E-commerce business is booming, and there are several ways you can get in on the action and make money with your online business. One of the ways to do this is to encourage current customers, in the middle of a sale, to make an impulse buy for an additional item. Suggest similar items or an [...]

As we’ve discussed before, your Web site is your online business in the e-commerce world. If you are looking to be able to take online orders automatically, you need to have an Internet order form that is easy to find on your e-commerce Web site, and easy to use. It should also be clear and [...]

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 [...]

When cooking, it makes good sense to read through the
recipe before hand and be sure you have all you need at your disposal before
firing up the stove.  Online business is not much different. 
Many good intentions end in disaster
as up an coming internet business owners are too eager to go live without first
setting a good [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I remember the days when "MA Bell" owned every wire in the sky and the ground for everything telephone.  There wasn’t anything you could do if you didn’t like the service that the Bell Corporation gave you… you just disconnected the phone all together.
As a young kid, I remember the party line where in our [...]

More and more the headlines tell of us online profits soaring for major retailers.  Now some of those retailers are getting the big picture:  Their online profits can exceed their retail profits and reduce their overhead.
Syracuse’s The Post Standard reported such an incident recently where a brick and mortar retailer closed it’s doors during hours [...]

An efficient website is a more profitable website.  Tweaking your site can increase your profitability as much as 25%. 
Take a look at your books. Could you use another 25% added to your revenue?
It’s shocking to realize that simple site tweaks could really earn you
that much more money, but sites that engage readers keep them [...]