Every business owner wants shoppers to come to their website and buy something. Once they’ve done that, how do you keep them coming back? Amit Mathradas, the general manager and head of North American small business at PayPal, tells us about some e-commerce quick fixes to improve the customer experience. Click below to watch the…Click to read more >
Google Business Listings – How to Use Them to Promote Your Shops Local Events and Classes
Let’s start with the basics. You might be asking yourself what exactly is a Google Business Listing? Go to Google, search for your business and you’ll see a list of search results. The box to the right that has more information — that is your Google Business Listing. Claim your business If you haven’t claimed…Click to read more >
Shopper Psychology at eCommerce Checkout [Infographic]
This brilliant infographic put together by the VoucherCloud team sheds some light on key statistics and habits behind shoppers clicks throughout the eCommerce sales funnel. Key stats to bear in mind are: Site Speed Site speed: slow websites that load 3 second or more account for 57% cart abandonment 80% of shoppers that abandon their…Click to read more >
How to Create the Perfect Checkout Page [Infographic]
by Susannah Morris at Hubspot.com | September 15, 2015 68% of all ecommerce visitors abandon their shopping carts – leaving $4 trillion of abandoned merchandize behind. But don’t despair – according to BI Intelligence, roughly 2.5 trillion (or 63%) of this is potentially recoverable. The top three reasons that people gave for abandoning their carts…Click to read more >
9 Simple Ways To Optimize Your Blog Post To Get Found By Google
by Brandon Schaefer July 25, 2015 Getting your article found by google is really not that difficult… that is… if you know what to do, and how to do it. Like I always share… if you stick to the basics and the core foundations… you’ll always end up in good shape. Optimize Your Blog Post So……Click to read more >
5 Tips for Maximizing Your Search Engine Optimization
As a website owner, you understand that your goal is to maximize the amount of qualified traffic to your website. Although referrals and word-of-mouth can be great sources for customers, the real Holy Grail of the Internet is Search Listings (Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc.). Through some effort, you can get your site in front of…Click to read more >
Understanding Search Algorithms and How They Impact Your Website
In SEO we often refer to a search engine’s algorithm. But, what is an algorithm and how does it impact your website? By definition, it is a step-by-step procedure to determine a calculation. It’s a formula. Search engines use a formula to rank websites based, in part, on particular keywords or phrases. Search engines have…Click to read more >
Introduction to Paid Search
My previous articles have all discussed organic search optimization of your website. I thought we should start to explore the paid side of search. So, what is the difference between organic and paid search? Organic and paid search listings both appear on the same page of the search engine, and can originate from the same…Click to read more >
Increasing Traffic to Your Website
In previous articles, I’ve talked about how to improve your website so people will want to stay awhile and shop; we’ve covered website merchandising, cross merchandising, social merchandising, creating value, and how to manage your reputation so your customers will return again and again. Let’s back up a bit now and think about what we…Click to read more >
Business Building with Blog Tours
If you’ve ventured into the quilting blogosphere, you’ve probably come across the occasional blog tour. Blog tours come in many different forms, but essentially they are a series of posts scheduled on different blogs within a short time period designed to promote something. The most common blog tours are for book releases, as publishers and…Click to read more >