A Successful eCommerce Website - Part 1

Written by Richard G Keir


So you want to succeed at eCommerce? Welcome to a very large group. First off, let’s be clear that there are a lot of ways to do business onrepparttar internet - and a lot of ways to both make and lose money. No way can I cover all of them in a few fairly short articles.

This article is going to assume that you have some ofrepparttar 105261 fundamentals, that you understandrepparttar 105262 language and that you are serious. I’m not going to tell you how to set up a web site or get a decent hosting account. We’re a bit beyond those basics. The basics here have to do with factors which will influencerepparttar 105263 success (or failure) andrepparttar 105264 degree of success an eCommerce web site experiences.

First and foremost, you need to provide value for your customers. Absurd as it seems to have to repeat that, a lot of so-called eCommerce sites provide no or very little value for their visitors. Pretending to offer value is notrepparttar 105265 same thing as providing value. Promoting miserably written, hackneyed, cloned ebooks filled with questionably useful and/or outdated content doesn’t make for a high value site. Sure you can make some money. Once. And you’ll likely have a high refund rate. Essentially you'd be taking advantage ofrepparttar 105266 inexperience of your customers and abusing their willingness to trust you. Not a good path to a long-term business with steady repeat customers.

Value onrepparttar 105267 net is not very different from any kind of off-line retail sales -- a quality product line that will attract potential customers and a competitive price that will lead to purchases. An honest, quality product that will meetrepparttar 105268 expectations you’ve created in your buyers. Hyped junk won’t do it.

Next, you’ve got to have a smooth, user-friendly, easy to follow process allrepparttar 105269 way to your thank you page. The simpler, cleaner and clearer you can makerepparttar 105270 process,repparttar 105271 better. Where it makes sense you can augment this user-responsive site profile by adding live-response chat.

If you do use call-in or live chat, it’s imperative that your operators be well-trained, understand your products and your system and BE customer friendly. This can be a difficult job if you outsource. The less expensive out-source alternatives can be a bad investment. You’ll need to check very carefully and be certainrepparttar 105272 operators do actually speak and understandrepparttar 105273 primary languages(s) of your targeted customer group. You’ll need to provide extensive background information and highly flexible, well-written scripts. You should also collect customer evaluations of these services - separately, and carefully monitor your results to be sure you are getting a decent return onrepparttar 105274 investment.



Where Do You Find Time for a Home Based Business?

Written by Gobala Krishnan


Copyright 2005 Gobala Krishnan

I am very often asked this question by affiliates in my home business network, and almost every time it happens, I just shake my head in pity and disbelief. They just don't get it...

Where DO you findrepparttar time to run, manage and promote your home based business? I honestly don't know. I know one thing for sure; you can never really "find" time; you must "make time".

Many who are new torepparttar 105259 concept of running a home based business suffer what I like to callrepparttar 105260 "Indecision Syndrome". They have not made up their minds that they WANT or NEED a home based business, and my friend let me tell you, until you have made a decision you will never have time on your side.

You will never be able to devote even 1 hour to building a business for yourself if you don't haverepparttar 105261 sense of urgency, and if you don't understand what a home based business can do for your life and your family inrepparttar 105262 long term.

Here's whatrepparttar 105263 people who claim they can't "find" time do; they putrepparttar 105264 least priority on their business. Everything else in life seems more important to them and they generally place their home based business last inrepparttar 105265 inrepparttar 105266 order of daily importance, such as this:

1) Spend 45 minutes in a jam 2) Go to work and slug for their boss 3) Hangout with friends a local pub after work 4) Spend 45 minutes in a jam 5) Get home and cook dinner 6) Do allrepparttar 105267 domestic chores 7) Watch a few hours of TV 8) Get ready forrepparttar 105268 next day of work 9) Sit on their PC and read sports news 10) Devoterepparttar 105269 rest of their time to their home based business

If you’re one of those that feel you have "no time" for your home based business then I challenge you to tell me this is not at least somewhat true. Prove me wrong. Make me eat my words. Chances are you'll find that difficult to do...

Guilty as charged, right… :)

If you prioritize your hours in such a way, how do you even realistically expect to "find time"? How do you realistically expect to "Be your own boss" and have "Financial Freedom"?

The truth is anyone who REALLY wants to build a home based business must make a conscious decision that they are going to do it no matter what it takes. After that life-changing decision is made, there has to be sacrifice...

I can almost hear you say "Huh? Sacrifice? Sacrifice what?"

You have to sacrificerepparttar 105270 time you spend doing non-productive and non-income-generating activities everyday, and replacerepparttar 105271 gained time to dorepparttar 105272 really important tasks. If you're serious about making time for your business, there is no other way. You'll be amazed at how much you can achieve.

Stuck in a jam?

Here's what I do; I always have some educational or self-motivational cassette or CD inrepparttar 105273 car. I even have Internet marketing CDs that I listen to day-in and day-out for 90 minutes (actually mine's not that long). That's a whole 90 minutes of learning new things every single day, and improving my interpersonal and technical skills constantly. Don't I like to listen to music while driving? Yes, I do. Butrepparttar 105274 sacrifice has to be there. I now listen to about 15 minutes of music only if I really feel like it.

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