Every Tuesday, the Volusion team will be posting quick educational videos to help you further succeed online. Today’s episode teaches you how to design your ecommerce site.
Another week, another Tuesday. Fortunately there’s your favorite web series, Two-minute Tuesday to get you through the week! Today we’ll teach you the basics of how to design your [...]
This week, Volusion was recognized by the esteemed charity, March of Dimes, for our contributions to the organization this year.
One of our core values is to “Rock the Golden Rule.” This means that we treat others as we want to be treated and care for each other, our customers and our community. This week, we [...]
Every Tuesday, the Volusion team will be posting quick educational videos to help you further succeed online. Today’s episode teaches you how to prevent credit card fraud.
Happy Tuesday! Congratulations on making it through another Monday. As a reward for your hard work, take a quick break (two minutes to be exact), and check out the [...]
Every Tuesday, the Volusion team will be posting quick educational videos to help you further succeed online. Today’s episode teaches you some basic ways to better integrate your ecommerce site with social media efforts.
Happy Tuesday! Hope you’re having a great build-up before the Labor Day holiday here in the US. Since you’re already online finalizing [...]
Every Tuesday, the Volusion team will be posting quick educational videos to help you further succeed online. Today’s episode teaches you 6 easy ways to boost conversions on your ecommerce site.
Hello and happy Tuesday! Thanks for joining us for the latest installment of our Two Minute Tuesdays video series. Today you’ll learn a few simple [...]
Facebook is building another ‘index’ of the Web, based on people’s likes and preferences. We show you how to put the Facebook Like Button on your small business ecommerce website.
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
StartUp Internet Business how to start an internet home based business Social media and Email Marketing 5 Benefits of Using Social Media and Email Marketing Share Social media and email marketing are important facets of internet marketing . Social media and email marketing are very important to the success of any internet business . Why Well let us face it that most if not all of your customers are part of some social media and have . emails So as online entrepreneurs we should make the most out of social media as well as email marketing to boost our profits . Maximizing the use of social media and email marketing is something we should be doing because of the benefits it can bring to our online . business Most of our prospects or customers are participating in conversations in social
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
Magento is without doubt the leader of open source ecommerce period. It’s the worlds fastest-growing ecommerce platform and appears to be fully in tune with all of today’s latest SEO and Web 2.0 standards. It therefore surprises me that Magento doesn’t yet include the ability to accept OpenID by default. I’m sure that integrating this [...]Here at e-commerce web design, we read a lot of Packt publications – you may have even seen a few of our reviews of them recently. Well books aside, Packt is a very passionate opensource supporter and they are demonstrating this with their new award ceremony – for opensource software.
Official Press Release:
Packt launch fifth annual [...]Following my recent post about the custom search form I developed for a client, I think it’s important for any ecommerce website to maximise the quality and usability of its search feature. Whenever I go on an ecommerce website, to be honest, I will use the search form. Every time. If only I could apply [...]For the record, I don’t recommend running Magento on a Windows server – I have nothing against IIS, but Magento was really built for Linux servers. Things like URL rewrites become needlessly difficult when they could be as simple as changing a dropdown box in the backend to “Yes”…
However, if you or a client is [...]
Tacklediscounts is one of our more recent UK eBay shop launch, so lets have a look at the unique features of this design! Search is a heavily used feature on eBay so we like to make sure you can get the best out of it. We added some filters for more accurate search for tackle [...]
At CYT we love to help you sell more and look gorgeous doing it. That is why we do what we do! For our eBay designs we create various product ‘featurettes’ for want of a better word so our clients can push various product lines, best sellers and offers. Our feature boxes can be a [...]The Magento software is okay for searches… It has the main basic search form, which can be used to search for keywords in pretty much every attribute that a product has attached to it. Then you have the advanced search form, allowing you to pick and choose which attribute values should be searched for. Attributes [...]This is an update to all the magento meta data posts we’ve had so far. This will allow you to configure meta data and custom page titles.
What the following script will do is:
Check for the default meta info and remove tags
Ability to add meta info to pages individually
Keep old meta data if its not in [...]Those of you that have ever tried to bring back data directly from the Magento database will know that it’s not straightforward at all. For example, you can’t go into the product table and bring back a product of your choice. This is due to to the EAV architecture, something that Magento has introduced to [...]A few weeks ago we were scratching our heads in confusion on how to get the lowest tier-price from magento. If you take a look at your catalog>product>view>tierprices.phtml you will see why – why does such a complicated section of code even exist?
Anyway after a few failed attempts we were contacted this morning by Christiaan [...]If you’ve tried to import images into magento at the same time as your products using the ‘Import Products’ profile, you may have come across a few errors. Whilst trying to import multiple products sing Magento’s ‘Import Products’ profile, I recently ran into one problem after another – though the products imported just fine, my [...]If you have a Magento installation with multiple websites or store views set up on it, you want to cut down on duplications of content wherever possible. It’s good for Magento SEO, and it’s good for occasions when you have to change something such as a store name. Rather than change it wherever it’s mentioned, [...]In conclusion to my earlier post on Ecommerce Web Design, and now the dramatics are over and the chapter is closed: how to get it all working again.
When we left our poor, slightly upgraded website we had a blank frontend, and so, to the third and final lesson I learned from the recent (attempted) upgrade:
Lesson [...]When you move a Magento site from one hosting server to another you may find that your folder/file permissions do not move across with them. This can cause issues such as images not uploading and the Magento Connect Downloader not working. Very annoying – especially if you’re not expecting it. Also those of you who [...]Aheadworks have developed a great extension called Z Blocks, trouble is parts of the manual can be a bit ropey. It tells you how to set up the XML and configure the admin, but it doesn’t tell you how to call your XML into the your phtml file. For those of you without much Magento [...]Recently we installed magento 1.4.1.1 into a subdirectory and we presented with the following error:
“Fatal error: Call to a member function toHtml() on a non-object in /var/www/vhosts/xxx/httpdocs/shop/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Layout.php on line 529″
The main reason for this error is quite simple yet something of a bug. Don’t bother going to the php file in question – you [...]Paypal has issues. The main issue though is the way PayPal reacts when it does not receive the billing address. Unfortunately PayPal only processes card payments if it has the billing address for that card – if you are shipping a product to somewhere else then problems occur…
To counter this, on one of our websites [...]The automatic XML sitemap of Magento has been documented on several occasions as a useful tool for Magento SEO. One thing that’s always bugged me about it however is the fact that by default it indexes the homepage as http://www.yourdomain.com/home rather than just http://www.yourdomain.com. This can be fixed pretty easily because the sitemap is configured [...]
The Decline of Customer Service and the Rise of Self-Service New technologies allow consumers to freely explore seemingly endless amounts of products and information online. Because of this, consumers are becoming increasingly self-reliant. People check-in to flights and hotels with automated machines and purchase groceries through check-out stations. Consumers are responding positively to self-service systems [...]Things in life are much better when they’re local. A local supermarket is better than one 10 miles away. A local pub is even better than that. These values should also be applied to Magento websites, though I wouldn’t recommend building websites in the pub… Following on from Luci’s excellent post about making the CSS [...]This week at ecommerce web design, I’ve had the dreaded task of upgrading an existing, live Magento site to 1.4.1.1 – and not just any upgrade, it’s from 1.3.2.1. I don’t think I was envied in the office.
After much research, several discussions, and a deep breath, I began the process of backing up literally anything [...]