Keyword Research and Product Lines

Friday, April 3rd, 2009

As you have probably heard over and over, keyword research is a pivotal step for success. Taken a step further, it can develop your product lines for you.
Keyword Research and Product Lines
Finding success in e-commerce can really be boiled down to one theme. Identify the needs of your prospects and provide a solution for them. [...]

Making Big Money By Going Small on the Nets

Sunday, March 29th, 2009

You will hear over and over that the quickest way to find success on the net is to find an area with little competition. I second this advice.
Making Big Money By Going Small on the Net
Going small can refer to both marketing and business choice. In and of itself, you are trying to find a [...]

Merchant Accounts and Shopping Systems

Friday, March 27th, 2009

Congratulations! You created an impulse in a customer to buy your product, but there's one small catch--without some way to process their credit card information, your sale is gone.
One of the best ways to capture and use customer credit card information is with a merchant account (Visa, MasterCard, American Express) that is tied to your [...]

Os Commerce - An Intro

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

Executive Summary
eCommerce platforms are being commoditized. Enterprise level solutions are coming down in price and new open source solutions are being made available to anyone with an internet connection for free.
The most robust of these open source solutions is OS Commerce (OSC) &ndash a community driven eCommerce solution that is flexible, scalable, and user friendly. [...]

Taking Payments On-Line

Sunday, February 15th, 2009

There are ways of selling goods and services on line without the visitor having to make a telephone call. Many people, these days, are perfectly happy to give their credit card details on line, providing a secure server is utilised to gather sensitive information.
In its basic form a shopping cart could be just a button [...]

The e-Commerce Revolution

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

The Growth of E-Commerce
It's amazing all the changes in the way people do business in the short time since the beginning of the e-commerce revolution. The e-commerce revolution was predicted in the early stages of the internet. Those who predicted the sweeping business changes brought about by the world wide web knew what they [...]

The Internet: Have You Cashed In Yet?

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

The recently ended Christmas/Holiday 2005 sales season is returning some good numbers for retailers, well above figures that some thought would have been unattainable in light of the many hurricanes that wreaked disaster on parts of the U.S. this past year. With consumer sentiment good, early figures suggest that sales climbed at least 4% over [...]

Top 5 Surefire Ways to Reduce Shopping Cart Abandonment

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

You've spent a good deal of time creating an awesome website with very enticing advertising copy that is very successful in getting your customers to click the "Buy Me" button. However, after examining your websites logs you've come to notice a very ugly pattern - your customers are abandoning your website after they decide to [...]