StartUp Internet Business how to start an internet home based business Powered by Max Banner Ads Online Community 6 Benefits of Online Community Share If you're new here , you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed Thanks for visiting 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 .
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
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 If you're new here , you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed Thanks for visiting 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
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 If you're new here , you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed Thanks for visiting 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
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
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
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
Have you ever wondered how to add Magento Attribute Options to an Attribute in Magento via a spreadsheet or csv file? Well I have - and here’s a little php snippet that I created for you to do it. Be careful – this code is a little rough around the edges but it should give [...]
Heading to Boston for the 2011 Shop.org Annual Summit? Meet us at Booth #1113 with a free EXPO Hall pass on us!
Join us in Boston from September 12-14 for the Annual Shop.org summit. With over 3,500 attendees and a sold out EXPO Hall – this year’s Shop.org Summit will prove to be digital retail’s most [...]
You cannot manage what you do not measure.
This single phrase simply can’t be ignored. Without measurement there is no gauge on progress and it becomes virtually impossible to determine if your efforts are effective at building your business and reaching your goals.
Despite this, I find it incredibly stunning how many business do not take [...]It’s something that has no doubt been covered countless times before, but I’ve not personally covered it on this blog. Adding static block content to your Magento website can be easily done with XML, by using the following code: Example I want a content-managed area in my left sidebar, across the whole site so that [...]
For today’s Partner Spotlight, we sat down with Mark McCormack of Proforma, a leading solutions provider to North American businesses for their graphic communications needs. Continue reading to learn more about Mark’s Proforma franchise and their growing success.
We consider each member of the Volusion Partner Network to be exactly what they are, partners. Whether they’re [...]
We’re excited to announce the latest enhancement to our ecommerce platform, Volusion CDN, powered by Akamai. This addition is proven to increase your site speed by up to 60%!
Fasten your seatbelts – your site speed is shifting into overdrive.
We’re thrilled to announce our latest product enhancement, Volusion CDN, powered by Akamai. Currently available on all [...]Every new Magento site requires its own local.xml file for all layout edits, and like all developers I find myself using a lot of the same code again and again. I decided to put most of the elements that I normally require from my local.xml files into a boilerplate for use every time I start [...]Here’s a nice little function that you may want to use to view your orders from a certain date range. In my example I’m going to show you how to view your orders from last month (i.e the first of last month to the last second of that month) and also Year-To-Date. First of all [...]On October, 26th the first Meet Magento UK, Europe´s leading conference in Magento eCommerce, takes place in London. Submissions for limited speaker slots are still possible and the ticket sales have just started. Meet Magento is an international and official Magento eCommerce conference series that deals with Magento´s latest technical developments, business models and trends. [...]
To stay informed of how things are going at Volusion headquarters, take a look at how our Out of this World Support fared in July 2011.
In a previous blog post, I wrote about our decision earlier this year to dramatically change the focus of our support team to emphasize quality, responsiveness and “wow factor” over [...]
A really quick one today folks…. I recently had a client who a had a flat rate on delivery (great), but wanted certain products to ship for free.. Without purchasing a shipping plugin with that ability enabled there wasn’t an obvious way of doing this on Magento. Forget using a plugin, forget catalogue or shopping [...]
Thanks to Volusion customer, PartyCheap.com, we had a chance to take a luxurious cruise indoors! Check out the pictures from our version of a summer vacation.
With the amount of work we’ve been putting in lately, some well-deserved R&R was in order.
What better way to take a quick break than going on a cruise?
Only problem is [...]
Many of you might have seen the post about adding products into Google by using a manual method here: Google Products What a lot of people may not know is that you can schedule your google base script to run via a cron job – and then schedule Google itself to pick up on your [...]
Ever feel like you can do something more with your online business? You can. Check out this feature on Volusion customer, Draper Therapies, to be inspired by their philanthropic efforts that are truly making an impact.
In troubled economic times, it’s easy to put ourselves and our profits ahead of others.
But for Draper [...]