Business: 4 Things to Remember as a Newbie

4 Things to Remember as a Newbie

Written by Kaveh Fard

1. Differ wants from needs Once you are in repparttar

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beginning you might be overwhelmed by lots of sources that will tell you to get this and that, and maybe to upgrade a myriad of things that feels totally strange to you. Most of these upgrades and purchases, if not all, will probably be necessary eventually down repparttar 104088

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beginning there has to be some investments made. This is after all a business you are starting up. The investments could come at advisable times though, differentiate between things you want, and things you need. For example, if you start out with a Plug-in-Profit site which will include an ezine through an autoresponder, then make sure that autoresponder is not putting in any ads and repparttar 104091

like, even if this means making an investment into making it to a registered version. In essence, what you want is to get repparttar 104092

maximum Return on Investment (ROI) on your purchases, and you might not be getting that if for example you upgrade an affiliate program without anyone in your downline. Another example is buying services to submit your ezine to directories or announcement pages; is this something that can be done? Of course, but you can also do it yourself, given you have to spend a lot more time one it, but repparttar 104093

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2. Backup all your work/information/stuff... A good habit to learn is to make consecutive backups of all your work to an external source such as disc, floppy, thumb drive....the choices are many. It is a fact that any storage device will eventually brake down and repparttar 104095 information on it will be lost, and in knowing that we should determine repparttar 104096 best cause of action to prevent that we loose our vital information. I recommend getting a USB thumb drive with enough space for all your work (homepages, articles...you name it..). Why a thumb drive you might ask, well, these small little devices can be inserted into any computer with a USB port (the name of a certain jack on repparttar 104097 back of repparttar 104098 computer which is incorporated into most computers today, although it is also installed at repparttar 104099 front of repparttar 104100 computer more and more) and be ready for use without any software being installed, similar to a floppy disc, but a lot more space to put stuff into. So all in all this will provide you with a guarantee that all your hard work won’t disappear into thin air because of a computer failure.

How to Increase Sales with Automation Improvements

Written by Diana Barnum

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bylines are included. A courtesy copy of your publication would be appreciated - send to: diana@ohiohelp.net

How to Increase Sales with Automation Improvements

How popular is online shopping? And is there room for improvement? Let’s check out some pros and cons of automated shopping and see.

Digital carts offer convenience for people around repparttar 104086 globe 24 hours a day. Yet an estimated 4 percent of shoppers make purchases, up from 3.5 percent in 2003, reported by DoubleClick, an online marketing company.

And approximately 30 percent of shopping carts are abandoned, according to recent surveys by BizRate.com, a shopping search engine.

The main reasons for shopping cart abandonment are*:

·High shipping prices (72%) ·Comparison shopping or browsing (61%) ·Changed mind (56%) ·Saving items for later purchase (51%) ·Total cost of items is too high (43%) ·Checkout process is too long (41%) ·Checkout requires too much personal information (35%) ·Site requires registration before purchase (34%) ·Site is unstable or unreliable (31%) ·Checkout process is confusing (27%)

To decrease shopping cart abandonment and increase sales, simple minor improvements in automation can be highly effective. Here are some tips that work best for clients and workers alike of OhioHelp.net, an Ohio-based company that specializes in helping businesses worldwide with their marketing, public relations and freelance writing services.

TOP TIPS FROM OHIOHELP.NET

1.Calculate all handling charges and fees in with your price whenever possible, so that you can offer no-cost shipping. And check for specials like Flat Rate packages with Priority Shipping.

2.Don’t have people pre-register, fill out lengthy forms, wait for email confirmation, find their password / user ID and figure out how to log in again and continue to fill out more detailed forms and click through a half-dozen pages. Ugh! People want to shop, buy and go. Period.

3.On EVERY page of your site, shopping cart, receipt and Thank You or other automated reply, list complete contact information. Include a specific person to follow up with, business phone number and postal address (no P.O. Box) and a direct email address like diana@ohiohelp.net (i.e. not info@ohiohelp.net). Then if repparttar 104087 Internet connection fails, repparttar 104088 site goes down or any number of other technical issues occurs, repparttar 104089 shopper immediately has concrete information for follow up.

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