http://www.articlesphere.com/Category/Ecommerce/175 Ecommerce articles from Find Articles at ArticleSphere.com Rss Follow Up Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:47:10 -0700 When it comes to ecommerce sites, there are plenty of keywords to choose from. Because sites typically follow a fairly set format, numerous pages are created between the home page and the order confirmation page. Those pages all need keywords and phrases if they are going to rank high in the search engines. So, how exactly do you choose the best keywords for each page? Here's an easy strategy to follow. (Please keep in mind that all keyphrases used in this article are for example only and have not been researched.) http://www.articlesphere.com/Article/A-Simple-and-Effective-Keyword-Strategy-for-Ecommerce-Sites/159834 Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.articlesphere.com/Article/A-Simple-and-Effective-Keyword-Strategy-for-Ecommerce-Sites/159834 Since the advent of the Internet we have experienced a scale of global trade unlike any before. You can find a supplier these days for almost every product imaginable and whilst this seemingly unlimited choice has often resulted in a win-win situation for all participants in the trade, this ease of trade has also opened a Pandoras Box of corruption and dishonesty of sorts. This may sound daunting, but the trick is to prepare as much as reasonably possible before jumping into the world that is Global Wholesale Product Sourcing and E-Commerce. http://www.articlesphere.com/Article/Global-Wholesale-Product-Sourcing--Verifying-Australian-Suppliers/158260 Sun, 03 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.articlesphere.com/Article/Global-Wholesale-Product-Sourcing--Verifying-Australian-Suppliers/158260 So what is eBay anyway? You probably already have some ideas of what eBay is, but let me elaborate a little further. One way to look at eBay is to imagine a worldwide newspaper full of classified ads listing products and services for sale. Or perhaps a For Sale bulletin board that millions of people can see. Of course, eBay charges sellers to put an ad up, but the exposure to the millions of worldwide buyers is worth it. http://www.articlesphere.com/Article/Ever-Wondered-What-eBay-Really-Is-/158007 Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.articlesphere.com/Article/Ever-Wondered-What-eBay-Really-Is-/158007 When choosing an e-commerce provider, there are a few essentials one must know about. Shopping carts, licensed carts, SSL, hosted or licensed solution, PCI DSS compliance, buying or renting from your web hosts. these and many more terms you should be familiar with before you launch your online business. This is a small guide that I have put together to assist anyone going into an online business and need to choose a web host. http://www.articlesphere.com/Article/Choosing-an-E-Commerce-Provider/157811 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.articlesphere.com/Article/Choosing-an-E-Commerce-Provider/157811 As the economy slows down and money is tight, a smart business owner will find a way to get rid of extra merchandise that they don't need and acquire merchandise they need. The most productive way to accomplish this is through trading merchandise with other businesses, also known as bartering. http://www.articlesphere.com/Article/Barter-Exchange-Networks-Will-Help-You-Build-Your-Business/157043 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.articlesphere.com/Article/Barter-Exchange-Networks-Will-Help-You-Build-Your-Business/157043 Traditional methods arent for everyone. They are expensive and therefore financially inaccessible to most small businesses. So if you have a limited budget, you will need to develop new strategies to attract potential customers and target them better than your competitors. A good place to start is simply including your URL and email address on all external office correspondence, including employee business cards, email messages, letterheads and promotional items. http://www.articlesphere.com/Article/Creative-Marketing/155972 Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.articlesphere.com/Article/Creative-Marketing/155972 You have just hung out your electronic shingle for a new online retail outlet. You have already considered the basic structure of your store, and know that you need a good ecommerce shopping cart to encourage business. There are many shopping cart solutions available to Internet stores, and they are even more important than physical carts are for brick-and-mortar retailers. Thus, you need to do your research and take care to pick a cart with the features your customers need. http://www.articlesphere.com/Article/Shopping-Cart-Software-To-Help-Your-Customers-Keep-Buying/155820 Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.articlesphere.com/Article/Shopping-Cart-Software-To-Help-Your-Customers-Keep-Buying/155820 A shopping cart serves as the frontend that transfers information through a secure connection to a payment gateway. The payment gateway interacts with your merchant bank account to process the information. It then sends back a confirmation or denial back to the shopping cart software. Here's a small 12 point checklist to refer to before integrating an online shopping cart solution... http://www.articlesphere.com/Article/Finding-The-Right-Online-Shopping-Cart-Solution/155581 Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.articlesphere.com/Article/Finding-The-Right-Online-Shopping-Cart-Solution/155581 I was absolutely shocked when I checked out a new client's website. He is an author who wants to sell more books. But he doesn't have an online shopping cart! He expects people to call his 800 number and give him their credit card number over the phone. He also asks people to send checks to his post office box. While both calls to action might seem normal, they are so 1980! In today's world, people expect to pay online. And you as an author should have an online shopping cart in place to take their money. http://www.articlesphere.com/Article/How-to-Sell-More-Books-Online-with-a-Professional-Online-Shopping-Cart/155446 Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.articlesphere.com/Article/How-to-Sell-More-Books-Online-with-a-Professional-Online-Shopping-Cart/155446 You definitely know that sometimes it is hard to find the perfect ecommerce software, if you have your own website. You need the right software to do the specific job about your product or service if you want to sell your product or service. Today, you have so many options available which can take quite a bit of work to find which one is correct for you. http://www.articlesphere.com/Article/Ecommerce-Software-For-New-Companies/154315 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.articlesphere.com/Article/Ecommerce-Software-For-New-Companies/154315 There are many e-commerce sites, which are using shopping cart to sale the products and services. There are three main types of shopping cart programs available in the market to start e-commerce or online store. The merchant services shopping carts permit you to process credit card transactions. It is possible to perform e-commerce operation over a secure connection. The hosted shopping cart is very much useful for the small and medium business with not having enough resources to buy and customize a fully integrated shopping cart for their needs. http://www.articlesphere.com/Article/11-Tips-For-Shopping-Carts-Applications-In-E-Commerce/153936 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.articlesphere.com/Article/11-Tips-For-Shopping-Carts-Applications-In-E-Commerce/153936 Is your online business or home-based business stalling because you are drowning in administration details? You're not the only one! Many small businesses are one step away from phenomenal success, if only they could increase their productivity AND reduce repetitive tasks and paperwork. After all, any time spent dealing with writing down orders or sending out emails one-by-one is time that you can't spend selling to your prospects. http://www.articlesphere.com/Article/How-the-Right-Shopping-Cart-Will-Increase-Productivity-and-Stop-Your-Online-Business-from-Stalling/151871 Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.articlesphere.com/Article/How-the-Right-Shopping-Cart-Will-Increase-Productivity-and-Stop-Your-Online-Business-from-Stalling/151871 Purchasing a good shopping cart solution could be an overwhelming task. ASP, PHP, Cold Fusion or Flash? There are so many acronyms flying around that it is fairly impossible for those who are not in the thick of it to decide what shopping cart to choose. Of course, as far as business owners are concerned, options, features and ease of use are the main criteria for choosing the software platform. http://www.articlesphere.com/Article/PHP-Shopping-Cart/149267 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.articlesphere.com/Article/PHP-Shopping-Cart/149267 Shopping cart software is software used in e-commerce to help people making purchases online. The software allows online shopping customers to keep items in the cart. On checking out, the software calculates a total for the order, including shipping and handling (that is for postage and packing) charges and the associated taxes, as applicable. http://www.articlesphere.com/Article/Shopping-Cart-Software--The-Cornerstone-Of-Web-Shopping/145689 Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.articlesphere.com/Article/Shopping-Cart-Software--The-Cornerstone-Of-Web-Shopping/145689 Invite your friend, the search engine spider to every webpage on your e-commerce site! This article covers making all your e-commerce site webpages search engine friendly and optimized. Just imagine you had a birthday party, you cleaned up your house, put your best clothes on, got the cake out, put up your decorations and got all that food and drink out. Prior to this you sent out your coloured invitations on glossy paper, but at the last minute, there, under a pile of papers and a rather dozy sleeping cat. Shock! Horror! You realise you forgot to send out your invitations! http://www.articlesphere.com/Article/Making-Search-Engine-Friendly-E-commerce-Websites/145460 Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.articlesphere.com/Article/Making-Search-Engine-Friendly-E-commerce-Websites/145460 Security in an e-commerce website needs to be a major consideration when developing an e-commerce website or software. A developer needs to be aware of all the security considerations when designing a site. With e-commerce becoming more commonplace these days, the number of security attacks is certainly increasing. Paranoia is a healthy thing for e-commerce site developers, we need to keep up to gate with security issues, and keep our ears and eyes open. Though the following loopholes are serious, the following loopholes if present are easily fixed. Listed below are some security consider http://www.articlesphere.com/Article/E-Commerce-Security---Plugging-the-Security-Holes/145459 Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.articlesphere.com/Article/E-Commerce-Security---Plugging-the-Security-Holes/145459 We're all heard about the cost to a business of shoplifting, how a certain percentage of a shops retail stock will disappear without ever going out through the till. Thieves head into a store, look out for hidden weaknesses in the environment and walks off with an unknown amount of merchandise, all without getting detected. Its a really simple thing to do for those with no conscience, but surely in this electronic age, this can't happen with e-commerce websites? Wrong! Unfortunately this can happen in a minority of cases, but it is preventable. What many business fail to understand in th http://www.articlesphere.com/Article/Watch-out--E-Shoplifters-About-/145458 Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.articlesphere.com/Article/Watch-out--E-Shoplifters-About-/145458 It just amazes me, that sometimes we have to really think outside the square box and radically get back to basics and really think about what were doing. You know what I mean, getting, the basic factual objectives in place and really putting things in place from a basic perspective for a customer. http://www.articlesphere.com/Article/E-Commerce-Design---Back-to-Basics/145457 Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.articlesphere.com/Article/E-Commerce-Design---Back-to-Basics/145457 Cash-on-delivery system is out for a long time now. Credit cards are definitely in. Most online businesses have explored this means to augment their income from online payments. This system has also made the the collection and tracking of payments easier and faster. This system has encouraged more merchants to try their luck in the cyberspace. http://www.articlesphere.com/Article/Online-Payment-Awareness/143271 Tue, 27 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.articlesphere.com/Article/Online-Payment-Awareness/143271 The good news is that there are literally thousands of shopping cart solutions out there; some free, others paid. The bad news is that too many choices make it difficult to pick the right shopping cart software. So what should you keep in mind before choosing an ecommerce shopping cart software? http://www.articlesphere.com/Article/Ecommerce-Shopping-Cart-Software/143223 Tue, 27 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.articlesphere.com/Article/Ecommerce-Shopping-Cart-Software/143223 You have more then likely used shopping cart software when you've bought items online. An ecommerce shopping cart makes purchasing items simple for customers, while keeping things easy to manage on the side of the seller also. http://www.articlesphere.com/Article/Shopping-Cart-Software-Keeps-Things-Easy-To-Manage/141633 Wed, 21 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.articlesphere.com/Article/Shopping-Cart-Software-Keeps-Things-Easy-To-Manage/141633 Deciding which piece of ecommerce software to use initially seems quite difficult. However, our preferred ecommerce software can be purchased can run an online shopping cart and storefront software with little unnecessary hardship. http://www.articlesphere.com/Article/Ecommerce-Software-Is-Vital-To-The-Success-Of-Your-Internet-Business/137613 Fri, 02 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.articlesphere.com/Article/Ecommerce-Software-Is-Vital-To-The-Success-Of-Your-Internet-Business/137613 The trend towards using services as offered by Sourcing Companies for online projects is on the rise. The huge task of planning, controlling and actually finalising extensive web projects can be a task too much to handle and the issue of costs spiraling out of control might sound for many too familiar. In this article, we list the three main benefits of hiring a Sourcing Company and explain how it can help you to get it right from the beginning. http://www.articlesphere.com/Article/The-Benefits-Of-Choosing-A-Sourcing-Company-For-Your-Online-Project/137524 Fri, 02 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.articlesphere.com/Article/The-Benefits-Of-Choosing-A-Sourcing-Company-For-Your-Online-Project/137524 In today's world, online businesses have become very popular. Things are easier for online businesses because of electronic commerce. There are thousands of web sites online which sell products and services. Today, one can buy almost anything with just the click of a mouse. http://www.articlesphere.com/Article/Shopping-Cart-Software-For-Your-Business/133154 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.articlesphere.com/Article/Shopping-Cart-Software-For-Your-Business/133154 Whether the online store that you are visiting sells merchandise, a service, or a combination of the two, the best piece of technology that will make the shopping experience smoother and less confusing for you and your customer is shopping cart software. http://www.articlesphere.com/Article/Shopping-Cart-Software-Will-Help-Your-Customer-Service/133005 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.articlesphere.com/Article/Shopping-Cart-Software-Will-Help-Your-Customer-Service/133005