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Here’s some great tips from our BIG Commerce partners on using social proof to boost your credibility, traffic and actually sales results.  As always, words of wisdom…
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More people over the age of 55 use the internet now than people under 25, according to the latest research report from the British Population Survey. Even Bill Gates, who conceived the equipment we use, and Tim Berners-Lee, who conceived the Internet itself, are both now 55 and ‘Silver Surfers’ themselves. The under 25’s, the ‘iLifer’ generation who have never experienced life without the internet, are driving some of the newer uses of the Internet such as online gaming, music & movie downloading,
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Did you know that Youtube is the second most popular search site after Google? People are drawn to videos and many a business has found its sweet spot on Youtube, as much as their website or blog. Video is a great attention-getter on any website or blog, and can make your business stand out. And it actually does boost the bottom line. Here’s some recent stats from the US. Online retailer Living Direct found that videos boosted conversion and
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If you talk to owners of online stores, a big gripe is always the management of products. Bulk updating of item pricing or categories can be very time consuming and extremely frustrating. We’ve made big efforts to make this quick and painless. Below is a short video showing off one of our webstore management options.
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There are plenty of mobile applications for those who want to update their twitter or Facebook pages these. But why not their main website or e-storefront? All our WordPress-based sites have free mobile apps for iPhone, Blackberry, Windows mobile, Android and most S60 Nokia series. The iPhone version is shown left. We’ve also a special mobile App for our retail showroom packages. We introduced this as many store owners didn’t like staff spending time with digital cameras and
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There’s always side benefits when using the world’s top CMS technology, WordPress. Developers worldwide keep pouring out amazing tools we can just plug-in. Just released is a slick, $50 add-on for our full eCommerce websites that allow you to track sales by the minute on your iPhone or Android phone! Even $10,000+  eCommerce websites from bigger eCommerce providers can’t boast this (or our other management / tracking tools) yet.
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Most are aware of how tools like Google Analytics (and many others) can track what’s happening on your website. But it can work with storefronts too and when presented right, provides incredible feedback on what’s happening and how you can fine tune your site to get more sales. Checkout one of the new tools we add to our full storefronts. It’s quite unique. At least in this price category… Amazing Analytics that helps sales and selling strategies
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