StartUp Internet Business how to start an internet home based business Online Community 6 Benefits of Online Community Share Online communities represent a great opportunity . When you join an online community you get the chance to convert relationships with other community members into revenues . Joining an online community can be proved fruitful if you know how to go about it and also if you know the right way to engage other . members Not only will an online community increase your sales it can also save you a lot of money when it comes to advertising . Next to blogging , joining an online community is one of the less expensive ways of getting the word out about your business . The success of your online business centers on its capability to produce a well-built community with its
StartUp Internet Business how to start an internet home based business Online Marketing Trends 6 Online Marketing Trends that Entrepreneurs Should Know Share If you're new here , you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed Thanks for visiting Online Marketing Trends If you are starting-up your own online business then you know how important it is to allocate your money wisely . Investing your capital wisely will enable you to get a return on your investment as well as lessen the risks . Now of course as an online marketer you cannot help but invest in various marketing channels , right It will be in your best interest that you take a closer look at the online marketing trends before . investing Understanding the changing online marketing trends will help you perform better and also will
StartUp Internet Business how to start an internet home based business 5 Tips to Attract Customers and Spread the Word about your Online Business Share The main reason why you build a website is to attract customers and spread the word about your online business . As I have said time and again although it is not a requirement , building a website has its advantages . Having your own website gives you an edge compared to other online businesses without a website when it comes to your goal to attract customers and spread the word about your . business The thing is there are times that it seems like your website is not able to attract customers and it does not do anything when it comes to spreading the word about your online . business To be honest there are plenty of factors that can cause
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StartUp Internet Business how to start an internet home based business Website Features 3 Website Features To Include Share If you're new here , you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed Thanks for visiting Thinking and deciding which website features to include is not as easy as it seems to be . If you are not versed on website development and design then it would be indeed difficult to decide which website features to include on your . website Knowing which website features to include is important because that would make a difference between a sale and shopping cart abandonment . So as online entrepreneurs who utilize the power of the internet we should know the basics of which website features to . include And so today we will talk about three important website features to include .
StartUp Internet Business how to start an internet home based business Grow your Business 5 Tips to Help you Grow your Online Business Share If you're new here , you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed Thanks for visiting In the past I have talked about how to boost your profits using various techniques . It does not matter if you already have an established business or you are just starting-up , those strategies are formulated to boost profits and grow your business in the long . run To truly grow your business you need to look at things all of which are important when you want to grow your . business Acquiring more leads Being able to convert your leads into paying customers Convince your customers to make bigger purchases Convince customers to buy frequently Get more sales at higher
StartUp Internet Business how to start an internet home based business Content Management System 7 Advantages of Content Management Systems Share If you're new here , you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed Thanks for visiting As what I have said in my previous articles the reason why plenty websites fail to perform what the entrepreneur is expecting is basically because of obsolete contents . Always keep in mind the adage , content is king . The reason why many websites fail to maximize its performance is because the content is not up to . date Because there is a need to update your website on a constant basis content management systems came about . I mean if you are a visitor and you arrive at a website expecting to see valuable information but you arrive to a website with out-of-date
You’ve just exported your Magento products to a csv file and opened it up in Open Office or Excel to find that all the commas that once separated the different categories that each product is a part of have disappeared. You’re left with one, long number that if uploaded will mess up the very existence [...]
There is a very common occurrence in websites. A bad character will appear on your web page for no reason whatsoever. Or so you thought…
Some amateur designers and developers can sometimes forget to play web-safe. Meaning your pound signs should be written £ rather than £ or your & symbols should be written &. However [...]It’s that time again! A new version of magento is out and about – terrorizing your neighborhood! It’s called 1.4.1.1 – not as catchy as the “beast of Bodmin moor” but what are you gonna do?
Some of the major changes in this one you can find here.
But from a quick skim through of the release [...]
Every Tuesday, the Volusion team will be posting quick educational videos to help you further succeed online. Today’s episode teaches you how to choose a web host.
It may not quite be Friday, but hopefully this will put a little spring in your step. Today’s Two Minute Tuesday, or what we call 2MT for short, details [...]There may come a point in your lives when you need to find some images in a folder. There are many reasons why this may be so, but not many that come to my mind immediately – only this – find all images and organize them for some reason.
Well here is a function that I’ve [...]
Just a quick post about a strange problem that occurred when transferring or migrating a site between plesk servers the other day.
Basically the error we received was one I have seen many times but not in magento. The error was:
The problem was simply when the site migrated, the database connection info was reset. I don’t [...]
For this tutorial, you will need the modern theme installed.
What we are going to do is to add an attribute to our attribute set where you can embed the youtube video code. This will then display on the front end of the website for your products.
The files you will need to create/edit are:
- app/design/frontend/default(or base)/default/catalog/products/view/youtube.phtml [...]
Every Tuesday, the Volusion team will be posting quick educational videos to help you further succeed online. Today’s episode teaches you how to choose a shopping cart.
Now that we’ve all survived another Manic Monday, it’s time for another installment of our Two minute Tuesday series! Today’s episode gives you a step-by-step checklist to help you [...]Picture the scene – all is going well, the site has launched and is happily taking orders just fine.. until.. one day, one order comes in strange and the packaging hasn’t been taken into account on the PayPal end. But it only happens once so you hope it was a glitch and move on.
Then it [...]
The Volusion team recently traveled to the land down under to attend the 2010 Online Retailer in Sydney.
The Volusion team trekked across the world to attend the 2010 Online Retailer Conference and Exhibition in Sydney from July 6-9 to showcase our award-winning shopping cart software and meet some of our successful online business owners.
Online [...]I did a tutorial ages ago about how to import the subcategories of a product within another category via a static block. The details were shady and the logic was sketchy in those days, now I can look upon it with a sense of absolute knowledge and appreciation. Before digressing uncontrollably, let me get straight [...]This post will form a part of a triangle of posts that I have written in order to explain the processes by which you can provide Google with an up to date dynamic sitemap that is optimised for your magento website.
This post will be about generating your Google Sitemap from the Magento admin section, Making [...]
At Ecommerce Web Design, we’re big fans of using Wordpress as blogging software which can be installed alongside Magento seamlessly, and provide a clean, open-source blogging solution. It’s free, easy to install, accessible and literally bursting with plugins.
However if you want another solution which integrates into the same backend as the Magento one, I’d recommend [...]
When designing ecommerce websites first and foremost consideration must be usability, and then design. Or, if you prefer, design with usability in mind.
I’ve collected (so far) 10 examples of what I think are great ecommerce web designs from across the board. In no particular order:
Paul Frank
Bright, colourful and straight away in-your-face (but in a good [...]
When it comes to optimising your brand spanking new magento site you may want to think about things like googles webmaster tools and analytics.
Webmaster tools keeps track of the number of pages that have been indexed on your website (the number of pages that google has at its disposal to perform searches on) as well [...]
Every Tuesday, the Volusion team will be posting quick educational videos to help you further succeed online. Watch and subscribe at www.youtube.com/volusion. Today’s episode covers the basic question of, “What is ecommerce?”
If it’s the second day of the work week, it must be time for Two Minute Tuesdays. This video series is intended to help [...]
Plesk is a terrific control panel for multiple reasons – it allows complete administration for all of your websites that are hosted there. This includes the setup of SSL certificates, local database access, SSH access, the ability to switch domains off at the flick of a switch and much more. By much more I’m talking [...]We’ve had our fair share of posts about the Modern theme, including various ways to install it and the problems that came along with 1.4.0 when it didn’t apparently sit properly. One way around it was to move the modern theme contents into the /base folder and change the package to the base package. This [...]Relatively easy on the surface, and, granted, application this is a question that comes up fairly often – so I thought I’d answer it. This is a topic we’ve covered before with a slightly different method on our Magento Blog at Ecommerce web design, and you can read Adam’s earlier post here.
How do I display [...]
Every Tuesday, the Volusion team will be posting quick educational videos to help you further succeed online. Watch and subscribe at www.youtube.com/volusion.
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We’re pumped about kicking off our latest addition to our YouTube channel, Two-Minute Tuesdays! The goal of this new video series is to provide you with ecommerce insight in a quick and easy format. [...]
In a recent project I had to remove websites, stores and store views in Magento because I simply didn’t need them any more. I couldn’t wait to get into that admin area and clear it all up. It’ll be nice and simple, I’ll just open the store view and look for the nice red ‘Remove [...]
As an early advocate of Web 2.0, nothing please me more than seeing mashups happening across the Internet on a grand scale. So when I saw an official Magento Blog post containing the words Magento and Skype, I was instantly very interested. Well, this isn’t a mashup. The bottom line is that Skype now use [...]