Creating an online store in 30 seconds is a tall task, and finding a solution that's actually good for beginners to scale up a business is not exactly as easy to locate as it may seem.
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LearningCart Review: A Complete eLearning Platform for 2024
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In today’s LearningCart review, I’m diving behind the scenes of a comprehensive ecommerce solution, designed specifically for online educators. LearningCart isn’t just a course building platform, or an ecommerce solution that allows you to sell training products.
It’s an all-in-one solution that combines learning management and content management software, with identity verification tools, payment processing, and even user authentication.
The platform has evolved significantly since I first reviewed it last year, and now boats more than 1 million users (with absolutely no instances of fraud or security issues).
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Cart66 Cloud Review: Everything You Need to Know
Ecommerce Reviews
Cart66 is different from other WordPress ecommerce options because, in addition to getting a plugin you also get a suite of hosted services. This means you get features that go beyond what you can do with a plugin alone. For example, Cart66 is the only WordPress ecommerce option that makes your site secure and PCI compliant so you don't even need your own SSL certificate. With Cart66, building and ecommerce site is just like building any other WordPress site because Cart66 handles all of the technical details for ecommerce security for you. Let's take a look at how it all works.
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PayPal vs Skrill (and why you probably need both)
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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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Top 4 Essentials of Ecommerce Security
Ecommerce Selling Advice
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.
Around.io Review: Everything You Need to Know
Ecommerce Reviews
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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Luxury branding for ecommerce: taking inspiration from the masters of high end business
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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?
The Ultimate IM Creator Review for 2024
Website Builder Reviews
The IMCreator website builder makes me stop and think. They claim that it's not your average drag and drop designer, so that's enough for me to dive in and figure out why it's so unique.
IMCreator delivers what it calls “Stripes,” but from the looks of it these are just creative names for templates.
However, the pricing is amazing for IMCreator, and the features seem to be the same, if not better, than options like Weebly and WIX.
