A friend of mine just sent me a link to ecommwire.com. Its a pretty cool site to publish a press release and get your word out there a little more. So if you are announcing a sale, have a really cool product coming out, doing something innovative with your site, or just have [...]
This weekend a store owner asked me if I knew of any good tools to make her product pictures look better. I did a little research and found Picnik!
Picnik is a really sweet tool for photo editing. It lets you do all the normal stuff like resize, crop, rotate, etc. [...]
Online customers need to have confidence in a store before they are willing to make a purchase. They need to feel confident that they are actually going to get what they order, and that you are a reputable business.
Here are some tips on how you can increase your customer confidence:
1. List your complete contact information, [...]
Ever wonder where your products would be most in demand? Google Trends shows you search volume on each city.
Based on Google Trends:
Persian Rugs are popular in New Zealand
Hair Bows are popular in Baton Rouge, LA
Soy Candles are really popular in the United States
Check out Charms By CJ’s. They have a cool product slide show on their homepage using a slide.com widget.
I was on the plane this weekend and I got bored with my book so I checked out the Sky Mall magazine. A lot of ok products until I came across this: tabletop photo studio! This could be great way to improve your picture quality. It retails for about $80 but [...]
BabyBumps.net is a local resource for Kansas City Mom’s.
This is how the very talented co-founder Andrea explained it to me:
“BabyBumps.net is the web’s round-the-clock spot for
expectant parents in the KC Metro Area, our readers are able to log on
anytime to locate the resources they need for their new baby… whether
it be a great doctor, birthing [...]
A lot of our fields are HTML friendly (product descriptions, text on the homepage, about section, etc.) You can really spice up the look and feel of your store by using HTML. Here is a great HTML Tutorial.
Recently I was very lucky on getting an interview with Matt Lerner, President and CEO of Chili Peppers Collectibles, LLC.
He currently has 2 stores: USA Coin Shop and Proof Sets Direct (and is actually working on his third store).
1) Why did you start an online business?
Starting an online business made sense for me in many [...]