Ecommerce articles
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Shopping carts for the faint of heart
- The chief criteria for judging an ecommerce shopping cart are the number of credit card processors and shipping services it supports, and the number of people that support *it*.Why? Because credit card processors and shipping services mutate all the time. Your cart will require updating. Which service works today may go out of business tomorrow, and leave you with the orders piling up....
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Online merchant account - costs and alternatives
- Merchant Account BasicsA Merchant Account is a commercial bank account established by a merchant to receive payment via credit cards. Three parts are required to accept credit cards. Besides a merchant account, you need a local bank checking account to deposit funds and a processing solution, such a terminal or web-based store front to take credit card payments. Online merchant account, or ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - A tale of two revolutions - ecommerce: a historical perspective
- The World As It Then WasThe dynamic economic growth of the late 19th century placed greater and greater demand on horses to deliver manufactured goods between train and local destinations. Horses pulled stagecoaches, buggies, omnibuses, cabs and even shipping barges in canals. Hitching posts, mounting blocks, and water troughs were everywhere throughout cities in Europe and America. Beautif...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Short story: the benefits of shopping online
- Maria's new lifestyle: Short story about the benefits shopping on the Net has given to a dedicated artist.I've got this strange friend; her name is Maria. Maria's always been a little weird but now things have gotten unworldly altogether. You see, Maria's an artist; she's into sculpture in particular, of which she specializes in the manipulation of Perspex with a blowtorch. Lately I haven't...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to get free internet merchant accounts
- This article will show small businesses how to get free internet merchant accounts. If your business is to grow and succeed, it is essential to accept online credit cards.Benefits of accepting online credit cards.1. It has been proven that sales increase dramatically when you accept online credit cards.2. Up to 75% of online purchases are made on impulse and customers spend up...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Evaluating vendors of ecommerce fulfillment services
- Once your website has secured an order, you have to fulfill it. While the fulfillment of digital goods is usually handled online, the delivery of physical goods is handled in a "brick-and-mortar" world.When choosing a fulfillment company ( http://www.4th-media.net/order_fulfillment/decision_making.php ) for your ecommerce operation, you need to evaluate both fulfillment services and ecommer...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Government buying and selling on the internet
- Global Insight, a leading economic and financial forecasting company, (formerly DRI-WEFA), states that all levels of government (federal, state, and local) should see steady increases in the purchases of goods and services through the year 2009.Vendors willing to make the commitment to sell to government can reap the benefits of this projected government spending.By the same token, g...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Selling from your website
- Greetings!Friends and relitives ask us all the time " How do sell from your website?" and no doubt you want to know as well. Over the next two issues we will be covering this very thing! We decided to divide it into two camps - tangibles and non-tangibles. Feel free to create a hybrid if you are daring, however, for the sake of simplicity - both for your visitors as well as your planning fi...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The five most commonly encountered, off-putting e-commerce errors
- While getting less public handwringing than during holiday season, the "abandoned shopping cart problem" continues to wreak havoc on online sales. Recently I judged a raftload of sites for the Webby Awards (my second time) and for the Inc. magazine Web Awards, as well as for my own clients. Here are the five irritants and obstacles that most frequently disrupt the visitor's shopping experience at ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Choosing an internet merchant account
- Surf to Google and perform a search on "Internet Merchant Account". The results are staggering (472,000 results!) If you have created a web based business and need to accept credit card payments, your choices are limitless. Before you partner with a provider, take time to understand the different components of internet credit card processing, and know what to look for in a merchant provider....
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Why this is the perfect time to start charging for website subscriptions
- If you're a writer, researcher, subject matter expert, enthusiastic hobbyist, or an authority on almost any topic, there has never been a better time to start your own subscription website or online newsletter.And if you're already publishing a hobby website, now is the ideal time to convert at least a portion of the content to fee-paid access.Smart website owners are now realizing j...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - E-marketplaces from sellers perspective
- What is an E-marketplace anyway?E-marketplace is a business to business web based venue, where buyers and sellers meet online, generate business leads and conduct business transactions. The e-marketplace features are tailored in a manner so that a large numbers of buyers and suppliers can be serviced as a community. A participant of an E-marketplace can be a buyer, a seller or both. Unlike ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Start doing online business using b2b portals in six steps
- I registered with a B2B site but what's next?This is a question many first time users of B2B marketplaces ask themselves. A few expect that the registration itself will bring them a number of new customers. In some cases this might by true! Especially, if you are a seller of some much coveted items. But for rest of us, things are a little trickier! A large B2B marketplace has a lot of suppl...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Web store - why do you need one?
- Internet has opened a new era of business opportunities. Each day, thousands of new consumers are joining the Internet. More and more companies are adopting Internet as their primary sales and distribution channel. According to Forrester Research -The survey of 130 U.S. companies indicates consumers spent $76 billion shopping on-line in 2002. This represents a 48 percent increase over 2001, and pr...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Six components of a good e-commerce site
- Businesses, which are still sitting on sidelines and not doing business on the Internet, should think seriously about their position! If you are one of them, chances are there, that you have to pay dearly for your indecision as you might lose significant market share to your more proactive competitors in a very short period of time.Apart from the fact that e-commerce is growing at the rate ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The clickbank crash of 2003: lessons learned
- I had a rude awakening recently. I checked the days worth of sales from one of my sites and there were none. This had never happened before and of course I was anxious to find out what was wrong.I quickly found out that the credit card processor Clickbank was under a hacker attack. Their service was effectively paralyzed by computers around the world flooding Clickbanks computers with bogus...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Shopping online: what you should know
- For some people, shopping online is as normal as driving a car. It's become part of the norm. For others, the prospect of making internet purchases is a scary one. Here are a few tips to make your online shopping experience more rewarding.Research the company or business that is selling to you:- Look for a phone number and address; all legitimate businesses will have one.- Und...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Are you making these e-commerce excuses? (part 2)
- Last time, we started to take a look at the most common reasons why most people don't make progress on their e-commerce and Internet marketing goals. Today, we continue the discussion. [See part 1 of this article at http://www.ecommercediva.com/articles/excuses2.html]-------------------------------------------------Excuse #5: " I just don't have time. I'm too busy dealing with [custo...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Are you making these e-commerce excuses? (part 1)
- A year ago, I had big plans to re-vamp my web site. I was going to publish my e-newsletter twice a month ? every month, and I was going to upgrade my own e-commerce capabilities. Those were my Internet marketing "resolutions" for 2004.And I broke them all. *Every single one.* (One of them I broke even before the month of January was over!) For every goal, I had an excuse. And the ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Does your shopping cart have a squeaky wheel?
- Have you ever gone grocery shopping just before a holiday? The aisles are packed with people pushing carts, shelves need restocked, all the checkout lanes have long lines...not a fun experience.Just like in-person shopping, making online shopping easy and painless is key to getting customers to purchase from your store.AdvertisementLet's examine the internet shopping process f...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Turn your rusty junk into ebay gold
- Often times people to stop to realize the income potential of their "junk". And, when they DO decide it might be worth selling, they never give eBay a second thought.As I preach over and over again to my customers, don't ever think that you have something that nobody else would want, unless you've really taken the time to do a little eBay research.I've sold my wife's old tea pots, bo...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Something new in e-commerce: the echo system build
- How four partners build and manage an exclusive art posters web site by emulating the way the echo works. Imagine a top-notch photographer, some demanding visitors and an e-commerce site that wants to make money. But not at any price and in any conditions, within a policy of exclusivity and selectivity. You have got three quarters of our "Echosystem Build":1° The top-notc...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - E-commerce is back on the fast track
- How much holiday shopping did you do on-line this year? If you are reading this, then chances are good that you made at least one purchase on-line. Over 54% of all Americans did it [1]. A much higher percentage (>80%) of Internet users did it.Not only did you do it, you liked it! Less than 7% of on-line shoppers reported a bad experience with 88% reporting they were satisfied or very satisf...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The rise of multinational virtual corporations
- The virtual corporation is the emerging organisational form, which best combines, a fluid ability to adapt to rapidly changing markets and is able to leverage its skills with the complementary skills of other corporations. In the concept's purest form, each company that links up with others to create a virtual corporation will be stripped to its essence. It will contribute only what it regards as ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Top ten qualities to look for in an online pharmacy
- As you may have noted, there are thousands or even hundreds of thousands of websites selling pharmaceutical products or drugs. These are called ONLINE PHARMACIES or PHARMACIES ONLINE.Can they be trusted? Are they safe?Yes, in many cases but only if you are careful and exercise your due diligence: this is all the more necessary since the consequences of cheating with pharmaceutical pr...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The secret science of online shopping
- In theory you could create a retail web site with a limitless selection; an online store where every kind of merchandise known to man could be sold. Would people be interested in buying from such a huge enterprise?Why do people buy online?Location: You can shop online from almost anywhere as long as you have access to a power supply and a telephone connection. You can shop in the com...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Accept credit cards online without a merchant account
- It is often assumed if you want to accept credit cards on your website that you must have a merchant account. This is not the case. You can accept credit cards with a Third Party credit card processor.1) What is a Third Party Credit Card Processor?A Third Party credit card processor is a company that will accept credit card payments on behalf of you or your company. The payments your...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to turn any product you sell in to residual income
- The concept of this is for you to offer a subscription type product as an upsell or backend product. For example, if you're selling an ebook for $37 offer a subscription to a related e-zine for $9.95 a month. Instead of an e-zine, it could be monthly updated information for the ebook.It's not just for e-books, you can make it work for any product or service you sell. Some subscriptions that...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Database: the secret of success
- BENEFITS OF A DATABASEBy maintaining your list as a database, you can segment in many ways for targeting. Targeting improves the productivity of your offers. You can use a database to isolate the segment of your list most likely to respond to a particular offer. With a good database, you're not "mass-mailing" your offer to parts of your list that may have no interest in it (based on their c...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Online business- what makes it a success!
- Only a few manage to sell everything under the sun over the internet. There are billions of web sites running online business, trying to outdo each other by various means.But only a few succeed in building, promoting and sustaining a profitable, professional, successful online business. Only a few web sites are able to deliver what they preach and make sale.How do they do it? Some ma...