Category Archives: Ecommerce

Kiss and Sell – Conversion Rate Optimization – Tip # 4

The simpler you can make your online processes the better. The easier it is for your customers to interact with your site the more money you’ll make, the more leads you’ll get, the more conversions you’ll get etc. Just think … Continue reading

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Confessions of Conversion Rate Commando

There’s more to it than just conversion rate. For the past 12 years I have been a conversion rate fanatic, evangelist and downright pain to some people over conversion rates. While my obsession has not been without good reason, for … Continue reading

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Is Your Customer Data Secure? - Very Unlikely.

Most businesses are making it incredibly easy for organised criminals to steal critical data, according a new report from Verizon Business. While organised crime is getting more and more innovative about online crime, many businesses seem to be going backwards … Continue reading

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Ten Free Online Marketing Tools

A while back, I put together a list of 10 free tools to enable you to build an online business for free. (Actually, it ended up being 21, but who’s counting.) Anyway, I already have another 10 that I just … Continue reading

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Online Advertising – the Last Thing You Should Do

And the Top Five Things To Do First Ninety nine percent of online advertising doesn’t work. Two more reports highlight the appalling click thru rates generated by online ads. One from Adtech and another from ABI. photo credit: Pascale PirateChickan … Continue reading

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Online Marketers Pay Lip Service to Conversion Rate Optimization

photo credit: kimberlyfaye More than 90 percent of all online marketers and businesses are leaving vast amounts of money and business on the table by ignoring conversion rate optimisation. A recent survey by Alterian found that less than half of … Continue reading

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Email Still King of Online Marketing

A recent survey by Datran Media shows that good old email is still the number one tactic for producing online marketing results. Over 80% of the marketers surveyed said email was the most effective online marketing tactic, followed by search … Continue reading

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How Validation Will Increase Your Conversions and Profits

In This Story: Validate for Profit Why Standards Matter Avoid Legal Action Obey The Law Build Trust To put it simply – validating your site (making it standards compliant) will increase your conversions, sales and profits. It will also prevent … Continue reading

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Content is Not King – it is Supreme

How Web 3.0, the Semantic Web Will Affect Everything The web of the future is going to make content supreme. What’s more, it’s going to make it incredibly valuable in ways that may finally see content creators get real reward … Continue reading

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Never Pay For Web Development Again

10 Free Solutions To Give You a Complete Website When I first began working in e-commerce I was regularly "quoted" seriously high six figure amounts just to build a website, with another similar amount required for implementation.(It wasn’t that long … Continue reading

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