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E-commerce? Don’t forget the shipping

August 17, 2010

One of the most common problems that trips up aspiring e-commerce store owners is the issue of shipping. When I’m helping a client plan their e-commerce project, one of the first questions I like to ask is: “How do you plan on getting your products into the hands of your customers?”
About half the time, I [...]

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Testing helps improve site conversions

March 23, 2010

Testing your website pages, especially landing pages and sales pages, is one of the simplest things you can do to tweak your web site and attain higher conversions. In addition, you can learn more about content creation, as well as your customers’ interests, through testing than by any other method.

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Recommended Reading: 10 Things You Can Do to Make Your Online Business Money

January 22, 2010

If you have an online business, this article can help you kick-start the year with straightforward and affordable suggestions for getting your business, message and products out there in front of potential customers. I highly recommend it.
10 Things You Can Do to Make Your Online Business Money
by Susan L. Reid

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Turning website visitors into customers

January 11, 2010

After putting in place a well-developed marketing plan and generating traffic to your landing page or website, the next step is to turn your online prospects into customers. Improving your online conversion rate is a two-part process.

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Big problem, small solution

November 18, 2009

The folks at Country Meats had a problem.
The Ocala-based producer of smoked-meat snack sticks had recently added to their marketing reach by starting to take orders from their fund-raising customers through an online order form. Unfortunately, they were facing an issue commonly encountered by many businesses on their initial entry into the world of e-commerce: [...]

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Be Prepared for Customers

November 12, 2009

When you launch a new E-commerce web site above all else there is one thing you need to be ready to face: Customers.
That might sound like a “Duh-uh” comment, but not every E-commerce operator is as prepared as they should be when their new store goes online and the first order (or ten or fifty [...]

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New Online Resource to Learn More About Social Media

October 13, 2009

I just learned about a great new website that recently launched but already has a wealth of collected expert knowledge – http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/.  Social Media Examiner is a free online magazine with articles and videos to help businesses take advantage of social media tools to generate sales and leads.
Enjoy! And feel free to comment below and [...]

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Promote your web site with a little elbow grease

April 3, 2009

Regardless of what your business does, what services you provide or what you want to sell through E-commerce, all business web sites have at least one common need: They all need to attract visitors in order to succeed.
Obviously, volumes upon volumes of information have been produced on various tips, tricks and tactics for building both [...]

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2009 Will Be the Year of Big Internet Business

January 31, 2009

Yep, that is my predicition.
In 2009, while our economy continues to slug along, those that do a good job of marketing themselves online stand to have a very good year. We’ve all probably heard stories of how a lot of people became rich during the Great Depression – because it is true. Those [...]

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In E-commerce, hosting is mission-critical

January 20, 2009

How important to the long-term success of your E-commerce site is your choice of hosting service? Pause for a moment and consider: Without reliable and secure web hosting, you don’t have an E-commerce site in the first place.
I touched briefly on the topic of web hosting in my previous post. Today I’ll take a bit [...]

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Your Website is not Yours – It’s your Customer’s

January 20, 2009

Too many business owners get caught in the trap of making a website something that they like as opposed to researching what type of site will best convert visitors into buying customers.  I commonly hear “I want” this or “I want” that without having answers to how a customer might percieve those things.  I’m not [...]

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