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Selling, planning and getting found on a small budget.
6 guides, 2019–2026
This section is for people who run a business with a handful of staff, or none, and no IT department. Two long comparisons deal with getting online: website builders for a brochure site or a portfolio, and ecommerce platforms for selling products directly. For planning work, one guide looks at alternatives to Microsoft Project for teams that find it too heavy or too expensive. A shorter how-to shows ways of creating a PDF from Word and the other Office programs, and a marketing piece for boat rental businesses covers winning customers and bringing them back.
For a firm that sells online, the ecommerce comparison also shows how to price an ordinary month on each platform: the plan, any transaction fee and the card rate together, which often decides more than the headline price.
Connecting a bank account to an app hands over a view of the account, not the keys to it. The useful skills are reading which permission is being granted and knowing where to take it back.
The right store platform depends on how many products you sell, who will maintain the site and how you want to take payment. Fifteen options, sorted by what each one does well.
Renting a boat is a local purchase that most people make a few times a year at most. The marketing that works follows from that.
A website builder bundles hosting, design templates and an editor into one subscription. The right one depends less on feature lists than on what kind of site you need and how much control you want later.
Every version of Office since 2007 can save a PDF without extra software. The menu path depends on the version, and the options dialog is worth a look.
Microsoft Project is powerful, Windows-only on the desktop and priced per user. The right replacement depends on whether you need Gantt scheduling or just a shared task list.