If you were waiting for the next 'great leap forward' in online sales for the small business or online shop then you need to look no further than this innovative free Facebook ecommerce application. Given the potential audience that is available through Facebook, Ravox gives you the opportunity to capitalize on its pulling power by letting you create a completely personalizable online shop and sell your goods to your friends and followers. But that's not all. If you don't have anything to sell, you can also earn money by promoting and sharing other people's products and claim a portion of ... Read more
PayPage solves a long term problem that has been a bit of a thorn in the side of small retail business for years. How can you accept credit card payments online when you haven't gone through the whole rigmarole of organizing it with a provider? PayPage allows anyone to accept credit card payments online and do it within seconds. Email a link to your customer and they have access to pay straight away. Naturally, there is a commission for the service but, at 5% + 45 cents, it seems to be a pretty easy way of solving a tricky problem. ... Read more
It's said that nearly three quarters of all online shopping cart transactions don't get completed before going to purchase, for one reason or another. It may be that the customer doesn't have their credit card readily available or they don't understand the form they are filling in. It might even mean that their dinner is ready and they will have to "finish it next time." So, you've done all the hard work to lure the customer to your site, they've made a decision on buying something but you don't get the dollars. What can be done to encourage those people ... Read more
The whole concept of coupon shopping has changed a bit over the years. For the uninitiated, coupons are discounts given away by companies as a form of promotion and are particularly prevalent in the US. These days they are used more often by the more price conscious who have turned coupon finding into a bit of an art form. Coupons at Checkout is a very useful lightweight browser extension application that saves you heaps of time by organizing your coupons and presenting them for use at any of your favorite online retailers. And with so many online retailers offering discount ... Read more
I am convinced that most people are basically pretty honest. If you give them a good, legal and easy way of downloading digital material they will go for it even if they have to pay for it. Take the whole music downloading situation. When it was difficult to find the music that people wanted they would risk bugs and prosecution and go to sites like Napster and Limewire to find the music they wanted. But as soon as a site like iTunes came along that was simple to use, customers were more than happy to use its services. Sellwire is ... Read more
To steal from David Fincher's excellent film Fight Club, what's the first rule for your website? The answer is, of course, to never have any downtime. When your server or browser is down and you don't know about it, there's a pretty good possibility that your visitors will go elsewhere and possibly not come back. Appfail is a cloud-based error monitoring system that enables online businesses to discover, diagnose and track failures in their websites and immediately let's you know about it with an email or message straight to your device. Organizations invest significant resources to encourage customers and ... Read more
Where web design is concerned, the current trend is to design your own website with one of the easy step-by-step applications like WebStarts, Plebu, EXAI or WebStartToday. But sometimes there is a good argument for using a professional web design company. If you use a tax accountant to work out your tax at the end of the financial year you will know how their expertise and knowledge can give you the best result possible and the same can be said for web design. Hiccup Solutions is a highly experienced web design company that are adept at designing and developing all ... Read more
One of the things that we all seem to remember about dealings with a business is the way they handle their customer service. While we expect a business to do what they do well, it's often how they handle things when something goes wrong that is the thing that most gets our goat up, as my mother used to say. They reckon that, for every one person that complains about a service you offer, there are another six who will simply tell their friends. So when a problem crops up it would be good to nip it in the bud ... Read more
Developers Bizelo have made their name by creating accounts, supply and business management applications, so they know what they are doing when it comes to delivering a good, solid and innovative set of business tools. Centralized Inventory is an easy way to manage your stock inventory across all your stores and warehouses whether they are Main Street retail or online stores. And coming in at under twenty five bucks per month it could be the best way of knowing what you have in stock and what you might be almost running out of. Bizelo are well known for their ... Read more
It's becoming increasingly obvious that a mobile version of your shop is becoming more and more essential for the savvy businessperson. With people turning away from conventional Main Street retail shopping it makes total sense to provide a way your customers can still purchase your goodies safely and securely without having to take the number 47 bus to your door. zubibu is an easy to use and cost effective ecommerce application for your mobile that provides everything you need to launch your mobile shop in just a few minutes. If you are looking to establish an online shop or ... Read more