New article posted on PracticalEcommerce.com: An often overlooked and under analyzed segment of building your eCommerce business is the backend processing of your orders. Entrepreneurs invest lots of money and time into making sure their site design is just right, but often gloss right over their order processing systems. Invest a fractional of your time spent in making design tweaks into choosing the right payment gateway, merchant processor, and bank account, and you will save yourself a lot of money! Payment Gateways, Merchant Processors, and Bank Accounts
Google’s New +1 Button and the Demise of Google
New article posted on PracticalEcommerce.com: Yesterday, Google announced the launch of their +1 button, which will allow Google Profile owners to “+1”, or share/save their recommendations including, but not limited to; websites, products, places, recipes, etc… Many see this as an effort to help further Google’s share of social media functionality and interaction, and, obviously, to compete with Facebook’s Like button. What does the +1 button do? It’s quite simple: just like the Facebook Like button, you will have the ability to +1 different Google items, from search engine results, to comparison shopping. This in turn will shape your future Google experience… Google’s New +1 Button and the Demise of Google
Don´t Make Me Your Competition
Carl Van Loon (Robert De Niro) competition speech from the movie Limitless. Great dialogue! Bradley Copper (Eddie Morra): Well in order for a career to evolve, I am going to have to move on… Carl Van Loon (Rober De Niro): That you would even think that would only show me how unprepared you are to be on your own. I mean you do know you are freak…your deductive powers are a gift from god, or chance, or a stray shot of sperm, or whatever or whoever the hell wrote your life script-a gift, not earned. You do not know what I know because you did not earn those powers. Your careless with those powers; you flaunt them and you throw them around like a brat with his trust fund; you haven’t had to climb up all the greasy little rungs; you haven’t been board blind at the fund raisers; you haven’t done the time in that first marria
New article posted on PracticalEcommerce.com: So you’ve launched your new website, and are finished working out all the post-launch kinks (at least most of them!). Next steps; bring visitors to your site to sell your products/services, which is easier said than done. Where To Start With eCommerce Marketing
New article posted on PracticalEcommerce.com: You can never do enough testing when launching a new website. Then again, you do need to launch the website, so you can't test forever! Follow this simple checklist before you launch your new eCommerce website, and save yourself from silly mistakes! eCommerce Site Launching Checklist