Networking with others is very important. Getting good contacts will increase your companies chances of obtaining some great, pre-qualified referrals. I have not heard of one company online that has ever made it on its own without any outside help. Sharing business ideas with others increases your chances of success. Yahoo Inc, a household name,…
If your business is in an industry that’s not ‘sexy’, you might think that it is impossible to get backlinks to your website. Of course, it is much easier to get backlinks if there are a lot of blogs about your topic. With the right ideas, however, you can get backlinks to your website even…
Many people often asked, “Why am I not getting sales, nobody is signing up, I am not making any money, what is going wrong?” Something is actually wrong. You see, when you’ve developed a product, registered a domain name, host your site, and solved issues like a payment processor, you have to wait for the…
Brick-and-mortar stores often change displays, move goods around, and put impulse items beside checkouts. The reason behind these changes is they’re analyzing customer traffic and studying behavioral patterns to understand how consumers shop. As an online retailer, you need to study your customer traffic as well in order to increase sales. Listen: Your Customers Are…
If you own a website then you are certainly concerned with getting it noticed and increasing your traffic. However, you might not have a large budget for advertising or marketing and simply don’t know what to do to get your website noticed without spending a lot of money. Well, the following 5 tips will help…
There are times when a blogger, like any other writer, will ‘lose the muse.’ Every idea that comes to mind seems either trite or dull or, worse still, no ideas come to mind. What’s a blogger to do? Here are five tactics that just might clear away the cobwebs and allow you to find an…
The shoppers are on your site, they are interested in the product, but the design of your shopping cart is causing you to lose many if not most of your customers. Sound familiar? It should. Recent research indicates that the average e-commerce site is losing near 60 percent of its shoppers during shopping cart phase…
There is no denying the fact that the dynamic world of blogging is one of the most powerful Internet activities which can quickly deliver an audience around just about any subject, product or service. The first critical step towards blogging success is in learning the critical components necessary for delivering unique content, the lifeblood of…
You can use traditional methods to sell products such as direct mail, catalogs, and advertising. However, if you have a great online presence, the entire world is your marketplace at a fraction of the cost of most traditional methods. To easily sell to this worldwide marketplace, you need a great shopping cart system. Choosing a…
The long-held wisdom is that domain names should be short and memorable. Of course, it is great when you can get a short name that really works for your business but sometimes that is tough. So why not go for a longer one? The idea that domain names must be short is not as valid…
When planning your first small business website, there are three essential questions you should ask yourself: Who is your target audience? How will your target audience find you? How will you convert your visitors into sales? These questions sound obvious, but it’s amazing how many people don’t bother…and then moan that “our website doesn’t bring…
Building your business can be a difficult task. You can put hundreds of hours of effort into the business, but if you still don’t have important components, you will not be successful. Today business owners are realizing that blogging boosts business. Blogs were typically only seen as personal places to express yourself and your views.…
