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Emphasize Landing Pages

Emphasize Landing Pages

Landing pages may be the most critical element in converting email traffic of any kind. The flow-through from the email to the landi... 0 Comments | Read More »

Growing Your Email List

Growing Your Email List

An email list always should be growing and improving. From a marketing perspective, list growth starts with excellent content. Getti... 0 Comments | Read More »

Increase Conversions with Alternate Payment Methods

Increase Conversions with Alternate Payment Methods

If you’re not offering several payment methods during checkout, you’re losing business. Aside from the standards – MasterCard and Vi... 0 Comments | Read More »

Increase Newsletter Sign Up

Increase Newsletter Sign Up

Given the importance of email in converting traffic, it’s worth considering giving your newsletter sign up more prominence. On most ... 0 Comments | Read More »

Offer Guest Checkout Option

Offer Guest Checkout Option

Many consumers will not purchase through a website if it requires them to register first. Be sure to offer the option to check out a... 0 Comments | Read More »

Create Retargeting Campaigns

Create Retargeting Campaigns

Your opportunity to convert a shopper into a customer does not end when the shopper abandons your site. The shopper may return later... 0 Comments | Read More »

Product Reviews Build Consumer Trust

Product Reviews Build Consumer Trust

Product reviews can help your customers make good buying choices. A 2009 study from The Nielsen Company found that some 70 percent o... 0 Comments | Read More »

Product Images: Bigger Is Better

Product Images: Bigger Is Better

Product images are among the most effective ways to communicate with customers on an ecommerce site. If the product is not impressiv... 0 Comments | Read More »

Deliver Consistent Messaging Across All Channels

Deliver Consistent Messaging Across All Channels

It is no longer good enough to just provide a standalone online store, and then have it operate in a silo alongside physical stores,... 0 Comments | Read More »

Spruce Up Your Pitch

Spruce Up Your Pitch

Ecommerce merchant Jamie Salvatori advises website owners to use slower months to spruce up their web pages. “The summer is a bit sl... 0 Comments | Read More »

Make Your Site Part of Your Media Plan

Make Your Site Part of Your Media Plan

Eighty percent of shoppers begin their searches on retail websites, which makes your website your front line of consumer engagement.... 0 Comments | Read More »

Video: An Inexpensive Way to Advertise

Video: An Inexpensive Way to Advertise

Online merchant Dean Blakeslee recommends the use of video for paid advertising. “Video seems to be a great way to generate traffic,... 0 Comments | Read More »

Find Your Company's Voice

Find Your Company's Voice

Distinguish yourself from thousands of website competitors by finding your voice. It is your company's unique spin on selling produc... 0 Comments | Read More »

Add Personality to Your Blog

Add Personality to Your Blog

Personality is an essential ingredient to a successful blog. Have your bloggers introduce themselves through an “About” page, and ha... 0 Comments | Read More »

Incorporate a Blog Into Your Site

Incorporate a Blog Into Your Site

In most cases, it's best to incorporate your blog into the main www subdomain of your primary domain name. Other people will link to... 0 Comments | Read More »

Establish Your Own Blog URL

Establish Your Own Blog URL

It’s very foolish not have your own domain name on your blog. For instance, if you have “mycompany.wordpress.com” or “mycompany.blog... 1 Comments | Read More »

Protect Your Site Against Fraud

Protect Your Site Against Fraud

Be sure your website is taking the necessary precautions to protect against fraudulent charges. As ecommerce grows, so does the numb... 0 Comments | Read More »

Use Your Blog to Engage and Inspire

Use Your Blog to Engage and Inspire

Blogs occupy a special place in the heart of search engines — Google in particular — where blog content gets additional rankings ben... 0 Comments | Read More »

Speed Up Page Load Times

Speed Up Page Load Times

In the spring of 2010, Google announced it would factor page speed more heavily into its search ranking algorithm. If your web pages... 0 Comments | Read More »

Blog for Additional Visibility

Blog for Additional Visibility

One benefit to blogging is you get additional visibility in Google blog search, and then Google blog search results oftentimes gets ... 0 Comments | Read More »

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