Archive for December, 2009

How to avoid making your site look “too busy”

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

One of the biggest challenges of having a Website, let alone an online store, is deciding what content to put on it and what gets the top priority. This excludes all of the useless content that many businesses put on their Websites. We are talking about good, useful content that provides actual value to visitors. [...]

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Does your site help shoppers make informed purchases?

Sunday, December 27th, 2009

If your site does not allow shopper to make informed decisions on your site, then they are most likely to go to your competitors. But what does it mean to help them make informed decisions or purchases? One of the best ways to help your shoppers make informed purchases is to help them compare products [...]

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Are your shoppers forgetting to add items to their carts?

Friday, December 25th, 2009

When your shoppers are browsing your online store, it will be natural for them to jump from product to product without adding items to the cart, and will most of the time leave your store at the end, forgetting what products they viewed and which ones caught their attention.
As a sales tool, why not provide [...]

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Should you get rid of bad customer reviews?

Thursday, December 24th, 2009

If you are an e-tailer selling many products, then it is almost inevitable that you will get at least one bad customer review about at least one product. The reality is that you will most likely get many of them! The typical business owner’s first reaction is to to get rid of them and leave [...]

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How to maximize sales during a recession.

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

There is much discussion about how the current recession will impact e-commerce. Whether you believe the current conditions of our economy are good or bad for e-commerce, it makes little sense to make too much of it and not worry on more important things such as how to  maximize your sales on the Web. In [...]

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How to avoid wasting money on e-marketing

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

Businesses taking advantage of Internet marketing should make certain permanent corrections in their strategy to prevent loss resources and to reap maximum return on investment.
First of all, you need to assess your target profile and decide whether you are targeting the right profile so that you can prevent wasting money on bringing in the wrong [...]

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Free Shipping: Will it increase sales or costs?

Sunday, December 20th, 2009

Well, it depends! You have to take a look at different factors such as the type of products , the average weight and size of the ideal shipment, the average purchase, the cost rate of shipping, the usual shipping destinations, and so on. You may see big e-commerce monsters such as Amazon and Future Shop [...]

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