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20 Free Design Tools for Ecommerce Merchants
July 25, 2016 • Sig Ueland
Whether building an ecommerce store from scratch or just freshening its look, merchants can find plenty of help with free online design tools. Here is a list of free online design ...
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25 Free Web Design Elements, Spring 2016
May 23, 2016 • Sig Ueland
One of the easiest ways to add value to your website is to utilize free elements offered by the designer community. Design-focused websites, such as Dribble, are excellent resources for ...
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19 Free Website Design Tools
April 10, 2016 • Sig Ueland
There are plenty of free tools and resources to help with your website design, whether you’re looking for a little flare or you want to build a new site from ...
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6 Online Appointment Scheduling Tools, for Service Businesses
January 20, 2016 • Kathleen Fealy
Online appointment scheduling tools provide efficient, practical, and profitable solutions for consulting and professional service businesses to manage their customer, vendor, and prospect communications. Schedulers are appearing on "contact us" forms, support pages, and services forms throughout the web.
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2016 Online Marketing Checkup: 10 Tasks, Tools, Guides
January 6, 2016 • Kathleen Fealy
January is the perfect time to make improvements to your online marketing plan or implement a particular strategy to benefit your business, both in the long and short term. Having a solid foundation as you begin the year will help your business grow and compete more effectively.
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11 Online Video Creation Tools for Small Business Use
July 15, 2015 • Kathleen Fealy
Online video has become an integral part of the business marketing toolkit, especially in an era when the use of mobile devices is commonplace. Despite this fact, small businesses often consider the use of video to be a difficult and expensive undertaking. Business owners worry about everything from the skills needed to produce video content to camera-shy employees to promotion and distribution costs.
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10 Online Backup Services for Small Businesses
July 12, 2015 • Sig Ueland
For small businesses, online backup services offer more than just storage space in the cloud. Complete solutions provide a variety of features to protect your system, including file management, encryption ...
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14 Color Tools to Grow Your Business
June 14, 2015 • Sig Ueland
Color has a powerful affect on consumers. According to KISSmetrics, up to 90 percent of a person’s initial assessment of a product is based solely on color. Bring dynamic color ...
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20 Podcasting Tools, for High-quality Content
March 9, 2015 • Sig Ueland
Podcasting continues to be an effective way to generate rich content for your website. With so many inexpensive and relatively simple tools available to capture and edit audio and video,
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12 Tools to Create Animated GIFs
February 23, 2015 • Sig Ueland
The Graphic Interchange Format can turn a stack of images into a short looping video. Animated GIF images can be embedded into a website, email, or ad — giving viewers ...
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11 Tools for Online Presentations, Videos, Animations
February 18, 2015 • Sig Ueland
Presentation tools can be helpful for creating content, such as product demonstrations to enhance a shopping experience. Oftentimes, slide presentations can be repurposed from your existing content. And, you can ...
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14 Tools for Feedback on Web Design, Usability
January 26, 2015 • Sig Ueland
When launching an online business, be sure to test and improve your design through feedback. Get expert opinions from fellow entrepreneurs and web designers, and test your site’s usability with ...
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14 Product Photography Tools and Resources
August 19, 2014 • Sig Ueland
To create beautiful product photography, take advantage of some terrific and affordable tools and resources. Get the help you need without significant cost. Here is an assortment of tools and resources ...
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15 Tools to Optimize Ecommerce Images
July 28, 2014 • Sig Ueland
Does your website have an acceptable load time? Images usually account for most of the downloadable bytes on a page. Optimizing your images can yield a large boost in your ...
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10 Tools to Create Social Media Graphics
May 14, 2014 • Paul Chaney
With millions of images uploaded each day, social media is now a visual medium. Platforms such as Instagram, Snapchat, Flickr, and Vine make sharing photos and videos much easier than ...
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11 Mobile Website Builders for Ecommerce Merchants
May 5, 2014 • Sig Ueland
There are a variety of solutions for merchants who are interested in establishing or improving their mobile presence. For small businesses just starting, there are affordable do-it-yourself options with basic ...
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WordPress Ecommerce Plugins that Speed Up Redesigns
February 17, 2014 • Joe Robison
In “7 Ecommerce Design Trends for 2014,” we addressed factors that will likely influence ecommerce redesigns in 2014. These include the popularity of images, video, and other rich content, and ...
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5 Tools to Personalize your Marketing Efforts
July 25, 2013 • Jerry Jao
In "8 Tools to Personalize your Ecommerce Site," I discussed methods to customize visitors' experiences on your website. In this article, I'll list five tools to help personalize your advertising and marketing efforts. PadiAct Not everyone is going to buy from you on the first visit....
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8 Tools to Personalize your Ecommerce Site
July 23, 2013 • Jerry Jao
Personalizing an ecommerce site doesn’t have to be difficult or expensive. Often, it’s just about finding the right tool, implementing it on your site, and letting the software do its magic. If you’re thinking about adding more personalization features, the following tools and services ...
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19 Free Design Tools for Your Website
May 29, 2013 • Sig Ueland
If you have a small business website, chances are you can use all the free design help you can get. Here is a list of tools and resources to help you with website design. There are font, icon and image tools, as well as audio and video applications. Also there are resources to give you ideas and generate your design inspiration. All of these tools are free.
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21 Free Tools to Open a WordPress Shop
May 27, 2013 • Sig Ueland
WordPress is a free content management system with an abundance of free plugins and themes to launch and manage an ecommerce shop. If you’re looking for an inexpensive and flexible solution to test the ecommerce waters, WordPress might be right for you. Here is a list of free tools to...
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15 Easy Mobile App Solutions
May 6, 2013 • Sig Ueland
Mobile apps can be easy to make. With the variety of mobile app builders to choose from, even non-coders can build their own mobile apps with ease — from basic catalogs to complex utilities. Here is a list of solutions to build your own mobile app. These tools are primarily for users w...
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11 Free Screencasting Tools
April 22, 2013 • Kevin Webster
Screencasts are an effective way to promote your products or services. As a video tutorial, a product demonstration, or for reviewing the strengths of your company, screencasts offer substantial benefits.
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19 Tools to Test your Site for Mobile Devices
January 21, 2013 • Sig Ueland
Is your ecommerce site ready for mobile commerce? Preparing your site for mobile customers can be daunting, considering the huge range of mobile devices and browsers. Fortunately, there are some great tools available to make sure your site is mobile compatible. Here is a list of tools ...
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8 Tools for Managing Multiple WordPess Sites
January 7, 2013 • Sig Ueland
Managing multiple WordPress sites is getting easier. With the release of WordPress 3.0 and its multisite feature, you can run multiple sites from a single WordPress installation and create a network of sites. However, if you run several websites with a variety of requirements, your need...
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29 New Tools to Develop Your Site
October 9, 2012 • Sig Ueland
Website owners interested in developing their sites can always find a variety of new resources online. Here is a collection of recent tools to develop your site. There are resources to monitor activity, such as backlinks, downtime, and customer behavior. There are wireframe and mockup...
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Qwiki’s New Video Creator May Have Ecommerce Applications
July 2, 2012 • Armando Roggio
A New York-based rich-media technology firm has released a new platform that may make it easier for online retailers to produce product-detail videos with little more than product images and a microphone. Qwiki first announced its Creator platform in May 2012 and set up a private beta ...
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RSS Plumbing with Yahoo! Pipes
May 29, 2012 • Armando Roggio
Yahoo! Pipes is a free content manipulation service that lets you mix and mash up web content using a visual editor that doesn’t require any code writing experience. The Pipes service has been around since February 7, 2007, and is the primarily the work of then Yahoo! Engineers Pasha S...
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Designing Web Forms for Better Conversions; 5 Tips
October 24, 2011 • Armando Roggio
Web forms are the final hurdle shoppers and site visitors must traverse before registering for a newsletter or making a purchase. Even small improvements in the form can make a ...
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10 Tools to Boost Your Ecommerce Business
October 3, 2011 • Armando Roggio
Crowd sourcing, infrastructure-as-a-service, and even marketing intelligence solutions can help small and mid-sized businesses to grow and become more profitable. It is a cliché, perhaps, to say that business is always changing, but nonetheless the way business is conducted does change...
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