The accountants and bookkeepers who completed this survey prepare financial statements for 6,000 small businesses across the US, the UK and Australia. We asked them to compare the performance of online businesses vs brick-and-mortar operations. Here’s what they had to say.
You may be able to get your suppliers to put your materials in the box, but that’s rare and will likely cost you a pretty penny.

Google Drive is the most popular cloud-based small business file management and sharing software, and it’s absolutely free. You can create, store, and share all types of files from documents to slide presentations to spreadsheets to images and edit them collectively as a team in real-time. Google Drive even lets you sync your files across all your devices and share them publicly or privately with external stakeholders.
Incomplete or inaccurate descriptions may lead to complaints, increase returns, and hurt your reputation, so be thorough, clear and upfront. However, descriptions don’t have to be dry. Put yourself in customers’ shoes and come up with fun and engaging descriptions of how they can use the products.