The Internet is Great for Home Business

Written by Craig Osenbaugh


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2. Home business entrepreneurs do not have any overhead. The Internet home business does not haverepparttar expenses often associated with a traditional brick and mortar business. Most people who start an Internet businesses already have a computer and access torepparttar 108639 Internet.

3. Inventory is usually not needed. Dropshipping is very common among Internet retail businesses. This means thatrepparttar 108640 seller does not have to invest in inventory up front. Products are not ordered until they are sold and then they are sent directly fromrepparttar 108641 distributor torepparttar 108642 customer.

4. Pay for Performance Advertising and Promotion programs. Per per click marketing programs are great for home business because you don’t pay unless someone is clicking through to visit your website. Some ofrepparttar 108643 good pay per click companies include Google AdWords® and Overture®.

The Internet has openedrepparttar 108644 door for home business and work at home opportunties. There are many good opporunities to make money online with a variety of businesses. Anyone interested in starting a home business onrepparttar 108645 Internet should carefully evaluaterepparttar 108646 business idea or opportunity before jumping in head first. Once you findrepparttar 108647 right opportunity go for it and work hard and you may be well on your way to a succesful home business.

Craig Osenbaugh is a home business entrepreneur, webmaster, author and proud member of the PIPS community: http://www.GotPips.com


Successful Planning & Deployment of an E-commerce Portal

Written by Mitchell Dubin


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The Challenge The 5 key challenges of e-commerce always remainrepparttar same. The key elements of any successful ecommerce endeavor are:

Reaching new customers

How do people not only find your site but are encouraged to use it?

How to turn a browser into a buyer?

Increasing customer loyalty

What makes your offering (products and procurement process)repparttar 108638 best?

Do you reward loyalty? If so, how?

Does your customer have great experience visiting your ecommerce site?

Do they feel they have a sense of community with you and with their colleagues?

Do you communicate with your customers on their terms? When they want, how they want and on topics that interest them?

Increasing revenue per customer

Did your customer find what they were looking for?

Did you take advantage of opportunities to up-sell or cross-sell?

What are your capabilities for special promotions and offers?

Did you have them recommendrepparttar 108639 item to others?

Will they purchase more now, later, both?

Wasrepparttar 108640 purchasing experience simple and easy?

Did they shop or did they just procure?

Does your system encourage shopping behaviour?

Does your marketing campaigns target intelligently?

Are you usingrepparttar 108641 information you collect to its best marketing value?

Improve Service

What happens when a customer can’t findrepparttar 108642 item they’re looking for?

Do you have flexible processes that can deal with cancellations, changes easily and effectively?

Does your customer feel alone onrepparttar 108643 site or that you’re really trying to help them?

Do you offer enough flexibility in payment options?

Do you align with cultural and language requirements and contexts?

Improve Customer Communication

Does your customer communicate with you? Can they?

Is your communication personal, targeted, relevant and timely?

Does your customer communicate with other customers?

Do they share successes, ideas and comments?

When your customer needs to know, do you tell them right then?

Is your customer mobile and can you get them information where they are?

How OnX Responds to These Challenges Successful ecommerce is more than technology. It is about knowing how to applyrepparttar 108644 best practices, learnings and technologies to achieve optimal long term revenue and great customer satisfaction.

How OnX can help you reach new customers We knowrepparttar 108645 impact of best practice e-commerce and how you can leverage them. Did you know that a new visitor may only spend 13 seconds on your site if they don’t see something they are captivated by afterrepparttar 108646 first click? When a system presents information in context of whatrepparttar 108647 user is interested inrepparttar 108648 level of visitor interaction goes up exponentially. When these facilities are used, first time visitor time-on-page numbers jump from an average of 13 seconds to 13 minutes. We can help you modify key pages and use these methods to keep more users on your site and buying.

We can help you definerepparttar 108649 best policies for advertising and search compliance. We have intimate knowledge ofrepparttar 108650 intricacies and benefits of partnering with search providers like MSN.ca. We can help you drive new customers to your site, cost effectively.

We knowrepparttar 108651 best design practices that help turn browsers into buyers.

How OnX can help you increase customer loyalty Very simply, you need excellence in your ecommerce systems and processes to differentiate yourself. You can differentiate by offering:

Personalization Community Features A highly interactive site Tools that help your customers/agents both buy and sell

Reward loyalty by first understanding your customers. Who are loyal and why are they loyal and how do you extend and replicate that to others. This is only achievable with strong business intelligence built into your system.Use Online Analytical Processing inrepparttar 108652 selling and closing process to build in customer loyalty features that can do items such as: ·Discounts on volume ·Loyalty rewards and incentives Perhaps a “Special members’ area” will drive sales volume by creating special relationships with your top agents.We can show you how your customers can have a great experience when they visit your e-commerce site. The key elements of this include:An awesome , professional design A site that is easy, simple, extremely intuitive and FUN! A site that always worksrepparttar 108653 way you expect it to A site that is always available A site that is always Fresh, NEW and exciting We can show you how good content management facilities and processes can deliver this. To increase loyalty, onerepparttar 108654 best ways to do this is to create a sense of community with you and with their colleagues. We can show you how to build vibrant communities of sales agents and special interest groups to dramatically increase customer loyalty.

Director of Microsoft Solutions for OnX Enterprise Solutions


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