There is no Minor League in business.
A cruel truth about business: different to the world of sports there is no fairness.
If you start a company in your garage - you don’t compete with all the garage companies in the town or the country…
From the first day on you swim with the sharks.
All unicorns, Fortune500 enterprises, old money, the syndicates and undercover organizations, … - they all operate right next to you.
Most of the times you might get away by being overlooked. But once in while you might find yourself eye to eye…
How to still have a chance:
don’t panic.
find your niche and exploit it.
understand your customer better than anyone else.
be fast and really good.
build a love band.
Understand staying in business as a form of success.
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Among many different ways to monetize your website or blog, affiliate marketing is one of the most popular one. What is affiliate marketing and how does it work? To put it simply, you will sell or recommend a product or service through your website or blog. You also put the link that will bring people directly to the place where the product or services were selling. When website visitors click on your affiliate links and then make purchase, you will receive commission. How much money or commission that you will receive ?How much money or commission that you will receive is highly depending on the seller. It range from 30% to 70% of the product price depend on the seller itself. This program is very popular because it offers people the chance to get more money by doing things they love (in this case writing something on their blog or website). Amazon is one of the most popular websites that offer affiliate program to everyone. People can join the program in Amazon for free and then promote the product that was on sale in Amazon in their website or blog. This day, many similar website such as Amazon also offer people the affiliate program that people can use for their own benefit. For those who want to join this program to get more money from their website should consider several things: 1. First of all, it will be better if they already have well established website or blog with lots of visitor.It means they only need to persuade the visitor of their website to make purchase on the product or service they promote. Getting lots of visitor takes time and effort, so it will be better for people to work on the number of visitor before they start to join any affiliate program. 2. Besides getting enough visitors to increase the chance of them to click on your affiliate links, another trouble that you have to deal with is setting up the account on each affiliate marketing program out there.It can be time consuming and if you sign up for too many programs, you could lose count and lose your chance. You can join a site that will help you to join different kind of affiliate program with just one account. Sites like Viglink and Skimlink will do well for this purpose although there are other similar sites that you can use. If you are really serious on getting some money from the internet, then you should consider joining affiliate program; if you’re not ready, you can use other alternative to get money from the internet.
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There’s a phrase that’s often used in upper management: “Don’t talk about it, be about it.” Good ideas are worthless. Your ability to execute them will bring value. This is true no matter how much capital you have to invest into your business.
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In older posts, we learned about how widespread e-commerce has become. On a global scale, it is safe to say that you can find an e-commerce startup virtually all over the world. This scary fact comes with its merits and demerits. First of all, this means that more people will be prone to patronize online stores, which translates to a wider range of potential customers for you. However, on the negative side, it then becomes fairly easy for upcoming e-commerce businesses to get stuck in the sheep zone; copying those that have gone before them and making the same mistakes.
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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.
Cliff Ecommerce who is Official Shopify partner and a trusted brand working with many sellers is committed to provide best services as per current Ecommerce trends. We are not only making sure that your website is following all the norms but our long term association confirms that your store generates ample revenues at all times.
Please contact us for more details and lets make your Online Store Profitable!
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When it comes to running an online business, it is important that you have visibility into the performance of your site, particularly how your customers interact with your site. Luckily, there is a free tool out there called Google Analytics that will help you do this. Below is the purpose of Google Analytics, as well as some of the key features and capabilities.
Understand Your Audience
Sell and Convert
Make Business Decisions
Know Your Audience
Audience Data and Reporting - This feature allows you to dissect your audience: the kinds of people they are, where they come from, how they find your content, and how loyal and engaged they are.
Advanced Segments - This feature allows you to isolate and analyze subsets of your traffic, like organic traffic or visits that led to transactions.
Filters - This feature allows you to limit and modify the traffic data that appears in any given report view (Ex: You can exclude traffic from certain domains).
Trace the Customer Path
Traffic Sources - This feature allows you to evaluate the effectiveness of your referring sites, direct traffic, social media platforms, organic (unpaid) search keywords, and custom campaigns.
Map Overlay - This feature allows you to see your visitor stats broken down by continent, country and city, which will help you understand the real origins of your traffic and find the best places to invest for new opportunities.
See What Your Audience Is Doing
Behavior Reporting - This feature allows you to see new vs. returning visitors, how frequent visitors come to your site, how long visitors are staying on your site, etc.
Flow Visualization - This feature lets you see and analyze the path a visitor takes on your site. See where they came from, the pages they moved through, and where they exited your site.
In-Page Analytics - This feature allows to see how users really interact with your pages (Ex: see where are users clicking the most on your homepage).
Reach Your Performance Goals
Ecommerce Reporting - This feature allows you too see the performance of your products. Trace transactions right down to specific keywords, understand shopper behaviors, and adjust your shopping cart to build loyalty and improve sales.
Goals - This feature allows you to measure your sales, downloads, email signups, conversions, or define your own business goals.
Reach Peak Capacity
Real-Time Reporting - This feature allows you to see how many people are on your site right now, where they came from, and what they’re viewing.
Alerts and Intelligence Reports - This feature will call attention to any abnormal behavior happening on your site (Ex: A huge spike in traffic coming from a particular city or traffic source).
Site Search - When visitors can’t find what they want on your site, they search. This feature allows you to see what your visitors are really looking for, spot missed opportunities, and speed up time to conversion.
Site-Speed Analysis - This feature shows you load times across your site, so you can fix slow pages and make your visitors happier.
Make Business Decisions
Based on the information in Google Analytics, you will be able to make educated decisions regarding the following:
Product success and determination
How to better target and sell to your customers
Marketing and advertising strategies
Improved website design
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