Marketing your product online can be a complex and daunting process. With SEO becoming more and more complicated and social media eating up more of your time, spending a little time mapping out your sales funnel is becoming extremely important. So read on, I’ll guide you through setting up the essentials to help you convert your tire-kicking prospects into happy, loyal customers.
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Social media, it invades every part of our day. We’re checking it at work, checking in at restaurants and bars to show our friends where we’re socializing. Posting our vacation pictures to show people where we went. It is one of the main activities people take part in online all the time. So syncing a social media experience with your e-commerce store offers you the chance to help drive added value to your audience and paying customers alike. So with that said, let’s take a look at 9 different ways that will make social media effective for your online store.
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So, you’ve made the leap and opened up a website to help sell your product. But, you want to make sure your customers have something to see when they land at your shiny new site. Well, this is where landing pages come in. Think of them as the complimentary bottles of water that you get when you check in to a hotel. They make you feel welcomed and mainly are there to help encourage you to possibly raid the mini-fridge later. However, a bad landing page can have customers go off your site faster than you can say bounce rate. Well, that’s what we’re here for, to help you make sure that when potential customers come to your site, they don’t want to leave. Here’s our list of the top 10 best practices you should use when building your landing pages.
Good Question! Let’s break this down a bit before we answer it. First off, what is a landing page? Well, a landing page is a standalone page that’s tangentially attached to your website. They’re also designed for someone who’s on your site to complete an action, whether this is signing up for a mailing list, purchase something, it can also simply be used as a gate to gather information before the visitor gets to the main part of your site. Mainly, this page is used for someone to complete an action and leave the page. So if you’re looking to build a mailing list to help gain repeat customers, and let’s be honest here, who isn’t? Then that is why you need a landing page or several for your site.
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Hey All,
Theo from Mountain Media here again for another SEO Rundown. I know that it has been a bit since my last post but it has been very here at Mountain Media and as such I’ve had little time for making this video. However, I feel that with the rollout of Penguin 3.0, it was high time I sent out this video.
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With the EMV shift now almost three weeks in, merchants need to be even more on guard to online fraud. With physical card present fraud becoming near impossible with the new chip, fraudsters will go where the path of resistance is least, unfortunately, that is currently online merchants. When a merchant gets hit with fraudulent orders on their website, the cost is more than just the money. It can take a toll on their confidence and make them question whether they should abandon their hopes at being an entrepreneur.
Consider these easy to implement techniques that will help eCommerce merchants to avoid fraud. Following these techniques will save you time, money, aggravation and help you avoid developing a bad online reputation. Having been in the eCommerce space for over 12-years, I have seen a wide spectrum of fraud on the Internet. Almost every case of fraud could have been avoided if the merchant had their payment gateway configured correctly. In most cases, the transactions are glaringly fraudulent; but the merchant is so thrilled to have a great order that they overlook the obvious signs and fill the order only to get burned. Here are my suggestions for avoiding online fraud.
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