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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Getting started in ecommerce - part one
- In 2004, Enquiro.com conducted a study of the search behaviors of men vs. women. They found that women spend more time in their searches and at specific sites. The study also revealed that women tend to be more deliberate in reading search results, linger longer at sites and have a greater satisfaction in the overall shopping experience. Another study conducted by iProspect.com revealed that women...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Getting started in ecommerce ? part two
- In Part One we talked a little bit about what Ecommerce is, getting a domain name and setting up a merchant account. Ecommerce is more than that, much more. To have a really good online presence that gets people to stop and shop you need a strategy for success. Your strategy must include your USP or Unique Selling Position in the marketplace. What makes you stand out from all the other online entr...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Home sweet home page
- "Your home page is the world's introduction to you and your company. Make it COUNT!" ? Heidi RichardsThink of your home page as the cover of your brochure. It features exciting information about your company, but like a brochure it must be opened to reveal the rest of the message. It is connected to other pages in a way that allows other visitors to your site to move from one page...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Website marketing: 10 resourceful things you can do with a product that doesnt sell
- Do you have any product that has not been moving well?Would you like to learn what to do with it?Here are website marketing secrets to help you:1. Sell the reprint/reproduction rights to the product. You could make money selling other people the rights to reproduce and sell the product. People are always looking for new products to sell.2. Giveaway the product for free ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - What are the barriers of implementing e-commerce solutions
- What is electronic commerce?"Electronic commerce is about doing business electronically. It is based on the electronic processing and transmission of data, including text, sound and video. It encompasses many diverse activities including electronic trading of goods and services, online delivery of digital content, electronic fund transfers, electronic share trading, electronic bills of...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to eliminate credit card refunds from digital thieves
- Can you encounter the number of times where a Credit Card Sale was generated, only to receive a "Refund Notification" from your contracted e-commerce processor on behalf the "customer"?Welcome to the electronic world of "cyber-shoplifting".Unscrupulous surfers, disguised as potential "customers", systematically opt to ordering goods (using credit cards) in electronic form of delivery...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The lowdown on ecommerce: making all the pieces fit together
- The Lowdown on EcommerceEcommerce is truly the most confusing aspect of purchasing web design services. This is unfortunate since most (if not all) businesses online would like to provide their customers and potential customers with easy access their products or services. In order to help make sure you get what you need to to set up an ecommerce web site, let's look at the necessary element...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Leading ecommerce consultant admits you should only listen to one real expert! (and its not him!)
- Let me share with you a secret that most marketing experts and consultants don't want you to know? (many of them don't even understand this secret themselves.)The secret is? There is only one true expert who can show you how to drastically improve the effectiveness of your website and your marketing. With dozens of so-called guru's, consultants and experts ready and willing to give you (or ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Content ever be profitable?
- THE CURRENT WORRIES1. Content SuppliersThe Ethos of Free ContentContent Suppliers is the underprivileged sector of the Internet. They all lose money (even sites which offer basic, standardized goods - books, CDs), with the exception of sites profering sex or tourism. No user seems to be grateful for the effort and resources invested in creating and distributing content. The re...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Guide to safe online shopping
- Online shopping can be a little frightening to people who are new to the internet,but as long as you follow a few easy rules you should have no problem shopping online.What are the rules ?First before buying from an online store find out what that online stores return policy is. If you wait till after the purchase of a product you make find out returning it is almost impossible....
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Gooooooooooogle it!
- ....there's much more to Google than you thought:With the wealth of information currently available on the Internet, for many web-users, Google has long been the search-engine of choice. But Google is so much more than just a search-engine. For example, did you know that Google runs a shopping site called Froogle? Or that for a small fee, you can have Google experts answer even the most obs...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Google catalogs - old gashioned mail order meets high tech search
- In addition to Google's Froogle shopping service (still in beta), which features a searchable database of online merchants, Google is also beta-testing their Google Catalog service. Google Catalogs provides a searchable central repository of hundreds of mail-order catalogs.The service includes the full scanned contents of the catalogs, not just a photo and subscription information. And thes...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Shopping from your cell phone with froogle wireless
- Many surfers already know about Froogle, Google's shopping portal that is still in beta testing. Google has now expanded their Froogle service so that it is available on WML-enabled cellular phones. Most newer cell phones that can connect to the Internet have this capability.Users just need to enter wml.froogle.com in their cell phone browser, enter their product search terms, and scroll th...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Paypal primer
- To conduct business on the Internet, whether informal, one-time only transactions between two friends, or a full-fledged business selling products or services, payment arrangements have to be made. Before 1998, this often meant either checks sent through snail-mail, or very expensive, and often hard-to-obtain, merchant accounts for online credit card processing. In 1998, PayPal was introduced to f...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Choosing an ecommerce shopping cart
- Choosing an online shopping cart is a big decision. Unlike a traditional brick and mortar business, your website is your only chance to impress potential customers. It needs to project a professional image to capture the trust of your visitors. The shopping cart is a particularly important part of your website because it deals with people's personal information and credit card numbers. People are ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Your affiliate web site is built ? now what?
- When I first got my web site built, I thought I finally had a presence on-line. Wrong! I soon found out that I needed someone to host my site, and I needed a domain name.This, I found, was my moment of utter confusion. And my first thought was ? "What have I gotten myself into!?" I realized I needed the following questions answered before I could even begin my on-line journey. Wha...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to write a landing page
- Is there a difference between writing a landing page and any other web site page? Yes and no. But mainly, yes.You still have to work within the fundamentals of good writing and copywriting. And you still have to recognize the differences between writing for paper and writing for a monitor.However, there are some important differences to consider when it comes to writing a landing pag...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to find the best merchant account for your business
- What a great idea! Start accepting credit cards and watch your profits soar. Nothing could be simpler. Or so you thought until you began researching merchant accounts. It can all get extremely confusing. There is an easy way to find the best deal that suits your business. You'll be able to compare apples to apples and have a clear picture of what the merchant account will cost you.Let's tak...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How merchant accounts can save you money
- We all know that accepting credit cards is the key to online sales. Unfortunately, most merchants are unaware that acquiring a merchant account can actually save them money. And in many cases, big money!For this experiment, we will use a fictional character named Bill. Bill owns and operates a great online resources for marketing tools and resources. Bills website is a membership based webs...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Online payments make it easy for your customers to buy
- In the last column we discussed the process of credit card enabling your brick-and-mortar business. I pointed out that research has shown that accepting credit cards can help increase revenue and speed up cash flow. This week we will look at setting up an online payment system for your business website. If you think hooking up a brick-and-mortar location with a credit card system stymies most bank...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 10 tips to build, manage and profit from an e-commerce website
- Just because you've built your e-commerce website doesn't mean the customers will begin to come. You need to bring in the visitors, showcase your products, convince them to buy, and bring them back yet again to make any significant gains.The customers need to be wooed by the unique customer experience that will bring them back, and have them sing your praise to their friends, spreading your...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Eleven things you must know about a drop shipping directory and its company
- 1. Balance - You want to find a directory rich in many different categories of products rather than the quantity of products available. Many of the directories try to advertise how many products are available in their directory (i.e. 500,000 products). Why is the number of categories important? A directory will not serve you well if it has hundreds of thousands of products, and none of them are in...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Free competition analysis for e-commerce startup
- For anyone who has completed research regarding e-commerce, there are some common catch phrases that we all come across. 'Competition Analysis' is one of those catch phrases. Competition Analysis is part of the business plan. And it is an important part.However, completing some of the tasks that are required for Competition Analysis can be overwhelming and expensive. This is a disadvantage ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Top 5 dot com myths debunked
- Most people who get into business know what's involved. They have completed hours of research before getting into it. That's great! Even so, we may still have some myths that need to be debunked. Now and forever. We all may have some lingering ideas; after all many have these myths are quite tempting. However, it's important for serious business owners to quickly get them out of the way so some re...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Intranet portals ? collaboration through team rooms
- Knowledge Management for beginnersKnowledge Management (KM) can be defined simply as the process through which organizations generate value from their intellectual and knowledge-based assets. Knowledge assets are often grouped into two categories:(1) Explicit Knowledge Generally, everything and anything that can be documented, archived and codified. Examples include patent...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Intranet portals ? search and taxonomies
- Knowledge Management for beginnersKnowledge Management (KM) can be defined simply as the process through which organizations generate value from their intellectual and knowledge-based assets. Knowledge assets are often grouped into two categories:(1) Explicit Knowledge Generally, everything and anything that can be documented, archived and codified. Examples include patent...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Selling globally through a b2b exchange
- Participation in B2B Exchanges is increasingly becoming one of the fastest growing marketing methods for businesses looking for augmenting their client base beyond their local markets. Any good B2B Exchange offers direct contact with thousands of prospective buyers in a single location. For some new participants of a B2B Exchange, it appears to be a goldmine as they discover unexpected quantity of...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - E-gold
- E-gold is a digital currency, used extensively on the Internet for making payments in exchange for goods and services.It is one of the first digital e-currency providers, having started in 1996. E-gold accounts are backed by actual physical gold, dollar for dollar. You can take delivery of the physical gold if you wish, although there is an additional handling charge.The E-gold e-cur...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Dont get ripped off getting a merchant account
- Far too many people get ripped off when setting up a merchant account for their online business. The biggest reason is that they don't understand their options and are intimidated by the whole process. Now, armed with the proper knowledge, you don't need to become a victim of this process.You may be like me when I first decided my online business had grown big enough to justify a merchant a...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Accept credit cards online without a merchant account
- There are two major ways to accept credit cards on your website. The first and most expensive is to have your own merchant account. Not only is this option expensive, it also requires extensive credit checks, lots of paperwork, and usually takes days or weeks before you get approved. Fortunately, there is an alternative.Third party payment processors who will accept credit card payments on ...