How to start a successful ecommerce website?

So, you want to know how to start an ecommerce store selling digital products.

You want to register an Amazon and Clickbank account and ready to offer the products, but also want to have actual products of your own to sell on you own ecommerce store and advertise them on other sites. You have been sniffing around forums to suggestions as to what product to sell. You start wondering whether to do affiliates or build and sell your own products! And you start to ask, what things do you need to prepare to start your own ecommerce store?

There is a lot of things one needs to prepare to start an online ecommerce store or website. The biggest part I think is that, first you need to decide exactly what you are going to sell. This may sound redundant and a little over-emphasizing, but really, a lot of start ups do not even go past this question.

For example, if the digital items that you are wanting to sell are yours then they will need to be prepared and ready to be sold. They needed to be packaged in such a way that they are sell-able. And if you are going to be getting your products from another source, then you will need to get the supply end sorted out.

Read rest of post here: start a successful ecommerce website

Which option is best long term to sell a new product online?

Which option is best long term to sell a new product and what is the easiest way to get there?

Suppose you have a new product you want to sell online. You have your target group penciled in, and figured it does not need much explaining to get people to buy, you will definitely be able to sell it.

Everything about the product is ready for shipping, you have your stock with you ready for sale. Now, you are struggling with the idea of how to get this out to people to sell to. Finding the right keywords and doing a good campaign is tough enough to get traffic, and you are wondering where you should send the prospects to.

You have made you initial research and have been to forums to get ideas from people on the marketing niche and maybe have read something like the following:

I have never sold an item that I promoted with adwords. In those ads I always have exactly the picture of the product, the price and the description. The last one was pointing to ebay and that was obvious. No surprises, if you click on it.

Why does anyone click on an ad to then not buy if it is so obviously clear what you get? Is it all click fraud? Why do people always say that adwords helped them when I don’t have this experience AT ALL.

Overall I have already paid $xxxx for different campaigns with NOTHING in return. Not a single sale.

I am so sick of the low-quality traffic that google sends to me. And I don’t even see options to change it. I looked at the “Placements”. Google put it on pages only retarded people visit. At least then it’s no surprise they are too dumb to comprehend anything. One page was not even found(404) but according to google, it had 400 impressions. Most pages where people alledgedly clicked have horrible design, stuck in the 90ies, enormeous clickbait pages. Only 2 or 3 are good.

Now the struggle is real! Are you going to sell your product on Ebay? Amazon perhaps? Or have my own ecommerce website built? Google Ads have become so negative to you, you are not even mentioning it.

In this post, I am going to present arguments as to what is the best long term option for you to sell your new product online. But first I want to put this thought forward:

Learning Prestashop/thirtybees Properly: Working the Product Catalog

The heart of every ecommerce website is the product catalog! Having a product catalog that is carefully thought-out goes a long way to the success of your online store.

In this tutorial, we will go through the process of the essential criteria to create a complete and well-distributed product catalog together.

There are two important aspect of working with your product catalog list that you have to really go deep and spend time with. I would say, it is the most difficult and time-consuming part of having to own and manage an ecommerce store. One is the product description and the other is the product presentation – taking pictures of the product from different angles. It would be different if you are reselling someone else’s product, which usually come with a product image you can outright use. These are the two points on which you must take the most time.

If your product listing took you 5 minutes to create, there is a problem. Take the time to write and structure a smart product catalog.

This tutorial will not teach you how to make a product description. That is totally separate topic and deserve a full article of itself.

Below are some of the things to consider when writing descriptions.

1. Think about your users and customers
2. Think about search engine optimization.
3. Think about cohesiveness.
4. Think about “call outs”.
5. Think about product benefits.

Hope this helps you learn Prestashop or thirty bees properly!

Stripe Corporate Card for Your Online Business is a Smart Move

Thirtybees comes with Stripe as one of its core modules! So, you don’t have to buy one or hire a developer to integrate it into thirtybees to have Stripe payment system in your online store like most of the other ecommerce platforms.

Stripe is one of the featured partner for thirtybees in 2019. And majority of e-commerce platform open-source or not have extensions, plugins, and addons developed for their particular system.

The Stripe module allows your thirty bees site to easily accept payments from the Stripe payment processing platform. This module supports the latest Stripe API and also ApplePay as well. Let me show you a screenshot of what you have got in your thirtybees install:

But starting today, you can use Stripe for corporate credit cards — complete with your own shiny logo.

Yes, you heard that right. A personalized corporate credit cards from Stripe!

This is going to be really really big if your company who runs a remote team, your employees encounter incidental costs all the time – such as an Uber to the airport, coffee with a client, replacing a broken power cord, etc. So, your company can issue every person on the team a corporate card as soon as they join. That way, they never have to take money out from their pocket for the company while they wait for an expense report to process. Not to mention the hassle of filing for reimbursement.

Read full article Stripe Corporate Card for Your Online Business is a Smart Move

Thirtybees Review, Ecommerce Software that Empowers Merchants to Increase Sales

shoptech Media Thirtybees Reviews?

There are three criteria that we have always maintained with our clients regarding development of ecommerce websites:

1. Is my website going to load fast and display well on all devices?
2. Is my website ecommerce comparatively easy to use from the admin panel?
3. Will my ecommerce website run without me paying for addons like Blog, good payment system, and an email management?

The above three questions are really crucial in our development of ecommerce website because they are questions from our clients. Thirty bees checked in a BIG “YES” on those three quite well. So, we are happy with it.

In the two years that we have been developing ecommerce website with thirtybees platform, we have not seen any issue that would affect our impression of it negatively. Yes, there are issues and features that needs to be better, but so with all of the major ecommerce platform out there.

Our rating is a 5 start and excellent review for thirtybees! Truly an ecommerce platform that works!

Don’t take our words for it! Check it out for yourself!

Will Your Online Store Take Off on Black Friday?

Why is it important to run a sales campaign for black friday now?

Reason #1. People are Scouring the internet for hot deals this early.  They are looking out for items they need that may be on sale, such as appliances like televisions, etc. This is now the best time to run an ad campaign like google adwords, social media ads, etc.

Reason #2. People are Using social media websites to locate Black Friday sales. Advertise your deals online through social media. Create Facebook pages or Twitter feeds of your ecommerce website, and do a social media ads campaign that includes the keywords “Black Friday” to target specific searchers

Reason #3. People are checking their emails for email campaign deals! Send out email sales campaign  that showcase your Black Friday deals before it happens. Take advantage of how open people are going to read and click email campaigns that says “30% or 50% off on all product this black friday!”

Read full article on Will Your Online Store Take Off on Black Friday?

Learning Prestashop/thirtybees Properly: Working the Home and Footer Blocks

In this series episode on Learning Prestahop/thirtybees properly, we are going to be learning about the Home and footer blocks. I mentioned the last lesson series Working with Banners effectively, that we are gonna be working on blocks, and we did! The slider module is actually nested on a block, as well as the navigation menu module which the Block Top Menu module. In this episode, we are going to expand our knowledge of Prestashop/thirtybees even further.

This time we will finalize the homepage together by adjusting the content of the different blocks and removing unnecessary content. You will see it done in 30 minutes, pretty simple enough, that anyone can follow and configure Prestashop modules in no time!

This is the 6th lesson in this series, Learning Prestashop or thirtybees properly.

A standard Prestashop and thirtybees homepage is already quite complete in it’s default configuration. Which is good for starting merchants that often starts small. You got everything you need at your finger tips with this ecommerce platform, especially thirtybees. In fact, the functionality we can find being loaded at default install is quite too much actually, we can definitely disable some of them if we want to. And I always recommend people to disable the elements that are not essential to get a clearer implementation and also easier to maintain content that is lighter on the server.

As we move deeper into this lesson, we are going to touch on the footer block. Footers are an important part of an ecommerce website or any website for that matter. It is where we tell people about resources of the business, links to see the experience of the business in this particular field, an accessible phone number, a real address and a email address. It is in the footer that you show your customers you exist in real life to remove whatever doubt they may have about you and your business.

In this series episode, we are going to learn a lot of things. I have listed them below for you to see and check later as you progress in this tutorial:

Read full article learning prestashop