You can now easily track your store’s web stats with Google Analytics.
Follow these instructions to integrate Google Analytics into your your store.
Enjoy!
Tips for Creating an Online Store
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New Feature – Google Analytics Integrated!
Monday, December 17th, 2007How do I Create a Sitemap
Friday, December 14th, 2007A sitemap lets search engines find all your products and URLs better and faster.
Step 1: Login to your Flying Cart Store
Step 2: Navigate to the “Marketing” Tab and click on the “Advanced Tools” sub tab
Step 3: Click on the button “Generate Sitemap Now”
Step 4: You are all set, your sitemap has been submitted and the Search Engines Google, Yahoo, and Ask know about it.
4 Tips on Advertising your Domain Name
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007Funny blog to learn about Good URL’s and Bad URL’s: http://www.goodurlbadurl.com/
Here a few tips on advertising your domain name
1. Don’t use ALL CAPS. For example COOLESTANDBESTDOMAINEVER.COM hurts the eyes
2. Don’t adverstise a super long link in a newspaper or magazine. For example MyStore.com/shoes/boots/laces/blue.html chances are people are less likely to remember and type in the entire URL. Posting a long link on the web is a different story.
3. The Domain lets you know what the entire store is about is HUGE. For example BagsRUs tells you exactly what their store is about in their domain.
4. If you use multiple words in your domain upper case the first letter in each word like: TimelessFavors.com
Get your products on Stylehive.com
Monday, September 17th, 2007
Do you have a hot product that you want people to know about? Get one of the top posters on stylehive.com to bookmark it, and get ready for some free marketing. StyleHive is a social networking site where users can bookmark and rate products that they find online. Then other users and visitors can track and buy what their favorite trendsetters like.
Want to check it out for yourself?
- Go to Stylehive.com
- Click on People at the top to see the top trendsetting users
- Click on a person to see his/her favorite products
- Some users list their email address. Send them to your Flying Cart store to look at a product that you think he/she might like to bookmark.
selling handmade crafts
Monday, September 17th, 2007Getting a Flying Cart store is a great way to sell handmade arts and crafts. If you want to get a worldwide online audience for your stuff and don’t want to pay a big price for an ecommerce website, Flying Cart could be just the thing you need.
I have developed websites for lots of artists, and I know that most of them have little to no budget. This is so often the case that I have done many jobs in trade for art. Most artists I know want a way to get their stuff seen, and they want it cheap with no initial investment required. I hope more artists will catch on to Flying Cart and how useful it can be as a marketing tool.
Right now, some of my favorite crafty sites are: TJ’s Kreations and Babylicious Design
Batman Bottlecaps at TJ’s Kreations
Top Benefits of Selling Online
Friday, June 8th, 20071. Low setup + operational costs. You don’t need to pay shop assistants or rent any space.
2. Reducing order related processing costs, customer orders will come automatically come straight into your e-mail.
3. Reach a large audience, where your products can be seen across the world.
4. Be open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
5. Receive payment quickly from online transactions.
6. Improving your offerings using the data gathered by tracking customer purchases.
7. Use your online shop as an online catalog.
I love pictures
Sunday, May 13th, 2007Let your pictures do the selling!
Flying Cart supports 3 Types of File Formats for your sweet product pictures
(1) .JPG/.JPEG: Supports 16 million file formats. More Info
(2) .PNG: Portable Network Graphics format is a completely loss-less compression. More Info
(3) .GIF: The format uses a palette of up to 256 distinct colors from the 24-bit RGB color space. More Info
Want a HOT SEARCHABLE PRODUCT?
Tuesday, April 24th, 2007The best way to name your products and figure out what you should write in your descriptions is finding out how many people are actually searching for a specific keyword.
1. Go to http://inventory.overture.com/
2. Search for your product keywords
3. Add those keywords to your product descriptions, product name, about sections, etc.
NOTE: you want to make sure that someone is searching for it. But you also want to make sure a gazillion people are also NOT searching for it. You want to cater to a unique niche audience.
Mother’s Day Specials
Thursday, April 19th, 2007There are a few key occasions that merit gift giving every year. From Valentine’s Day to birthdays, presents are always in demand. With the month of April drawing to a close, gift givers must prepare for another “fast approaching” special occasion, Mother’s Day.
According to an article on E-commerce News, “Online shopping for mothers will see an increase of 20 percent.”
From flowers to clothing, internet business will most likely see a rise in site traffic.