E-commerce

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3 Surefire Ways to Sink Your Ecommerce Store

Building an online business can be tricky. This is especially the case if you’ve never had an online business before. Fatal mistakes are too easy to make, and it’s something that you cannot reasonably afford when starting out. But, if you know the mistakes that are commonly made, you can dodge the pitfalls that have…

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How to Firmly Position Your Ecommerce Brand Above the Competition

Ecommerce can be a dogfight. So many different retailers are vying for supremacy in often crowded markets. Customers in 2016 now have more choices than they have ever had. With smartphone devices attached to them like an extra limb, they can pull up hundreds of your competitors in seconds. One of the most powerful things…

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How to Successfully Create and Manage Content for Your Ecommerce Store in 2016

There’s a few reasons why content is absolutely essential when running an online business: it can build authority, instill trust, gain traffic, and persuade site visitors into becoming buyers. It’s one of the most important elements on your site, and it should be an integral part of your marketing strategy. With all of that said,…

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Why Upselling Is One of The Best Ways to Increase Customer Satisfaction

Inexperienced vendors view upselling as a dirty concept. Many think it’s a cheap, sleazy tactic that only exists to get more sales. To be fair, that can be the case. There are hordes of deviously sleazy salesman who are quite talented at sinking their hands into their customers’ pockets, while offering no value in return….

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Should a WooCommerce Shop Run on Shared Hosting or a VPS?

One of the worst setbacks a website deals with is downtime. The longer your site is down, more sales go down the drain. One of your main concerns as an ecommerce retailer is maximizing your revenue, and web server issues directly undermine that. Suffice it to say, the hosting plan that you choose matters immensely….

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Are You Making These Product Description Mistakes?

When you sell anything online, there’s always one general metric (regardless of the situation) that will always mean something: sales. Your online store will either live or die by how many sales you make. There are many elements that will directly influence the amount of sales that you bring in. When someone clicks on a…

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The 4 Most Essential Success Metrics for Your E-Commerce Store

In the e-commerce space, business owners that are successful often know exactly why they are successful. They’re successful, for one major reason, because they know how well they are performing– their data always tells the story. Your success in e-commerce is determined by number and hard facts. And while it’s easy to rely on instincts,…

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How Your E-Commerce Store Can Conquer 2016

For several years, e-commerce has steadily evolved. 2015’s Black Friday saw record numbers of online sales, and it’s indicative of a larger trend: people prefer to shop online. E-commerce offers convenience, speed, and a wealth of options. In 2016, e-commerce will continue to evolve– that’s a guarantee. As e-commerce evolves, your operation needs to evolve…

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How To Hit the Ground Running With Your E-Commerce Store

You’ve probably heard the stories of how a new store quickly rose from obscurity and went on to make millions of dollars in a short period of time. You’ve been probably been thinking of the possibilities for your own store, and you’re dreaming of your own success scenarios. You should stop. I’m not here to…

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How to Use Abandoned Cart Emails to Recapture Lost Sales

One of the most underappreciated marketing tools is the abandoned cart email. Abandoned carts are an issue that every E-commerce retailer encounters. Over 70% of shopping carts are abandoned before a purchase is made. Somewhere along the line, prospects lose interest and change their mind. The purpose of the abandoned cart email is to change…

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The 3 Steps That Will Drastically Improve Your Store’s Post-Purchase Experience

Someone just bought your product. You now have a new buyer, which is great, but the question of what to do next pops up. Here’s one thing to know: E-commerce stores that are successful have a great deal of repeat buyers. There are many reasons why someone would return to your store to buy another…

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The 6 Most Common Reasons E-Commerce Stores Fail

According to many different sources, over 90% of online businesses collapse. That’s a ghastly stat. That means– statistically speaking– your chance of success as an online retailer is less than 10%. An E-commerce business is extremely easy to set up. You don’t have to rent a physical space for your store. When put against other…