On the web, transparency often equals trust. This is a world where credit cards are often used for fraud, where dollars are lost every day, and where identities are stolen. Smart shoppers are wary shoppers, and they don’t want to do business with faceless entities online. They want to know who’s behind the company they […]
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Top 10 Email Marketing Mistakes
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. 1. Putting an unsubscribe link at the bottom […]
6 Tips for Starting a Blog for Your E-commerce Site
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. Originally, back around 1998, weblogs […]
Using Order Management Software
As e-commerce stores grow, the process of filling orders becomes increasingly tedious without software to help. Some shopping carts have some of the features needed to fill orders, such as the ability to print packing slips, track order history as well as packages, and so forth. But bringing an order management package online is often […]
Choosing Product Codes or Item Numbers
If you’re building your first ecommerce site, the idea of choosing a convention for your product codes may seem like a trivial task. After all, the product code is typically something that is primarily internal to your business, so what difference does the format make to your customers? The answer is, probably none. But it […]