Grow :  Boosting Your Online Business

If you have a successful brick-and-mortar business and are looking to broaden your customer base, you may have considered adding an internet shopping store. An online presence will not only help you reach new customers, it can also help you serve existing customers in a convenient, time-saving way. Your customers will thank you for giving them a choice...

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Increasing your Web site visibility on the Internet helps drive more traffic to your business, prompts more inquiries for your goods and services, increases leads, and potentially generates more sales.To understand search engine marketing, you first need to understand how things once worked with the traditional Yellow Pages®. For years, people turned...

As part of its move toward selling its product exclusively online, Fort Worth, Texas-based Bice's Florist has begun buying a number of flower-related domain names and redirecting the traffic from those domains to its Web site. So far, the company has purchased 35 to 40 domains with names such as FlowerNut.com, eflowersite.com, and nationalfloraldelivery...

What information do you collect about your customers? You probably obtain a good deal each time someone is making a purchase; name, phone number, physical and email addresses, etc. While this is important, what many forget about are the visitors that don't buy anything. If you are doing well, you might be converting 5% of sessions into sales in...

In the world of e-commerce, you have many options for accepting payment from your customers. Which is the best method for selling online? Let's compare some popular payment types. Credit Cards Accepting credit card payments is important for any e-commerce site. If you are selling retail, you will not be able to successfully avoid accepting credit cards...

Here are some tips to get you started: Post contact information The following information should be posted to the website in an intuitive location: A corporate address Product return address An e-mail address A toll-free number Hire knowledgeable people to take phone calls Consumers shopping online have the same number of questions as regular retail...

A consideration you must face in setting up your e-commerce store is your shipping policy. Will you ship products to an address other than the credit card billing address? While this may sound like an easy yes or no decision, the implications can be greater than you might expect when you run an online shopping cart. Shipping to the non-billing address...

Ensuring the security and privacy of your E-commerce customers doing business with you online is essential to establishing customer confidence and trust. That confidence and trust is established through securing communication between your customer's Web browser and your site, generally by way of an SSL Certificate. What is an SSL Certificate?A Secure...

Q: What is an Extended Validation SSL Certificate? A: Extended Validation (EV) is the newest level of high-assurance security authentication for SSL Certificates. It was introduced in early 2007 and it takes advantage of advanced features in next-generation browsers such as Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7. EV also benefits from being the first truly...