You Need More Than a Shopping Cart to Make Sales

A shopping cart by itself is an ineffective way to make online sales. Shopping cart vendors typically offer numerous add-ons that make marketing and selling your products online an integrated process. Integrated sales and marketing efforts maximize your time, effort and expense.

Why You Need an Affiliate Module in Your Online Shopping Cart

If you’re selling products of any kind and you don’t have an affiliate program, you need to set one up. If you’ve already got one, but you’re manually tracking commissions, you should add an affiliate module to your shopping cart. Any time you can, automate your business processes.

Affiliate Program Basics

Becoming a part of an affiliate program is a great way to add some passive income. Commission Junction makes it easy to collaborate many affiliate programs into one.

Why Use A Shopping Cart?

Using a shopping cart is the most useful way to streamline the process.

How To Reconnect With Your Audience

Have you lost touch with your core audience? Wish you knew how to stay in touch with everyone while still having time to run your business? There are ways to stay in touch with your target market, stay current on the trends they are most interested in, and still have time to run your business. Here are three of the best ways to stay in touch and stay on track!

What Do You Charge?

Deciding what to charge clients is a complex process based on factors including cost of goods or services, overhead and business expenses. Lately there is a lot of talk about charging a client what you think you’re worth, which seems vague and possibly self-defeating. What you charge should probably take into account your value to them!

Is Your Business Perceived as Godiva or Hershey Kisses?

Studies have been conducted where chocolate tasters actually preferred ordinary Hershey’s Kisses over elegant Godiva chocolates. Imagine people preferring the taste of chocolates that come wrapped in foil and jumbled in a bag over hand-crafted chocolates carefully placed in a gold box! How can a $4.00 bag of Kisses win over a $40.00 box of [...]

Glazer-Kennedy Inner Circle Sales and Marketing SuperConference 2008

Wow! What an amazing conference last week in Nashville! I’m a Gold+ member of the Glazer-Kennedy Inner Circle and attended the Gold+ reception before the conference, which was a wonderful introduction to what was yet to come. At the reception I was able to meet quite a few highly motivated business owners [...]

Ali Brown - How to Leverage the Power of a Virtual Team

As a member of Ali Brown’s Silver Mastermind group, I attended the monthly teleconference tonight.  Great topic - virtual team building secrets!  Ali acknowledged while it’s fun doing everything yourself when starting your business, this just isn’t sustainable as your business grows and as you need your business to grow.  You just can’t make money [...]

Ali Brown’s Interview with Robert Skrob

Last week Ali Brown (eZine Queen) had an insightful phone interview with Robert Skrob about “The 9 Simple Steps to Building a $$$ Million Dollar Info-Marketing Business…Within 12 Months!”.  Robert took some time to explain opportunities to develop home study courses, coaching seminars and teleseminars.  The emphasis was packaging what you know and marketing that [...]