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How to Firmly Position Your Ecommerce Brand Above the Competition

Ecommerce can be a dogfight. So many different retailers are vying for supremacy in often crowded markets. Customers in 2016 now have more choices than they have ever had. With smartphone devices attached to them like an extra limb, they can pull up hundreds of your competitors in seconds. One of the most powerful things…

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How to Find the Right Style for Your Copywriting

The difference between good copy and not-so-good copy is pretty stark. To write compellingly, you need to assume the roles of both artist and scientist, and know how to balance the two. Weak copy will blindly neglect both of these roles. Creativity is the engine that propels the copy and brings it to life. The…

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How to Successfully Create and Manage Content for Your Ecommerce Store in 2016

There’s a few reasons why content is absolutely essential when running an online business: it can build authority, instill trust, gain traffic, and persuade site visitors into becoming buyers. It’s one of the most important elements on your site, and it should be an integral part of your marketing strategy. With all of that said,…

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Why Upselling Is One of The Best Ways to Increase Customer Satisfaction

Inexperienced vendors view upselling as a dirty concept. Many think it’s a cheap, sleazy tactic that only exists to get more sales. To be fair, that can be the case. There are hordes of deviously sleazy salesman who are quite talented at sinking their hands into their customers’ pockets, while offering no value in return….

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The Best Types of Posts That Will Build Your Brand on Instagram

There are now over 300 million people who use Instagram. That’s a staggering number. A few years ago it was a new Iphone-only app, now it’s a social media behemoth. There are many reasons why people are addicted to Instagram, but let’s talk about the primary reason: It’s a visual medium. People love pictures and…

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Twitter Lead Generation Secrets the Pros Use

People underestimate Twitter. Businesses see it as a customer service or a branding tool, which is an accurate application of it, but it’s limiting. Twitter is a versatile platform, and is one of the best tools can use for lead generation– the majority of businesses don’t really know it yet. Let’s look at some ways…

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The 6 Best WooCommerce Checkout Plugins That Will Increase Sales

The checkout is the last, and arguably most significant, stage in the buying process. It’s also where many online operations fumble the ball. Checkout issues will abruptly stop sales, frustrate customers, and will hurt your brand in the long-term. This is why your checkout process should be impeccably smooth. WooCommerce, WordPress’ best ecommerce platform, has…

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Should a WooCommerce Shop Run on Shared Hosting or a VPS?

One of the worst setbacks a website deals with is downtime. The longer your site is down, more sales go down the drain. One of your main concerns as an ecommerce retailer is maximizing your revenue, and web server issues directly undermine that. Suffice it to say, the hosting plan that you choose matters immensely….

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Are You Making These Product Description Mistakes?

When you sell anything online, there’s always one general metric (regardless of the situation) that will always mean something: sales. Your online store will either live or die by how many sales you make. There are many elements that will directly influence the amount of sales that you bring in. When someone clicks on a…

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The 4 Most Essential Success Metrics for Your E-Commerce Store

In the e-commerce space, business owners that are successful often know exactly why they are successful. They’re successful, for one major reason, because they know how well they are performing– their data always tells the story. Your success in e-commerce is determined by number and hard facts. And while it’s easy to rely on instincts,…

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How to Use the WooCommerce Points and Rewards Plugin to Increase Repeat Purchases

Every successful business owner knows that one of the keys to running a business successfully is the building the loyalty of his customer base. Loyalty makes customers come back for repeat sales, and it compels them to talk about your business with their friends and family. But loyalty, more often than not, does not come…