In the world of online payment systems, the two mighty behemoths are PayPal vs Skrill. Everyone else is a dwarf by comparison, and dwell around the fringes of online payments, and yes that even includes the likes of Payoneer and Authorize.Net (and BitCoin isn't even on the radar for the vast majority of merchants right now).
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As you set about doing business on the Web, you're going to encounter three specific types of people:
• Those who want to buy from you
• Those who want to steal from you
• Those who want to steal from those who buy from you
The paradox that every website owner faces is that you want to welcome the first type of person with open arms, but the others you'll want to try to shut out. In a traditional offline store, it's usually easy to sense where trouble is going to come from. Doing business online, however, means you lose that all important intuition.
The average internet user has five social media accounts.
That's not even including businesses. Strangely enough, I would guess that most individuals have more social accounts than businesses do.
You'd think it would be the other way around, considering most people don't have much to promote on social media, whereas businesses should all be on places like Facebook and Twitter. We're not saying that you have to get on every network out there, but it's much easier when you have a tool to go about doing so.
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There is an idea that if you want to be a success in an online business then the way to go is to head for the luxury market. The luxury market is a profitable sector, trading on its exclusivity to deliver quality products and services to a discerning few rather than the undiscerning multitude. But how do you position a luxury brand for ecommerce?
One of the most important parts of a website is without a doubt the photos that are being used on the website. Images are important if you want social sharing, visitors, ‘likes’ and center stage in the virtual world. A website with images of a poor quality is doomed to get fewer visitors and conversions than a website with stunning images. If you are worried that finding amazing images for your website might seem like a time consuming chore, then fear not, there are tons of tools to help you fix this aspect too and here are my favorite 40 such sites:
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Google Shopping is one of the first items you see when searching for just about any type of product through the popular search engine.
It's consolidated, clean and useful for people who would like to find deals from all over the internet on a single product.
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Ecommerce SEO is still relying mainly on link building, the key to your search engine marketing success.
Sure, things have changed in the past, considering you can't just swap links with other websites or litter poor quality sites with links back to your website.
And these are good things, because Google has made it clear that they are only interested in highlighting sites that use legitimate link building strategies.
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Is your online business scaling up?
Are you ready to take it to the big time and truly embrace an ecommerce platform that caters to all of your individual business needs?
Enter SIDE Commerce: A brilliant platform made for the juggernaut online stores of the world (or those that wish to eventually get to that point.)
