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How To Make Your Online Ecommerce Store Profitable?

This question must be coming in mind of all the sellers who aim to sell online via their own store! Revenue generation via this medium is really puzzling for all those sellers who are busy in their core business and are not able to concentrate on the online platform techniques.

To get noticed in this saturated web environment is really tough hence the best approach to solve this riddle is to outsource it to expert professional companies who can take care entire operations. All entrepreneurs who wish to increase web traffic can use these small hacks while choosing their best partner in this arena.

1. Fast Loading Speed Make sure that your online store is operating on the highest bandwidth you can afford. The difference of few seconds can make your customer’s shopping experience fabulous.

2. On-Page SEO Expert On-page SEO services should be rendered with focus on target keywords that can give maximum conversions and visibility.

3. Responsive Design Mobile traffic is tremendously increasing hence nowadays its mandatory to have Responsive design that is compatible to all mobile devices.

4. Visible Contact Details Please make sure that your Contact information along with all Social Media Links is clearly visible and found easily.

5. Smooth Navigation Complex navigation among pages creates confusion and frustrations among your visitors hence make sure that all your page navigation are simple and easy.

6. Social Proof Visitors are confident to buy from a website that has many social evidences, testimonials and recommendations; hence make sure that these attestations are clearly visible.

7. Return/refunds Policy Clearly state return and refund policies making your customer feel at ease in all conditions.

8. Sales/Offers Section A great way to grab eyeballs is to highlight sales and offers section in your website, this definitely attracts visitors to look for current offers.

9. Multiple Payment Options Your website should have multiple payment options to deal with all kind of shoppers that compel them to trust your brand.

10. High Quality Product Images Make sure that you are providing multiple high quality product images from different angles to give deep understanding about your product.

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Please contact us for more details and lets make your Online Store Profitable!

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Cool concept. Keep your minds open and sharp !

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People and America are beautiful. Keep hope alive.

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i dont understand this at all and america scares the fuck out of me

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“I’ve got a new business…”

David Tennant and Catherine Tate playing the “I’ve got a new business…” game on the set of Nan’s Christmas Carol.

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Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science?

The long read: It is an industry like no other, with profit margins to rival Google – and it was created by one of Britain’s most notorious tycoons: Robert Maxwell

The core of Elsevier’s operation is in scientific journals, the weekly or monthly publications in which scientists share their results. Despite the narrow audience, scientific publishing is a remarkably big business. With total global revenues of more than £19bn, it weighs in somewhere between the recording and the film industries in size, but it is far more profitable. In 2010, Elsevier’s scientific publishing arm reported profits of £724m on just over £2bn in revenue. It was a 36% margin – higher than Apple, Google, or Amazon posted that year.

But Elsevier’s business model seemed a truly puzzling thing. In order to make money, a traditional publisher – say, a magazine – first has to cover a multitude of costs: it pays writers for the articles; it employs editors to commission, shape and check the articles; and it pays to distribute the finished product to subscribers and retailers. All of this is expensive, and successful magazines typically make profits of around 12-15%.

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Okay I understand artists charging more than mass producers for items. But your prices are a little high. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

I’ve said this a hundred times. Other artists have said this. People who aren’t even artists but care about others being able to support themselves from their work have said this. This is my job where I make my full time living. My prices are the way they are for a reason. And even if it weren’t my full time job I am performing a specialized skill producing luxury goods that takes time, money, and years to perfect. I deserve to be compensated for that work even if the money doesn’t go to basic survival necessities.

My products may be out of your price range, which is okay. That just means you aren’t my target market. But that doesn’t mean they are overpriced. And that doesn’t make it okay to walk around telling others what they should charge. There are a hundred resources on why artists price the way they do out there, please read the following and take some time to educate yourself:

- This is a “simple” forumla for pricing.  It does not include any specifics and simply includes “expenses” as a lump category.

- A more in depth guide to pricing.

- Here is a post from Magweno which does a good job of summing up all the “hidden” costs in crafting. It also includes a discussion on whether the perceived value of art should be taken into consideration. It doesn’t even take into account sales, self employment, or income taxes. 15% of my income alone goes to self employment tax. 15-30% (depending on how much I made that year) will go to income tax.

- If you want to spend some money to learn, there is an entire book on ethical pricing.

- Another blog post from Mill Girl who writes further on what goes into pricing, arts and crafts as a luxury item, what you support when you purchase handmade, and who/what you harm when you devalue handmade.

- A tumblr post which highlights the pitfalls of people who undervalue art and their negative impact on the entire art community. This includes both artists undervaluing themselves and clients undervaluing artists.

- Here’s an article on pricing as a freelancer and industry standards. For the record I consider myself under the category “Someone with a few years of experience and a good portfolio: $50 - $85+/hr.” I can promise I am charging nowhere near $50 an hour, and close to $25 since I supplement my income with “passive income” from pattern sales.

And that is just a few of the resources out there available. I sincerely hope you will read them and stop spreading negative attitudes on pricing.

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22 entrepreneurs share the advice that made them successful.

Is it creativity or is it necessity that is the mother of all invention? Either way these things are cool.

Just imagine a world full of beautiful stained glass windows which also generate electricity…

[Oxford Photovoltaics]