What is your best tip about selling online?</h1> <article> <h1>What is your best tip about selling online?</h1> <p>Joe Madden — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:27:55 GMT</p> <p>Hi Everyone,</p> <p>I love the site and have been doing a lot of research on here to help start my own e-commerce site. In general though I was wondering what was the biggest thing that you would definitely not do again if you had to start your site from scratch.</p> <p>TIA and I am looking forward to what this sites members have to say.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div> </article> <article> <h1>Recent Ebay changes - can anyone explain them?</h1> <p>Julie Smith — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:59:01 GMT</p> <p> I am a very small seller on Ebay, but I was about to put up a bunch of items for sale.</p> <p>In the past I have pretty much sold everything I've listed on the first time I listed it. I'm hearing that Ebay changed its pricing policy so now the listing fee is lower but the percentage they take on sales is higher. On face value this sounds good, but I also hear they are cooking up deals with companies like buy.com, and giving them no listing fees. So buy.com, with appparently 50k listings per month, and others like them can drown out paid listings from small sellers like me. </p> <p>I look at the Ebay forums and see people talking about really low STRs (sell through rates, I think it means - like if I put up 100 items and only 20 sell).</p> <p>Sooo wondering if it would be better to get my own online store and stop the Ebay business - or do both.</p> <p>What do you think?</p> <p>Jullie</p> <p> </p><div style="clear:both;"></div> </article> <article> <h1>boost in online sales business or MLM or franchise business</h1> <p>shubhranshu agarwal — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:22:47 GMT</p> <p>It is being claimed by the experts that economic crisis is over and we are seeing the results also with increased recruitment activities and recalls to ex employees. How much boost in online sales business or MLM or franchise business in you expect in the next couple of months?</p><div style="clear:both;"></div> </article> <article> <h1>Economical Shipping?</h1> <p>Ben Marascalco — Mon, 18 May 2009 17:53:15 GMT</p> <p>Hi All!</p> <p>I was hoping to hear about shipping solutions that others have found to ship thier online sales.</p> <p>I am an author and ship my books, usually in small lots weighing between 3 and 5 pounds per.</p> <p>I am dazed by all of the options out there and just wish I could find someone who could point and say THAT is the cheapest way to do it.</p> <p>Thank You,</p> <p>Benny</p><div style="clear:both;"></div> </article> <article> <h1>Selling online</h1> <p>Adam gilly — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 09:58:11 GMT</p> <p>Set up an online store. Check out major search engines shopping for turnkey solutions to building an online store for a monthly fee. The bonus is that you tap into the heavy traffic of these popular sites and take advantage of their search engines.<br />------------<br /><br />Adam</p> <p> </p><div style="clear:both;"></div> </article> <article> <h1>Introduction</h1> <p>Alanda White — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 13:20:49 GMT</p> <p> Hello to all my name is Alanda White and I am a new member to this website. I am a Referring Travel Agent with a small home based business called Traveling Sensation. I joined this website as a way to network and generate business since word of mouth is my only form of advertisement. I really would like to learn all of the in's and out's of being a business woman and networking. I am currently a graduate student and my two children attempt to assist me in any and all of my endeavures. My business offers everything from flowers, concert/theater tickets, car rentals, limos, vacations, luxury deluxe cruises, resorts, excursions, golfing and hunting packages, honeymoon and wedding accommodations, etc. There is absolutely something for everyone available on my website. Please don't hesitate to contact me if I can arrange accommodations for you and your party. </p><div style="clear:both;"></div> </article> <article> <h1>Minimizing Customer Frustration at Checkout</h1> <p>John Bracamontes — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 02:20:07 GMT</p> <p>A good thing to think about is what a user has to do in order to checkout. Is your checkout process 10 steps long, are you asking for intrusive and unecessary information, is the language used misleading? These are all important things to think about when setting up your checkout process.</p> <p>It may be a good idea to limit your checkout to be about 1 - 4 steps, this has been proven to decrease cart abandonment.</p> <p>Another good idea is to only ask for the information you truly need ( do you really need their date of birth or gender? )</p> <p>A good tip is to not force the user to sign up an account to purchase, this brings frustration to a customer and may lead to an abandonment. You can have them checkout as a guest, use paypal, google checkout or you can make their checkout process in sync with signing up an account so it is less invasive.</p> <p>It is also extremely important to use concise wording, use continue and confirm for buttons instead of long phrases like "continue to step 3"</p> <p>Make sure that the last page a customer sees and states for them to confirm the purchase make sure they actually confirmed it on the previous page, the confirmation page is just to show what they have just purchased. Studies have shown that when users see a page like this they assume that the item has been purchased and will abandon the cart.</p> <p> </p> <p>Feel free to add to this post because there are many more great ideas and you can go so deep into checkout theory ( eye tracking, language, process, etc...)</p> <p> </p><div style="clear:both;"></div> </article> </main></body></html>