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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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