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The True Cost of Adding Social Buttons
A cost, for adding social buttons to your website? Matt you’ve lost the plot…. or have I? I wrote an article last year because I was horrified that the Facebook Like buttons were actually adding 84Kb, or in time 1.340 seconds to the page load time of this site. In this article I look at the social sharing buttons again, but in more depth and identify the weight behind them. By adding the Facebook, Twitter, … [Full Article >> ]
What is Order Aggregation & How Can it Help Your Business?
Aggregating orders from multiples sales channels is one of the main features in 3rd party software, but what are the benefits of doing this and how can it help your business? I delve deeply into order aggregation in this article and explain how this can help your business tackle multiple sales channels and still leave you with (some) hair. I’ve also included a video accompany this article and I would value any feedback you have … [Full Article >> ]
How eSellerPro’s Channel Profile Can Help Your Business
One of eSellerPro’s core features is a function called a ‘Channel Profile’, in this article I’ll be covering the basics to what a ‘Channel Profile’ does and how it can help your business. Multi-Channel selling is now an assumed practice for eCommerce businesses, unlocking the power to reach a much wider audience than you could ever have imagined, but sensibly. The Channel Profile feature in eSellerPro can enable you to achieve … [Full Article >> ]
5 Questions for Dzine-Hub – A Professional eBay & Web Design Company
Following on from the two part series “Why buy a professionally designed eBay listing template?” for which you can read part 1 here and part 2 here, I thought it would be a brilliant idea to interview a company that specialises in such designs and share with you first hand the experiences and feedback from such a provider. Introduction I’ve got 5 brilliant questions for Abbas from DZine-Hub.com lined up, … [Full Article >> ]
How to: Add a YouTube Video to Listings Using eSellerPro
Adding video content, especially video content that you’ve made for your business on a product or service to eBay listings easily done and I covered this in an earlier article “Add a Youtube Video to your eBay Listings in 5 Steps“, however when using 3rd party tools, the actual listing template is normally separated from the description. In this How-to guide I’ll be showing you how to automatically add a … [Full Article >> ]
5 Tips for Preparing Your Business for January Not Christmas
Its now late November and we’ve seen a good couple of press releases from supporting companies on how to increase and keep your Christmas period sane. However its all too late as preparations for Christmas really should have been in place at or before August. If you’ve not trained seasonal staff, arranged stock transfers, deliveries, put automation software in place, heck everything that gets amplified due to typical higher sales volume, then the … [Full Article >> ]
The Four Standard Physical Product Business Models
The following two video’s are part of the UnderstandingE project I have been working on & I’m sharing them here for any feedback you may have. This hasn’t been clearly defined before (that I know of) and will be an immense help if you are considering an eCommerce product business for eBay, Amazon, transactional websites, the other channels etc… Or as I’ve found, to help realise that you’re actually using … [Full Article >> ]
Managing Large Adword Campaigns with Google Adwords Editor
Ever wondered how search marketing companies & larger companies deal with more than a few Google Adwords campaigns? The answer is easy, they use the right tool for the job, Adwords Editor is one of them and best of all its free! Managing Campaigns x 10,0000 A slight exaggeration, however using the Adwords Editor, you can manage literally hundreds of campaigns over several accounts using a single, free tool. A key feature of … [Full Article >> ]
Part 1: What Are Affiliate Networks & Should I be using Them?
This was an old post that I’ve revamped for human consumption. “What Are Affiliate Networks & Should I be using Them?” is a really good question and a very short answer is yes, you should be. I’m looking forward to explaining and givening examples over the next three articles, as I discuss what they do, how they work, who uses them, how much they cost and ultimately why you should have a network as part of … [Full Article >> ]
We (Almost) Have a Winner! – Missguided.co.uk
Back in October, one of my first articles was relating to a company called Misgguided. You can read the original article here What a Silly Design Flaw – Missguided.co.uk. They had just had a new website redesign, but neglected one crucial thing… They had lots and I mean lots of keywords stuck in images. Before: This is a before screen shot and was the basis for the article: Looking Closely And you’ll see that … [Full Article >> ]
Business Ethics & Ones Moral Compass. Fraud & Alibaba.com
News came out yesterday regarding the CEO and COO’s departure from Alibaba.com amidst +1,000 customers that have been the victim of fraud. You can read two articles on this at TechCrunch and AuctionBytes. Background Alibaba.com has slowly been gaining pace, it was acquired by Yahoo in 2005 for a mere $1B in cash and stocks. Its a marketplace for trade between countries.It’s quite a beast and should not be dismissed for early trading. Moral Compass This … [Full Article >> ]
No, No, No. Its Your Domain Name, Use It. ChannelAdvisor Not Advised?
Oh this made me giggle, while researching after posting the earlier article on a ChannelAdvisor customer called ‘Buy4less’ and ‘Wasting Your Most Important eBay Marketing Asset‘ I stumbled across this chestnut. The Search Results Click this link and let me explain the results you’re seeing. You are seeing two things, the first is the use of the site: command, this is very useful for seeing how many pages have been … [Full Article >> ]
How to Make Your Shopping Cart Suck Less
Oh how I LOL’d at this, I’m only going to include the first part of the article to give you a taster, you can see the full article here: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/shopping_cart The Oatmeal has given me some really great laughs in the past few months, Matthew Inman really does have a wicked sense of humour. While this is wrapped in humour, he raises some very sensible considerations, I urge you to … [Full Article >> ]
