E-Commerce Articles

Business » E-Commerce | By James Lowe @ Thursday, 28th June 2007 @ 10:27 AM

The first rule of online business development to remember when you are searching for a business idea is to pick the one that works personally for you. Even if you already have a business and are considering adding an online presence to it. Your personal niche picture based on your own life experience and training. Often times the best small business development idea you can come up with is one that you will have fun doing. That is personal and clearly you. Where we get a bit conf... more...

Business » E-Commerce | By Ivanovich Cuxev @ Thursday, 28th June 2007 @ 9:42 AM

Entry into the world of e-commerce requires that the site owner has there components planned: - Products to sell - Content to advertise the products - A site host that will run scripts These are essential before the site is set up. The first two offer direction to the web site, and give the tone for the whole project. The last one is the mechanism by which the e-commerce site will be set up. It will be used to store the content, and the framework, which serves the content, an... more...

Business » E-Commerce | By Michael Copper @ Tuesday, 26th June 2007 @ 12:46 AM

If you have a website that sells more than one product or service, you will need a shopping cart. A shopping cart allows the consumer to select as many items as they wish to buy and then pay for everything at once. If you only have a Buy Now button for each of your products, your customers will have to go through the payment process for each and every product they wish to purchase and you can lose a lot of sales this way. However, having a shopping cart installed on your website can actu... more...

Business » E-Commerce | By Sandra Noble @ Thursday, 21st June 2007 @ 6:34 PM

I got training in SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system years ago when it was on a mainframe platform - version R/2. At that time the Germans who came to the US to teach, emphasized that the name was "S, A, P". They were aware of the negative connotations of the word sap in the United States. The Players The letters S, A, P stand for some German words. At this point, knowing what those letters mean, is as irrelevant as knowing what IBM stands for. (By the way, I just l... more...

Business » E-Commerce | By Amy Nutt @ Wednesday, 20th June 2007 @ 2:55 AM

The more retailers have to compete for your business, the better deals you will be able to get. If you have ever taken an Economics course, you know about the law of supply and demand. As more and more businesses open up, yet the number of potential customers stays the same, those businesses that want to be successful realize that they have to compete to win business. Smart retailers will do whatever it takes not only to get your business, but also to keep it. That is why customer loya... more...

Business » E-Commerce | By Michael Copper @ Wednesday, 20th June 2007 @ 12:43 AM

When you are first starting out in ecommerce, it can be confusing, trying to choose a host for your website. There are so many options out there, and such varying prices, anywhere from free to hundreds of dollars per year, that it can be downright hard to pick the right one. If you know what you are looking for, you can narrow your search down rapidly and make the best choice for you and your business. This article will cover the basics that you need to keep in mind in order to make the best dec... more...

Business » E-Commerce | By Gowri Cumba @ Tuesday, 19th June 2007 @ 11:33 AM

As an infopreneur, always remember you are dealing with people. And people have emotions. These emotions are powerful drivers, governing almost all decisions they make - including buying decisions. To be a successful infopreneur, your information must appeal to any one (or better still, more than one) of these very important emotions: * Fear * Greed * Vanity * Lust * Pride * Envy * Laziness These are powerful emotions. Yes, they are 'negative... more...

Business » E-Commerce | By Ron McNeil @ Monday, 18th June 2007 @ 10:10 PM

Make your social network earn money for you. Choose the right social network software to design your website, and provide the right kind of services to retain the users, helping them to invite their friends, in an attempt to build up large communities and groups. Provide them with enough opportunity to spend more and more time on your website, and slowly create that customer loyalty which is so very important in running a social networking website. The longer that the user remains on your websit... more...

Business » E-Commerce | By Gowri Cumba @ Monday, 18th June 2007 @ 4:32 PM

Niche research and brainstorming are the two top skills every Internet infopreneur needs. And it is surprising how often you often ignore your own knowledge and expertise - or are completely unaware of it! In every niche market brainstorming session, I ask a group of clients, friends, or subscribers to take out a sheet of paper and make a list of valuable things they know... things that others will pay them to learn. 9 times out of ten, the answer is almost instant. "Bu... more...

Business » E-Commerce | By Eble Chen @ Friday, 15th June 2007 @ 12:16 PM

On one side, eBay tries to befriend the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of India, by offering few products for curbing the practices of cyber crimes culprits, for free. On the other hand, eBay maintains the challenge by pulling off all its advertisements from the Google's US search engine, as Google Inc., has decided to organize party for the sellers and buyers of eBay. At last, the bubbling pressures between Google and eBay have finally come out in public. On the other han... more...

Business » E-Commerce | By Amy Nutt @ Friday, 15th June 2007 @ 12:01 PM

Who doesn't love a bargain? In the increasingly competitive business environment, many retailers are really going the extra mile to make sure that customers keep coming back. Many supermarkets have implemented customer rewards programs that allow customers to enjoy special discounts on individual purchases and award prizes or additional discounts for repeat shopping. Take the supermarket industry, for example. Many major supermarket chains have customer rewards programs, which are... more...

Business » E-Commerce | By Gowri Cumba @ Tuesday, 12th June 2007 @ 12:17 AM

Whenever I talk to people about becoming an Internet infopreneur, I hear two objections - from different sections of the audience. One group says, "Oh, the time's not yet ripe for this sort of thing" And the other says, "But, isn't it already too late?" The fact is, there is no 'perfect' time to start being an infopreneur. Let's face it. There's nothing new about compiling data into information. And there's nothing ... more...

Business » E-Commerce | By Obinna Heche @ Monday, 11th June 2007 @ 2:15 PM

Remember, when you have a home business, what you have for your inventory is going to be something that you want to focus on, something that you can use as your selling point. It is often hard to decide which products you are going to want to sell and sometimes this choice needs to be made very quickly so that your business can continue to succeed and so that you will find yourself in a position where you can make money and have your home business be a success. Steps To Follow Whe... more...

Business » E-Commerce | By Rebecca Prescott @ Saturday, 9th June 2007 @ 7:45 AM

If you're thinking of setting up a home business, the term 'ecommerce' may seem intimidating. Perhaps it conjures up images of Wall Street, company floats, and the excesses of the dot com bubble. Fortunately for prospective small business owners, the dot com bubble burst, and with it the myth that you need to be a large company with deep pockets to profit from ecommerce. Last year, it is estimated around $170 billion was spent online (Credit Suisse). And this figure is only... more...

Business » E-Commerce | By Jason Tarasi @ Tuesday, 5th June 2007 @ 12:08 PM

Does the thought of marketing online intimidate you and make you cringe? If so, rest assured you're not alone in the hysteria. I've met many business people who are well-educated and extremely experienced in marketing who second guess their ability to effectively market their business on the Internet. Honestly, Internet marketing is a whole new ballgame. Moving from traditional marketing to online marketing is a lot like going through rehabilitation and learning to walk aga... more...

Business » E-Commerce | By Garland Choate @ Tuesday, 5th June 2007 @ 9:28 AM

You've likely heard of people who have become multimillionaires overnight by merchandising stuff on eBay. Well, I am not alleging that it never happens but I am alleging that it's only half true. There actually are several people who have made and continue to make fortunes by marketing stuff on eBay, nevertheless, not many of them did it overnight, if any. All, or at the least almost all, successful marketers on eBay share at the least one common trait - they all w... more...

Business » E-Commerce | By Eble Chen @ Monday, 4th June 2007 @ 9:48 AM

Many people are probably not aware of EBay listing promotions and know nothing about it. In short, EBay listing promotions are promotions held by eBay during which eBay sellers can list their items at discounted price. While it may sound like a good idea to list more items during this period of discount, there are more competitions during the same time since everyone want to take the advantage of cheap listing fees. Therefore, the question remains: how effectively is EBay listing promoti... more...

Business » E-Commerce | By Obinna Heche @ Monday, 4th June 2007 @ 9:31 AM

You do not really need a truckload of money to start your own home business. In fact, with just a few hundreds of dollars, you can start your own e store. The good thing about starting an e store is that you do not really need to keep lots of inventory. As long as you can deliver all your orders on time, nobody has to know that the item that you are selling is not yet in your possession. What is really important about setting up an e store is that you have a good site which is easy to navigate, ... more...

Business » E-Commerce | By Eble Chen @ Monday, 28th May 2007 @ 11:38 AM

For eBay starters, I am going to write about identifying the proper market for your products after you have decided the products to sell. Actually, it is very simple task. First, register with eBay for displaying and selling your product. Follow the simple instructions for registering at eBay. Are you wondering about the next step? It is even simpler. You would sell only the products that you are quite knowledgeable of. Come up with a list of ideas, importance, interesting subjects and t... more...

Business » E-Commerce | By Michael Copper @ Monday, 28th May 2007 @ 12:32 AM

Anyone can build an ecommerce site, but if you don't promote, chances are that no one will ever see it! Promotion is one of the key elements in a successful ecommerce business and one that many webmasters don't know how to do well. That's why you are reading this, to learn more about promotion techniques! The most obvious method of promoting your ecommerce site is through ads. There are many different types of ads and they have varying degrees of success. For example, ther... more...