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E-Commerce Supports Haitian Relief Efforts

February 22, 2010 by Susan Petracco

Affiliate.com is running a great contest with these awesome t-shirts they gave away at Affiliate Summit recently. I wasn’t lucky enough to attend (being busy with the Email Summit in Miami in January and about to head off to the Miva Merchant conference tomorrow), but Tom Wozniak at Affiliate.com was nice enough to send me one in the mail (along with anyone else who emailed and asked). And the person with the most creative blog posts wins the contest – the prize being $1000 in case, and a $1000 cash donation in that person’s name to the American Red Cross Haiti Relief Fund. It’s a win-win…at worst I get a great t-shirt, and at best I get cash and Haiti gets $1000 no matter what!

Writers Block? 30 Topic Ideas for Your Online Store’s Blog

December 21, 2009 by Susan Petracco

Personal blogging is pretty easy; business blogging is tougher. Making it interesting, tying your posts into your product line, and achieving the right voice are a challenge for even the most professional writer. These worries often lead to massive writers block. Here are 30 ideas for topics you may have never considered including on your […]

Amazon Retailing Part 3: Understanding Customer Experience Metrics

November 6, 2009 by Susan Petracco

Part 3 of our Selling on Amazon series discusses Customer Experience Metrics and how they affect your ability to make money on Amazon. This article is the third in a series, following previous topics about Winning the Buy Box and Listing Your Products on Amazon. Understanding Amazon’s concept of Customer Experience Metrics will help you […]

Amazon Retailing Part 2: Listing Your Products

September 2, 2009 by Susan Petracco

Welcome to Part 2 of our Selling on Amazon series. Previously we talked about how to compete with other Amazon retailers by winning the buy box for your products. Today, let’s back up a little and discuss how to get your products onto Amazon in the first place. Amazon offers three basic ways to submit […]

Selling on Amazon Part 1: Winning the Buy Box

August 19, 2009 by Susan Petracco

So you’ve decided to hock your wares on Amazon.com? Amazon can be a great sales channel for retailers of many types of products, because they have BIG visibility, loyal customers with a perception of security behind the site, and a well-defined technical platform to support third-party retailers. However, there are several things that you need […]

Top 10 Email Marketing Mistakes

December 2, 2008 by Susan Petracco

Most online businesses set up email lists of some sort, then proceed to just send out emails. This document will show you, from the perspective of the person RECEIVING the emails, what mistakes many people make. Avoid these mistakes to ramp up your email list to profitability.

6 Tips for Starting a Blog for Your E-commerce Site

February 28, 2008 by Susan Petracco

To get sales, your website has to get visitors. And one of the best ways to get visitors to your website is to rank well within the search engines. That is an entirely different subject, but one of the easiest things to consider is implementing a weblog for your business.

How to Write Great Product Descriptions

January 16, 2008 by Susan Petracco

For an updated and more in-depth look at product descriptions, go to Adding More Content to Product Descriptions. There’s no doubt that, on the web, a thousand words is worth quite a bit more than a picture! At least, that maxim holds true when one thinks of search engine optimization. While shoppers love images, search […]

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