eCommerce Blog: "How To Sell Online"


How To Avoid Online Shopping Scams

You probably think you know the score when it comes to online shopping, but you have to remember that scammers are usually one step ahead. They come up with something new every time their latest schemes get blown wide open. You have to be vigilant whenever you're checking out a tempting offer or clicking an intriguing pop-up.

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How to Funnel Traffic on Your E-Commerce Site

Many of your average everyday keyboard warriors may think of their internet browsing as a rather aimless process. Creative web design experts know better. Ecommerce site traffic is meant to flow in a very specific direction: down the sales funnel.  Yet it doesn't happen on its own. You have to design your ecommerce site in an intuitive way so that visitors will have clearly defined pathways to navigate toward a conversion for your business. These pathways, or the intended...

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How to Draw Influential Fans to Your Ecommerce Site

Every ecommerce site can profit from the advocacy of an influential voice in a given niche. In fact, if you put some effort into rallying influential members of a niche community to your cause, it can greatly benefit your bottom line. Today I'll explain why you, as an ecommerce site owner, should engage with influencers, and the best strategies to do so.

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4 Tips for Selecting the Ideal Mobile Payment Service Provider

The following is a guest blog post from Debbie Allen. Debbie Allen is an online marketer and professional writer who writes about a wide range of topics, including everything from health and wellness issues to online reputation management and marketing strategies. You need a mobile payment service if you want to step things up and take your business to a new level. If you are a progressive and modern business owner, you know that in order to remain competitive, you have to keep...

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3 New Years Resolutions for Online Retailers

Don't have New Years resolutions? Don't expect this year to be better than the last! I know that New Year's resolutions can be corny and they don't always work out, but as a business owner, you always need to push forward by setting goals for yourself. Goals help you focus and they also help to measure your success, or see where you can improve.

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What to Sell in 2013

Looking for hot products to sell in 2013? Here’s a quick guide to some of the trends that experts are saying will take off next year. Sell these on eBay, another marketplace or your own website such as SaleHoo Store. Weight loss & fitness products This won’t just be unique to 2013 because at the beginning of every year, there is a massive surge of buyers purchasing diet and fitness equipment that will help them fulfil their clichéd New Year’s resolutions to...

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How to Find a Profitable Niche to Boost your Holiday Sales

Welcome to step one of our 5 Step Method for Mega Sales This Holiday Season. If you missed our intro to this series, check it out here. In this instalment of the 5 part series, I’ll show you how to find hot niche items that you can sell this holiday season and beyond! I’m also going to show you my very own list of 4 quick checks I run to test whether a product will be profitable to sell. I’ve never shared this formula before – it’s one I use in my own personal business ventures – so keep...

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SaleHoo Stores update, 19 June 2012

Hello all, As part of our development drive on Stores, we've released a few changes! In this update, the following has changed: Added: You can now change the password for your shared hosting email inbox (previously you could only set it once)  Added: A sitemap.xml and robots.txt file is now automatically generated for your site, at http://yourstore.com/sitemap.xml. This will automatically list all your products, categories and pages as soon as they are...

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Video Blog: More Profits with Pricing Psychology

We have an exciting new mini-series of video blogs coming your way! We have crafted this series of video blogs to give you a break from all the reading you do, and most importantly, give you some hot selling tips that will help to supercharge your business. Check out the fourth in the series here and remember to keep an eye out on the blog each week for the next instalment!  Join Online Selling Tactics Now  If you want a written version of the above video-blog... or just...

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Video Blog: The essential marketing tip that every business owner should know

We have an exciting new mini-series of video blogs that we have crafted to give you a break from all the reading you do, and most importantly, give you some hot selling tips that will help to supercharge your business. Check out the latest in the series here and remember to keep an eye out on the blog each week for the next instalment!  Get more proven selling tips when you become a member of Online Selling Tactics Get the written transcript of this video...

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