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Do You Really Need a Brand for Your Small E-commerce Business

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If you operate a Small E-commerce Business , you may think that branding is not for you but the big names and brick-and-mortar stores, small e-commerce stores just need to get on and do the job. The truth is, in spite of the size of business, branding is crucial, no matter if you sell handcrafted jewelry, phone cases or pet toys online. Let’s put it this way, if you care about the reputation and long-term prosperity (who doesn’t), I might then get your attention here. What Others Say About You Reputation is almost synonymous of branding. More accurately, branding is about the impression you make, it is “what people say about you when you are not in the room”, according to Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon. Of course, you can leave a positive impression in the mind of your target customers even without working on anything related to branding. But the perceptions can change or evolve in just seconds, so, you can either just let whatever impression you give happen haphazardly, or y...

Implement Magento for Having a Successful E-commerce Business

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Selecting the most suitable e-commerce platform for creating, managing and maintaining for your online store is a vital thing, as it can be the responsible factor for your business success or failure. Magento- Most Powerful Ecommerce Platform Magento is the platform which is developed by those who understand that what you need in an e-commerce application. Magento lets you build the outstanding stores with the advanced features which always rank high on the search engines if it is designed in right way. It does most of the work for receiving the customer orders and processing them, so you can focus on the marketing and selling. In this way Magento focuses on providing you the Best Ecommerce Solution . What Makes the Magento- the Best E-commerce Platform? Versatile Content Management: An instinctive, visual based page editor allows the shop owners to build and customize their offerings on the fly. Mobile Friendly: Magento shopping carts are dev...

Reasons to Start an E-Commerce Business?

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When you type ecommerce business into a search engine, the top three articles are typically about tips on how to make your business successful, how to ensure your website works fluently on all platforms and etc. However, what is missing in those is why you should start an ecommerce business in the first place. Here are three reasons Why you Should Start an Ecommerce Business . Make Money Around the Clock The majority of the Western Society typically works what we call the “9 to 5” job. Meaning you clock in at 9 a.m. and clock out at 5 p.m. or whatever variation your business uses. However, anything before, after or on the weekend you aren’t being paid. But having an ecommerce website provides you the opportunity to make money we aren’t sitting at your office desk behind the computer. Have a job that doesn’t pay you while on vacation or sick? If you answered yes, it doesn’t matter if you’re sick or on vacation having an e-commerce business will ensure that money will a...

What is Ecommerce Micro Conversion?

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As an e-commerce business owner, you need to focus on the big picture such as revenue, traffic, growth strategy and such.   But overlooking the “small things” can have a huge negative impact on your big vision. We call the “small things” micro-conversion. They are critical parts of your pre-macro converting process. What is micro-conversions? A micro conversion refers to a user activity that leads them to the target conversion (purchasing). For instance, if you have an E-commerce Business Website that sells premium outdoor furniture, you may wish for a visitor hitting the “add to cart” and open their wallet immediately after landing. But, you know in reality, it doesn’t work like that. In most cases, they will probably watch your demo videos, filter by prices, read reviews and your blog first. These actions seem not contributive to sales directly, but they guide a user through a few actions that lead up to the major conversion. In short, the big conversion co...

Mobile Marketing: Some App Store Optimization Tips

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App Store Optimization , or ASO, is a way of ensuring your app meets app store ranking criteria and rises to the top of search result page. It also improves an app’s overall and category ranking by boosting app download and conversion rates. Due to this similarity with the search engine optimization (SEO), Mobile App Store Development is also referred as APP store SEO, App search optimization, or Mobile App SEO. To help you boost your app marketing strategy (along with your app store ranking!), here is list of some ASO tips, many of which have their roots in well-known SEO strategies marketers know and love. 1. Keywords are your foundation: Just like the SEO, keywords are foundation for getting app found in various app store. Start with the keyword in app title and choose it wisely. One big change to the Apple App Store was limiting the character count from 255 to 50 characters. This means tightening your word choice, idea is to find the correct balance between the app’s n...

Why Does The Site Need an SSL Certification?

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Security should always be a high concern for your website, but do you need an SSL certificate? A secure Sockets layer (SSL) is the process of protecting the data which travels around the internet, so prevent hackers and bots from accessing sensitive information online. Private information like credit card details goes through the different servers and this is where the proper network security and encryption is needed to prevent the hackers from intercepting data. The rule of thumb is that you are responsible for protecting your business and client’s private and sensitive information like financial records, password log-ins, identify numbers, credit card details. How SSL work: In the same way that we use to lock and unlock doors, SSL certificate use keys to validate and protect the sensitive information. The certificate signing request or CSR must also be created on the server. This creates a pair of public and private keys. The public key is used to encrypt the sensit...

How To Integrate Social Media Into Website Design

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Social media is taking both inbound and outbound marketing by storm. It didn’t take very long for businesses to realize how powerful social media is in gaining brand awareness, building up subscribers and moving people through the sales funnel. While social media is being actively used by businesses and marketers, one challenge facing everyone in the playground is that not everyone is yielding the same results. To hack a path through the clutter, you need to come up with a solid social media strategy, and one aspect you need to take seriously is the web design. Thus, in this article, we will take a look at some easy-to-implement ways to integrate social media into your web design. 1.       Almost every website features social media icons on the homepage(or all pages) as a presence of being a social media “rustler”. With a click of any icon, a visitor will be directed to the social media page. For this strategy to work for you, you must make sure that ...