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Two Different Ways To Use Press Releases For Marketing Your Ecommerce Website 2008-06-09 09:51:30 Get In The Newspapers!
A press release is a written announcement that seeks to draw media attention to a specific event or product launch. When you are doing something big in your business sending out press releases can get you great coverage in the media sending you more visitors and potential customers to your ecommerce website.
Press
[...] Read more:Marketing
Free Dropshipper List - UK Dropship Companies 2008-06-02 09:48:36 Here is a list of UK based dropshippers. All of the websites below are free to join and based in the UK. Each link opens in a new window.
DropshipOnline
Eyewear Systems Ltd
Pretty in Pink Clubwear
Dropship Services
Wholesale Knives
Grab A Gift
Emporium UK
1000and1
iPhones 2U
Electronic Wholesalers 4U
Wholesale Film Cells
Sourcing House Ltd
Help is at Hand
Fe-Lines
Beauty Kisses
Sexshop 365
1on1dr Read more:Companies
Trying Something Different To Stand Out 2008-05-28 05:49:36 Stand Out By Being Different
In order to move your business forward you often need to be trying different things, this can improve your existing practices and may make you stand out from competition. Whether it is the images you use to sell your products, the length of descriptions or even the price.
This week I thought [...] Read more:Stand
Why Now Is An Ideal Time to Invest In Your Ecommerce Website 2008-05-20 05:44:25 Want To Earn More Money? Now Is The Time To Invest!
Due to the rising cost of living many of us are having to spend less money on other parts of our lives, one of those areas may be the amount of money you are investing in your business. With the economy being pretty gloomy at the moment [...]
7 Ways NOT To Promote Your Online Ecommerce Shop 2008-05-12 05:54:05 Marketing No No's!
Once you are up and running you should spend a very large chunk of your time promoting your ecommerce shop. In a business seminar I was once told 75% of the time spent on your business should be on marketing!
Getting highly targetted visitors to your ecommerce website isn’t easy (unless you’ve got thousands of [...] Read more:Promote
Getting Your First Ecommerce Order Gets Your Business Ball Rolling! 2008-05-06 04:35:14 The First
Customer Payment!
No matter what type of business you run getting momentum is important, this drives your business on and fills you with confidence. Getting your first order is a fantastic feeling, the small amount of profit doesn’t matter - it is the fact that a web surfer has found your website from the [...] Read more:Order
, Business
, Rolling
How To Spot Middle-Men & Dropship Scams 2008-04-28 07:10:14 Avoid The Baddies!
What is a middle-man? A middle-man is a website which claims to be a dropshipper, however in reality they are not the actual dropshipper, they take your order and pass it on to the real dropshipper adding their own profit margins in the process. This may not be illegal but it is bad for [...]
How Much To Pay For An Established Ecommerce Website? 2008-04-21 08:32:32 How Much Money Should I Pay?
Dropshipping products from your own ecommerce website has massive benefits compared to selling at auction sites. Higher profit margins, clear branding, a valuable business asset, higher customer trust and basic sales management are just some of the benefits of having your own website.
If you don’t want to or haven’t got the knowledge/skills of how to Read more:Established
Measure Your Conversion Rate - Targets 2008-04-14 06:17:52 Calculate Ecommerce Conversion
Rates
What Is Conversion Rate?
Your conversion rate is the percentage of your visitors who buy from you. It is worked out by dividing the amount of sales you make by the amount of visitors you receive and multiplying it by 100. If this week you made 30 sales and you had 2000 visitors to your [...] Read more:Measure
Ebay Alternatives: Auction Sites, Classified Ads, Ecommerce Website 2008-04-07 08:12:17 Sellers eBay Alternatives
Long-term I don’t think eBay is a viable way to dropship products with real success. You may always be able to make small profits from it but you wouldn’t be able to expand into a bigger, stronger and more profitable business. The competition, fees and product management required is too high to allow this. [...] Read more:Auction
, Sites
, Classified
, Classified Ads
5 Easy Ways To Increase Ebay Conversions 2008-03-31 10:45:03 Increase Auction Conversions
Long term I always recommend dropshipping from your own website rather than auction and classified websites, mainly because of profit margins. However using auction sites is a great way to build up a customer database and get used to running an online business. eBay is the website of choice for the majority of dropshippers.
Here are 5 really [...]
Guide To Listing On Google Product Search 2008-03-25 07:23:38 Google Product Search
‘Google Product Search’ is a shopping index which allows shoppers to browse and search products for sale online. It is a very easy tool for shoppers to use. It is also a great tool for sellers to use because it is free (no charges for uploading items, no charges for traffic, there is never any charges!), it [...] Read more:Guide
, Google
5 Reasons Dropshipping Is So Good 2008-03-23 14:38:59 Save Time Not Packing
All business platforms have negatives and positives. Dropshipping has its share of negatives, but the positives definitely outweigh the negatives. Here are 5 positive factors about dropshipping compared to running a business via traditional bulk buying and selling.
You have the ability to start an online store with very little inital investment. Every business [...] Read more:Reasons
The New Look Dropship Blog 2008-03-23 14:08:25 New Design
It has been over 4 months since the blog started, traffic continues to grow and I’ve acquired the DropshipBlog.com domain, so don’t worry if you forget the extension of our website address! For these reasons I felt it was time for a cleaner, simpler and more professional design.
First Visit?
If this is your first visit then [...]
Hunter, Grafter, Schmoozer or Influencer? 2008-03-18 05:35:13 After yesterdays excitement on the markets I wanted to get back to what this blog is about - you developing your ecommerce business. I read an article in The Sunday Times at the weekend which was about finding out your personality type. This can help you structure your business by playing to your strengths. I’ve scanned the article [...] Read more:Hunter
Stock Markets Fall - Start Of Recession? 2008-03-17 09:00:10 At lunch today the top story on BBC news was the dramatic drops of global stock markets throughout the morning. All major banks have taken a battering. The FTSE has lost about 3.5% today as I write this, the US markets open shortly and are expected to open deep in to the red.
Is this the start of a recession?
The credit crunch now seems to be [...] Read more:Stock
, Markets
, Start
, Recession
, Stock Markets
Why Invest Your Time In DropshipBlog? 2008-03-11 08:03:31 The Year Ahead
This is now the 14th post on the blog, so now feels like the time to give it a bit more of a personality! Blogs are generally very personal because the authors behind the site are what give the blog its ‘voice’. Everytime you visit any website you invest your personal time so it should be [...] Read more:Why Invest
Subscribing To Bloggers RSS Feeds 2008-03-06 07:46:54 RSS is a format for delivering regularly changing web content. Using RSS feeds you can regularly stay informed on the latest content added to a blog or news website. Including DropshipBlog.co.uk (our feed).
Why Use RSS?
The main benefit is saving time, using an RSS reader you can instantly see all the new stories/posts added to the websites [...]
Use DropKicker For Free Dropship Info! 2008-02-26 05:22:00 Before ordering with any dropshipper (or paying a joining fee) you want to try and find out as much info as possible. You can do this by typing the companys name into Google and seeing what comes up, or by visiting a dropship/wholesale forum and posting a message to see what others have experienced.
Dropkicker
Now you can add one more resource [...]
Customer Confidence = Increased Sales! 2008-02-19 05:02:45 When buying products online from you the consumer must have total trust in your website/company. If there is anything they are unsure of they will leave your site and buy from a competitor they are comfortable with. There are several boxes that if you can’t tick then the orders won’t come in.
This article has ways in which you [...] Read more:Customer
, Confidence
, Sales
Why Making Money From Dropshipping Has Become Even More Attractive! 2008-06-16 11:07:00 Don't Let The Economic Downturn Deter You
Lots of focus is currently on the gloomy economy, I seem to hear/read the phrase ‘credit crunch’ a couple of times every day! With companies listed on the FTSE losing value fast, retailers complaining of ‘tough trading conditions’ and capital harder to come by you would think now is not an ideal time to start up [...] Read more:Money
, Become
Progress Is When You Raise Your Expectations 2008-06-30 05:33:40 What Are Your Expectations?
Just a short post today to get you thinking! Jack Nicklaus once said:
“Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one’s levels of aspiration and expectation.”
I read this quote whilst watching the golf yesterday afternoon and realised how true it is, and not just for golf but for everything.
So what are your [...]
Watch Free Business Videos To Increase Your Knowledge 2008-06-23 09:56:06 People learn in different ways, some people learn better by reading whilst others learn better by being shown diagrams and other images. Reading articles, blogs (like this one!), business forums etc is a great way to learn, but watching business videos is also a great way to learn. You may find you learn more and take in [...] Read more:Business
, Knowledge
, Watch Free
Use Yahoo Answers For Quick Answers To Your Q’s 2008-07-14 12:57:36 Sometimes you need a question answering quickly, sometimes you need the answer now in order to carry on with what you are doing. How do you get a quick answer?
You’ve searched through google but can’t find the answer, you could post your question up on a forum but you know it is going to take hours (sometimes days) until someone [...] Read more:Yahoo
, Quick
You Have To Be Involved To Take Advantage! Business Opportunities 2008-07-07 08:40:52 To Find The Key To Success You Have To Be Involved
When stories are told about successful people you often hear others saying “you’re so lucky“. To take advantage of opportunities you have to be involved where the opportunity arises.
Other people will say you have been lucky to have found a great online business opportunity and make money from it, but the people saying [. Read more:Advantage
, Business
, Opportunities
, Business Opportunities
Ecommerce Study: Investing In Ecommerce Despite The Times 2008-07-28 10:01:48 Research Study
An ecommerce study called “No Retreat! Investing
in Ecommerce Despite The Times
” has recently been published with some interesting results, the study is by Acquity Group, a Chicago based consulting firm.
We all know the current economic climate is gloomy in the US and UK. Despite this the report has found companies are continuing to [...]
Chinavasion - Worldwide Electronics Dropshipper Review 2008-07-21 08:17:35 Chinavasion
In June I published a free dropshipper list of companies based in the UK who ship to UK customers. Now I want to look a little more at companies who are based abroad but ship to the UK and worldwide. There currently isn’t very many so I’m going to look more in-depth at the suppliers rather [...] Read more:Worldwide
A Quick Surf Around The Blogosphere 2008-08-03 16:04:28 Life's A Beach!
I’m going away tomorrow morning on holiday (fly 8 hours from now to be precise!!) so I haven’t got time to do a post this week. So you still have something quality to read this week ive put links below to some of my favourite recent blog entries to do with online business.
Getting the best price for your [...] Read more:Quick
, Blogosphere
Give Yourself A Boost Now By Reviewing Targets! 2008-09-01 06:44:45 Don't Be Afraid To Move Your Targets
At the start of every year I set myself a load of targets related to all aspects of life - from golf to business. I recommed you do the same if you aren’t already. This is a much better way to achieve your aims then by doing ‘new years resolutions’, which [...] Read more:Yourself
, Boost
, Reviewing
Change Your Personal Life & Instantly Improve Your Business 2008-08-25 07:25:10 Spending Money On Your Personal
Life Can Help Your Business
. New DJ Equipment Is My Latest Investment :)
Running your own business is different to working for someone else, when working for yourself your business and personal life become very much connected, especially when working from home.
Is it possible to change your personal life and instantly improve [...] Read more:Change
, Improve
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