• Online Community – 6 Benefits of Online Community

    Updated: 2011-04-30 20:12:09
    StartUp Internet Business how to start an internet home based business Powered by Max Banner Ads 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

  • Online Marketing Trends – 6 Online Marketing Trends that Entrepreneurs Should Know

    Updated: 2011-04-30 20:12:09
    StartUp Internet Business how to start an internet home based business Powered by Max Banner Ads 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

  • 5 Tips to Attract Customers and Spread the Word about your Online Business

    Updated: 2011-04-30 20:12:09
    StartUp Internet Business how to start an internet home based business Powered by Max Banner Ads 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

  • Social media and Email Marketing – 5 Benefits of Using Social Media and Email Marketing

    Updated: 2011-04-30 20:12:09
    StartUp Internet Business how to start an internet home based business Powered by Max Banner Ads 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

  • Website Features – 3 Website Features To Include

    Updated: 2011-04-30 20:12:09
    StartUp Internet Business how to start an internet home based business Powered by Max Banner Ads 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

  • Grow your Business – 5 Tips to Help you Grow your Online Business

    Updated: 2011-04-30 20:12:09
    StartUp Internet Business how to start an internet home based business Powered by Max Banner Ads 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

  • Content Management System – 7 Advantages of Content Management Systems

    Updated: 2011-04-30 20:12:09
    StartUp Internet Business how to start an internet home based business Powered by Max Banner Ads 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

  • Ecommerce Roundtable: How to Write PPC Ads That Actually Work

    Updated: 2011-04-30 04:11:03
    The success of your PPC ads largely depends on what they say. Watch this video to learn how to write PPC ads, including best practices and special hints to help you save money. Writing PPC ads can be stressful. There’s a lot to say without much room to say it. And to make things worse, you’re [...]

  • Volusion Partner Spotlight: Brand Labs

    Updated: 2011-04-28 20:11:02
    Volusion is proud to work closely with a wide range of partners to enhance our shopping cart software and provide additional resources to our customer base. One partnership that has truly stood out is Michigan-based Brand Labs. . Since 2006, Brand Labs has been wowing clients using Volusion’s ecommerce platform exclusively.  Brand Labs’ founders, Kevin Harman and [...]

  • Ecommerce Remarketing: Use a Soft-Sell Tone

    Updated: 2011-04-28 20:10:58
    We offer tips on how to create the perfect remarketing email message using a gentle, soft-sell tone. Plus, industry expert Ariel Finkelstein explains why this marketing method works.

  • Magento captcha with recaptcha

    Updated: 2011-04-28 11:14:02
    The recaptcha plugin provided by Google is currently used about 30 million times a day to prevent form auto/robot submission, which isn’t bad going. In this post I will show you how to make your e-commerce store give Google few more thousand captcha challenges a day! To generate recaptcha into your form were going to [...]

  • FastSpring Integrates Quick License Manager

    Updated: 2011-04-27 20:24:49
    Quick License Manager, a product of Soraco Technologies, provides a hands-off solution to licensing and protecting your software application. With this integration, FastSpring expands its support of multiple licensing options for software vendors. Quick License Manager is a software protection tool that allows you to protect your software application with secure license keys. How does [...]

  • Volusion Named Double Finalist at 2011 SIIA CODiE Awards

    Updated: 2011-04-27 20:09:15
    Volusion was recently announced as a 2011 SIIA CODiE Awards finalist in two fields within the Business Software Category, including Best Electronic Commerce Solution and Best Web Services Solution.  This is Volusion’s seventh consecutive nomination for a CODiE Award. It’s nice to be recognized. It’s even nicer to be recognized seven years in a row. That’s why we’re [...]

  • Current Product Data with Mage::registry

    Updated: 2011-04-27 15:14:59
    When working on Magento product pages it’s very common to want to retrieve this product data in files other than the main view.phtml file. For Magento developers this may include the custom options file (options.phtml), or maybe even the left_col.phtml sidebar. This allows you to use live product data in your sidebar, to provide the [...]

  • How Crusty Content is Hurting Your Ecommerce Site (And How to Fix It) | Volusion’s Two Minute Tuesdays

    Updated: 2011-04-27 02:31:55
    Customers that find outdated copy are quickly turned off and are less willing to purchase. Take a look at how you can identify and fix crusty content on your ecommerce site and keep your copywriting up to date. Your web copy offends me. Not because it’s crude or vulgar, because it’s old. It’s crusty. For example, that events [...]

  • Manage Magento On Your Mobile (App)

    Updated: 2011-04-26 11:51:01
    There has been a recent development in the world of Magento these past few months, mainly in the realm of the mobile app. Webgility have released an ECC app that allows you to connect to your magento store via your mobile. Once connected you are then able to look at all of your orders, your [...]

  • Facebook Commerce

    Updated: 2011-04-25 14:06:21
    Last month Webtrends and Adgregate Markets published a white paper investigating “The Effect of Social Networks and the Mobile Web on Website Traffic and the Inevitable Rise of Facebook Commerce”. The key findings and investigation undertaken to reach these findings made for an interesting read; and should encourage those with a website and a Facebook page [...]

  • Ecommerce Roundtable: How to Choose Keywords for PPC

    Updated: 2011-04-22 23:09:15
    Wondering how to pick the right keywords for your PPC campaign? You’re not alone. Watch today’s roundtable to learn helpful strategies to make sure you’re making the best PPC keyword decisions. Keywords are to PPC like an engine to a car. Without them, you’re not going anywhere. Selecting your keywords for a PPC campaign is one of [...]

  • 5 Hosted Ecommerce Storefronts for eBay Sellers and SMBs

    Updated: 2011-04-22 15:08:26
    We show you what to look for when shopping for your first online hosted storefront service, plus offer a list of five hosted storefront vendors to get you started.

  • WP Auctions 4.0, Alpha

    Updated: 2011-04-22 15:08:24
    The wait is almost over, WP Auctions 4.0 is almost ready for you to use, enjoy and make money with! But first, we have to take it for test spin. If you are a Pro Plus customer you should have gotten an email by now saying that you can download the Alpha version of the plugin from your member accounts. Please read the email carefully as there are some important...

  • Join us at IRCE! (And get a discount for it.)

    Updated: 2011-04-21 20:31:11
    Attend the world’s largest ecommerce event and receive a discounted registration rate! Get excited! (We sure are.) Why? It’s almost time for the Internet Retailer Conference & Exhibition (IRCE)! Join us in San Diego June 14-17, 2011 for the 7th annual event where you’ll meet 7,000+ e-retail professionals, attend 100 conference sessions, and visit 475 exhibiting companies. With [...]

  • Bestsellers on Homepage: Part II

    Updated: 2011-04-21 14:04:24
    Sequels are very rarely as good as the originals. They often don’t live up to the same level because the element of surprise has been lost and it’s often difficult to come up with a new concept. I hope to follow the likes of Godfather Part II, Terminator 2 and The Empire Strikes Back…. though [...]

  • Boost Your Email Marketing for Free with iContact

    Updated: 2011-04-20 20:29:23
    Our partner, iContact, recently announced a free edition of their leading email marketing solution. Check out what they have to offer and take your email campaigns to the next level, for free! As any online business owner knows, email marketing is an important tool to boost sales and retain customers. Whether you’re segmenting your customers or [...]

  • 5 Pricing Mistakes That Kill Your Profits | Volusion’s Two Minute Tuesdays

    Updated: 2011-04-20 12:28:40
    Are you your online store’s own worst enemy? If you’re not correctly pricing the products of your ecommerce site, your business can quickly lose profits and fail. Take a look at these common mistakes to ensure that you’re making as much revenue as possible while staying ahead of the competition. You have an [...]

  • Do You Need Mobile Commerce?

    Updated: 2011-04-20 12:28:35
    Is mobile commerce the next step for your small business ecommerce website? Join our panel of experts in a Twitter Chat and get answers to your mobile commerce questions.

  • Establish a Magento Database Connection

    Updated: 2011-04-20 10:31:57
    As great (and time-saving) as the Magento database functions are, it’s sometimes nice to run your own SQL queries without having to be potentially restricted by anything. This post kinda speaks for itself so I’ll keep it short and will not make any further jokes about my skills in la cuisine. What does a Magento [...]

  • Add Bulk Emails to Newsletter Subscriber List

    Updated: 2011-04-19 10:48:43
    When you want to get just a big bulk list of emails from a previous email account you had set up and wanted to import it into your Magento subscriber database there are a few ways to do it. Personally I prefer writing it via an SQL statement though you can use the inbuilt subscribe [...]

  • Ecommerce Roundtable: Pay Per Click or Perish?

    Updated: 2011-04-16 00:19:54
    . Can your online business survive without pay per click advertising? From brand awareness to customer acquisition, this form of online marketing is definitely worth considering. Join us for today’s Ecommerce Roundtable, where Kate and Bryan discuss the importance and benefits of starting with paid search. Pay per click advertising, also known as PPC or paid [...]

  • Install Fancybox for Magento

    Updated: 2011-04-15 14:36:32
    Fancybox, the Lightbox alternative, is the king of the floating content world. With slick shadows and the ability to display pretty much anything you can embed into a HTML document, it reigns supreme. If you want to hack up the main templates and are available for a first class ticket to copy and paste hell, [...]

  • Indicate Free Custom Options on Radio Buttons

    Updated: 2011-04-14 01:56:04
    This one is a very simple concept but needed to be tweaked carefully in the file it was concerned with. Basically, with a custom option Magento has a nice function which displays the price difference after the label on a custom option which is a radio button. This little hack will add ‘FREE’ after any [...]

  • Email Marketing Tips: Add Visual Imagery

    Updated: 2011-04-13 22:51:30
    We've got five tips to optimize images in your email marketing campaigns.

  • Top 5 Magento Admin Improvements

    Updated: 2011-04-13 16:39:30
    The Magento admin area is a bit like Birmingham New Street Station, it’s been around for absolutely ages, it’s not always easy to find what you’re looking for, there’s endless announcements and it is now starting to look quite dated. Though admittedly, I’ve never waited for hours on end in the Magento Admin area… I [...]

  • “My Ecommerce Sales are Slow. What the #$!%?” | Volusion’s Two Minute Tuesdays

    Updated: 2011-04-13 06:48:35
    h. If you’ve ever wondered why your ecommerce site is having a slow sales day, it could be a number of factors. Watch today’s episode to learn 6 items to consider when questioning the performance of your online store. Does this sound familiar? It’s shaped to be a normal day for your online business. You wake up [...]

  • Sagepay IE9 Error (disabled form)

    Updated: 2011-04-12 09:43:53
    I have had a few calls over the past couple of weeks claiming that IE9 (internet explorer 9) and the FREE Sagepay (Protx) Direct CE extension do not work well together. They do not work well together at all. From what I could tell, IE9 shows the forms correctly, but all fields are disabled – [...]

  • Why SEO Needs to Die, Right Now

    Updated: 2011-04-12 01:40:59
    SEO needs to die. Like, now. While at a party, I had three different people ask me about SEO. Not only did the questions kill my buzz, they made me angry. This is what I endured while I watched the ice melt in my margarita: “Can you help me be found on Google?” “What do I do for Google [...]

  • Another reason why Amazon.com’s the online retailer to beat

    Updated: 2011-04-11 01:30:00
    How’s this for an example of why it’s safe to pre-order products at e-retail powerhouse Amazon.com? You saved $1.12 with Amazon.com’s Pre-order Price Guarantee! The price of the item(s) decreased after you ordered them, and we gave you the lowest price. The following title(s) decreased in price: City of Fallen Angels (Mortal Instruments, Book 4) [...]

  • Ecommerce Roundtable: The Importance of Paid Shopping Engines

    Updated: 2011-04-08 23:39:56
    . Join us for today’s Ecommerce Roundtable, where Bryan and Molly discuss the importance of paid versions of comparison shopping engines. Welcome to our third and final roundtable on comparison shopping engines (CSEs). In today’s episode, Bryan and Molly teach me the importance of paid versions of CSEs, such as Nextag and PriceGrabber. Essentially, these shopping engines are [...]

  • Install Magento and setup MySQL via SSH

    Updated: 2011-04-08 11:31:17
    It’s a lovely day here at E-commerce web design HQ, To spread the love here are a few shell commands to speed up your Magento installation and to set up your database. To login to your server open up terminal on Mac/Unix (PuTTy/SSH Client/Cygwin if your a PC) and use the following command. ssh example.com [...]

  • Shop Adorn Boosts Revenue, Removes Headaches with Volusion

    Updated: 2011-04-08 07:38:43
    With determination and lots of entrepreneurial spirit, Nicole Whitesell turned her small eBay operation into a fully blown online business. Since moving to Volusion, Shop Adorn has increased revenue by 500%. Nicole Whitesell was born to run a business. “When I was in middle school, I would play library with the neighbor kids. Through me they could [...]

  • Twitter Marketing Tips to Expand Twitter Reach and Exposure

    Updated: 2011-04-07 03:42:16
    In this Twitter marketing guide we offer tips and tools to help you discover your Twitter reach and message exposure.

  • Magento Product List in Random Order

    Updated: 2011-04-07 01:02:55
    I’ve never been much of a gambler, but I do like leaving things down to chance. There’s something about the unknown that keeps life interesting, even when you have to share the good moments with the bad moments. Not to say that I’d happily blow a few grand on a craps table, mind…. If, like [...]

  • Since You Asked: How to Upload a CSV File

    Updated: 2011-04-06 19:40:05
    . Uploading a CSV file is a powerful tool to help add and manage lots of data in bulk. Once you learn how to work with CSV files, you’ll spend far less time manually updating data in your store. Check out today’s video, where Amanda walks you through the process and offers some helpful troubleshooting tips. [...]

  • Create a Static, Extended Navigation Menu

    Updated: 2011-04-06 16:09:34
    I’m no chef. I recently warned you off my stir fry, but you’ll much prefer today’s menu. Today’s menu is not concerned with food, but with Magento. You can’t really cross the two things unless you’re eating a slice of the foxes Magento Cake. Anyway, there’s no starters and no sides, let’s get straight into [...]

  • How To Write A Killer Ecommerce Return Policy | Two Minute Tuesdays

    Updated: 2011-04-06 03:38:33
    . Your online business needs a solid ecommerce return policy to help boost customer satisfaction and diminish product returns and chargebacks. Watch this video to learn more about creating a killer policy that will benefit your online store and operations. Here’s the transcript in case you’d prefer to read along: Hi everybody! My name is Matt and I’m [...]

  • Latest tweet for Magento

    Updated: 2011-04-05 09:46:27
    Today I’m going to show you how you can include your latest tweet into magento using the inbuilt Zend RSS method. Twitter comes with its own RSS feed for every twitter page. We can use this RSS feed to create  list of recent tweets. There are quite a few pre-built versions of this – but [...]

  • Webinar - Abandoned Shopping Cart Recovery

    Updated: 2011-04-04 21:51:00
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