn. Recently I had an issue with my site and tried to hire someone at six places, but no one wants to do it. They are all to busy. So, I will continue to struggle through the tech side on my own I suppose. Is that the nature of the game overall? More need out here than skilled people available? Or is it just that people prefer making new sites rather than supporting existing sites that they have not made, so it's bottom-of-the-bucket work? I'm in the process of installing a new shopping cart script and going perhaps to live credit card processing. I currently import everything from my online order log and then process cards out of Quickbooks (Enterprise). I'm wondering if live processing (authorize.net) will be more work or less work. I'll find out. Because my business has grown so much, I'm doing everything I can to streamline. I don't advertise at all and have cut out many products, but still it keeps on growing as I try to pull back. So increasing efficiency is key. Accounting is a strong area for me, more so than the scripting and such. So maybe I might be able to contribute here in that area. Sincerely, Karen Amidon -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.hidden-tech.net/pipermail/hidden-discuss/attachments/20070504/39627a95/attachment.html