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eCommerce

Amazon Announces $1 Billion In Product Sales From Mobiles

July 30, 2010

 Amazon has just announced its latest sales results for the last quarter showing  sales of $6.57 billion and with that it also provided some figures that revealed in excess of  $1 billion of product sales from mobile devices for the last 12 months. That puts the percentage of sales from mobiles compared to desktops at nearly 5% of [...]

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5 Ways To Humanize and Socialize Your Online Store

June 21, 2010

Your online store can be a bit of an impersonal place and the challenge with an ecommerce store is trying to make the experience online as close to the bricks and mortar in store experience as possible.
There are a few ways to provide a more social and humanized experience online that makes the online store and the brand [...]

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7 Ways To Grow Your Business With A Dynamic Website

May 31, 2010

 The challenge for each business whether it a start up or an existing enterprise is the challenge of continuing to grow. This ongoing challenge is repeated every day. It doesn’t matter if it is an online store or a bricks and mortar enterprise the principles remain the same.

Here are “Seven Ways To Grow Your Business” and some tips [...]

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Are You Ready To Take Your Business Online Or Is It A Dinosaur?

May 27, 2010

I was doing some research recently and I came upon a statistic that really jolted me. That information was that nearly half of all businesses (46% to be precise) don’t have a website. Did I hear someone saying.. “you have to be joking!” (I have just checked the calendar and I have verified by the way that it is 2010 [...]

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Who Are The Top 5 Online Retailers That Are Growing At 977 Percent?

May 7, 2010

Online retail is picking up pace in Australia with sales for 2010 predicted to exceed $20 Billion  for the first time this year.
I thought it would be worth having a look at the growth rate of the top online retailers to see what is happening in the market.
In this article we will look at the top 5 and [...]

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Why Would Your eCommerce Website Need 13 Blogs?

February 4, 2010

Zappos is an online shoe retailer that was recently sold to Amazon for $928 million. They are well known for using the latest technology including social media such as Twitter and online video to enhance their marketing and word of mouth. Part of their success comes down to their exceptional customer service. What caught my eye recently is that [...]

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Why Use Open Source Technology For Your Brands Website?

February 3, 2010

A lot of people don’t understand what is meant by open source software (OSS) that drives a lot of the web in the 21st century including software that is used for developing websites for companies and brands. We constantly have clients come to us and say that they want to change their website but as [...]

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E-Commerce Study: One Page Checkout vs Multi-Step Shows An Improvement of 21.8%

January 21, 2010

As E-commerce continues to expand worldwide the online merchant is confronted with many different variables to monitor, measure and consequently improve the online store.
One significant factor that can provide major benefits is  by analyzing and improving the checkout process. A lot of the older eCommerce platforms have multiple page checkout and a recent A/B Test case [...]

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10 Ways To Put Your Website Content In Front Of More People and Drive More Traffic

January 6, 2010

Which is more important, driving traffic to your website or encouraging as many people as possible to see your content? Believe it or not, they are not one and the same.
Too often, we as website owners live and die by web analytics applications. We fret about bounce rates, unique visitors and dwell time. However, when [...]

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10 Key Strategies To Make Your Website an Inbound Online Marketing Machine

December 22, 2009

In over 20 years in sales and marketing I have made many cold calls. Over the last 12 months I have not made one cold phone call or bought any expensive mass media marketing, yet sales have increased and business is much more fun. Isn’t there a better use of your time and money? [...]

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