July 14th, 2006 by jhampton
As an e commerce business owner, your site IS your store. If there are usability issues, I can assure you it’s costing you money every day in potential sales.
One of the easiest ways to prevent this is to hire a usability expert. They are easy to find, via Google.
I’d suggest asking for a list of [...]
Relevant Tags: e commerce, ecommerce, online business, ui, usability, web commerce
July 11th, 2006 by jhampton
If you don’t think an online business or website can make you some money, consider the fact that $1.1M has just changed hands. Cheapflights LTD has sold two of their non-flight to Internet Business Group PLC.
E-commerce company Internet Business Group PLC said it has bought ‘a
number of non-flight assets’ from Cheapflights Ltd for 1.1 mln [...]
Relevant Tags: ecommerce, internet sales, internet success, online business, prosper learning
July 9th, 2006 by jhampton
No matter what type of home or web business you want to build, you can rest assured that there are some resources online that can assist you in your plans.
There are more and more individuals and even families who are moving to working from home each day. The numbers are amazing at ecommerce and online [...]
Relevant Tags: ecommerce, ecommerce success, home based business, online business, online success tips
July 6th, 2006 by jhampton
Have you ever lost power at your business? Hopefully you’ll answer no to this one, but I can tell you that our business has undergone power failure several times. Of course, the cost has been significant with losses of sales, data, network cards and harddrives.
However, one way to ensure that this never happens to [...]
Relevant Tags: business helps, e commerce, ecommerce, online business, ups, web business
June 26th, 2006 by jhampton
Your online business must have a great site design. You must consider form and factor, and it must work almost all of the time. Every time your site fails, your business loses customers.
Unfortunately, it is often the case that although the site may look pretty (or not), from a performance standpoint, well, it’s frequently a [...]
Relevant Tags: ecommerce, online business, site design, web development strategies
May 31st, 2006 by jhampton
The VP of Marketing for Nissan explained why Nissan is banking heavily on online advertising. She suggests that other auto industry execs should take heed and follow their e commerce example.
Speaking at the Automotive News Marketing Seminar in Los
Angeles, Ms. Thompson said Nissan has extended its relationships with
Yahoo, MSN and Google, which "we now recognize [...]
Relevant Tags: e commerce, ecommerce, marketing strategy, new media strategy, online ads, online advertising
May 17th, 2006 by jhampton
Because great design is often a hallmark of a great company, the failure of a web design carries shame. There is nothing more embarrassing than browser error.
At one time, you could design your site without really worrying about more than Internet Explorer, however, Firefox holds a 20% share (and growing) of the browser market, and, [...]
Relevant Tags: browsers, css, e commerce, ecommerce, html, web browser, web design
May 16th, 2006 by jhampton
Thinking successfully means planning successfully. Often, when I am in the middle of a mountain of work, I’m just putting out fires, rather than ‘building’ my business. However, because I am a major ‘planner’, even my time spent doing regular, fire-fighting work can become great business building time.
For instance, because I have set up my [...]
Relevant Tags: automated email, ecommerce, ecommerce solutions, lead generation, planning effectively
May 15th, 2006 by jhampton
With any online venture your desire should be to make money. Of course your ecommerce or online business can make money but how’s it doing now?
Keep in mind that your most precious commodity is ‘time’. There is nothing more valuable and nothing that is used up easier than your time.
Keeping in tune with time management [...]
Relevant Tags: ecommerce, online business, online success, time management
May 11th, 2006 by jhampton
Looking at today’s Web 2.0 sites can help you understand just how much the traditional web site has changed.
No-Nos:Frames, once much in vogue, are now considered hideous. Although some sites like About.com can still survive with framed headers, their demise is eminent. Only sites that are afraid of losing their visitors still employ this [...]
Relevant Tags: ecommerce, language, online design, online work, web design, working from home