Website Tips
9 Reasons why your website is slow
Why oh why is my website slow? If you’ve ever asked yourself this question then you know how frustrating it can be when your website loads really slowly and with visitor frustration being a cause as to website’s success or failure and increased bounce rates, it makes sense that you want your website to load
How to Segment Website Traffic in Google Analytics
The team at Google Analytics has been working on a new user interface and a lot of new features and functionality lately and today I wanted to highlight one area in particular. Most marketing people and business owners are interested in segmenting their traffic to see how their customers and visitors are using their website.
How to Setup Web-to-Lead pages for Sandbox Testing
Here is a tip for anyone setting up web-to-lead pages using SalesForce. SalesForce for those of you who don’t know is a world class CRM solution and the ability to generate and integrate web-to-lead functionality into your website or land pages gives you a lot of additional functionality after you get your lead data into
An introduction to feedback analytics
Have you ever wanted to know what your customers are thinking when they come to your website, buy something from your ecommerce store or find out what they think of your software? If you have, then allow me to introduce the concept of “Feedback analytics”. Feedback Analytics are based on customer feedback and they aren’t
How to Manually Add Plugins in WordPress Using an FTP Client
Today i am going to show you how to add plugins to your WordPress website using an FTP (File Transfer Protocol) client. Don’t mind the technical jargon so much because all you really need to know is that FTP allows you to add files to your website hosting directories. I personally use FileZilla as my FTP client but
WordPress Tips
Using CustomPress for the First Time
Today I wanted to walk you through using the Custom Press plugin for WordPress. Now for those of you who aren’t or have little to no interest in coding, relax, and don’t break out into a cold sweat this isn’t going to be one of “those” articles. Custom Press is a Plugin that allows you
How to Setup WP E-commerce for Affiliate Marketing
Most of the ecommerce platforms out there aren’t built for people to build a catalog for affiliate marketing on specific products or cross selling opportunities for other websites that partner with you. I wanted to give you a tip today that allows you to use WP E-commerce for affiliate marketing using their “Off Site Product
How to Setup Products in WP E-commerce
Setting up products in any ecommerce platform whether it runs on WordPress or not is a key concern for most people usually with questions of “How easy is it to use?”, “Can it handle my business needs?” and “Can I manage and make changes to it by myself?”. I wrote in a past article about
How to Setup Shipping Options Using ECWID
It’s been a while since I wrote about this plugin but ECWID (Ecommerce Widgets) is a solid plugin if you are looking to add the ability to process ecommerce transactions on your website. When you setup shipping in ECWID you can obviously choose the option to use a third-party shipping rate estimate tool from FedEx,
How to Use Conditional Tax Rules in Shopp
As I mentioned in an article that I wrote recently called “5 Things to Consider About Tax on Your Ecommerce Website” where I talked about 5 things you should spend some time thinking about when considering just how and what to setup on your ecommerce website in terms of tax. I’ve also written about the
Product Reviews
OneStepCheckOut Releases New Version and Lots of Features
Within the last week the team at OneStepCheckout has released version 4 of its flagship product which minimizes the checkout process and increases the conversion rate on your Magento Ecommerce website. Some of the newest features include… Order preview before confirmation Redirect to checkout automatically after adding product to cart Separate housenumber from street address
Product Review: MotoCMS
MotoCMS is an interesting product in that it’s a flash based content management system in a time of HTML5 and CSS3. If you are looking for a CMS system that is going to give you the ability to develop flash websites with greater ease and more functionality then this is an interesting tool to use
Product Review: Affiliate Royale for WordPress
Blair Williams, the creator of a few successful WordPress plugins including PrettyLink which I personally use and Mingle has received come up with another plugin product called “Affiliate Royale”. Affiliate Royale is an Affiliate Management plugin for WordPress and it allows you the ability to integrate WordPress in a way that you can create and
How to add SEO to your BaseKit Website
This is the second article that I’ve written about BaseKit in a series of articles that are going to take you through how to use BaseKit to get your website up and running in no time at all. In the first article, I talked about how you could create a website using BaseKit and today
How to Create a Website Using BaseKit
BaseKit is a product that has been developed to help people simplify the way that they make websites and with over 100,000 active users on their platform they’ve proven their worth as a website building platform. I want to walk you through the features that BaseKit offers and provide you a tutorial of how you
Product Review of Wix.com
This is just the first article in a series of product reviews aimed at helping you understand how to go about selecting a “Pay As You Go” or subscription based website. In this article, I am going to highlight some of the features that makes Wix.com an attractive “Pay As You Go” option and some
Product Review of OneStepCheckout for Magento
OneStepCheckout is a great addition if you are running an ecommerce site using Magento. What this plugin does is take the standard mulit-step checkout and allow you to reduce it to a single step. Why would you want to do that? Simple! It’s because you want to increase the conversion rate of the checkout process
