What Sells On The Internet?

Written by Elizabeth McGee


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Anyone can experience healthy sales for any product sold online by following some ofrepparttar guidelines that make sales a success. Ease of shopping. You have to make it easy forrepparttar 118604 online shopper. Your site has to be set up so thatrepparttar 118605 shopping experience and checkout aren't frustrating. If you've ever bought anything overrepparttar 118606 internet think about what it is you liked or didn't like aboutrepparttar 118607 experience. Certainly don't offer what you didn't like and make what you did like even better. Clear information and quality pictures or photos. Always provide as much information about your products as possible and always post a clear picture or photo. Ifrepparttar 118608 photo isn't of good quality then your viewer won't consider you a quality site. Get them as close to touching, feeling and smellingrepparttar 118609 product as possible.

Fast or free delivery. Provide shipping information to your viewers somewhere on your site. Don't force them to placerepparttar 118610 order to find out how much shipping is. Be upfront aboutrepparttar 118611 costs. If you offer free shipping, post that as an advantage on your front page. Recent reports show that free delivery isrepparttar 118612 third most important factor in attracting repeat customers. The first two were online security and price.

Always include an 'About' page. Your about page should have your business name, address and a phone number. What sometimes tipsrepparttar 118613 scales in your favor isrepparttar 118614 ability for people to find out who you are and where your are. They need to feel they are dealing with someone honest and genuine. They want to know that they can contact you if necessary.

Provide security shopping Use secure servers for ordering and post your security measures plainly.

Offer competitive pricing. Do your research and offer pricing that will appeal to your buyers. If your price is higher than your competitors explain why and what features or quality measures justify your prices.

Elizabeth McGee has spent 20 years in the service and support industry. She has moved her expertise to the world wide web helping businesses find trusted tools, enhance customer service, build confidence and increase sales. You can contact Elizabeth at mail@pro-marketing-online.com or visit her website at http://www.pro-marketing-online.com


Web Statistics

Written by Clare Lawrence


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Which pages on your site are getting visitors and which are not?

Which search engines are bringing in traffic?

What key-phrases are being used?

By carefully monitoring these results, you can experiment with promotional campaigns, monitorrepparttar results and hopefully refine your campaigns.

Its much harder to benchmark your site against rival sites, but there are a number of sites that can give you an approximate idea of other sites traffic such as Alexa, www.alexa.com

Alex usesrepparttar 118603 activity of 100,000’s of users toolbars to record visits and shares this information on its website.

If your sites not showing up on Alexa, then use their add url feature http://pages.alexa.com/help/webmasters/



Clare Lawrence is CEO of Discount Domains Ltd – A leading UK provider of Domain name registration and Web Hosting services. Please feel free to re-publish this article provided this reference box remains together with a hyperlink to http://www.discountdomainsuk.com Clare can also be contacted on clare@discountdomainsuk.com


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