March 2008


E-Commerce03 Mar 2008 12:00 am

If you are selling products online, you will probably need ecommerce software. AmeriCommerce provides powerful shopping cart software and hosting. Their shopping cart software comes with many built-in features.

SEO is very important when you have an online store. You can make more sales by getting traffic from the search engines. AmeriCommerce understands the importance of SEO, and they even say on their website that their shopping cart is the most search engine friendly cart available.

Their software will also extensively log user activity, which you can use to better optimize your online store to increase your sales.

Another great feature is that you can manage multiple stores from one administration page.

They publish their phone number right on the homepage of their website, which is a sign of trustworthiness to me.

The shopping cart software can help you track inventory and manage prices. It can also keep track of sales and other records for you. So that will greatly help you manage your ecommerce business.

If you want to see AmeriCommerce’s shopping cart software in action, they have a list of featured clients on their website.

All in all, the AmeriCommerce shopping cart software seems like a really great product.

E-Payments02 Mar 2008 11:45 pm

I have a new tip for you today: Feel free to use third-party payment processors such as PayPal or Google Checkout.

You can get your own merchant account. If you process a lot of payments, it will probably be cheaper. But if you do not do that many, it may cost more because there is usually a lot of setup fees. Also, it takes a lot more technical knowledge.

For a newer and smaller internet business, you may think having your own merchant account will make you look more reliable. But it may scare potential customers, making them not buy from you. If your company does not have a big reputation, people may not want to give you their credit card numbers. Major third-party processors such as PayPal are trusted by customers.

I would recommend sticking with third-party processors until your business is big enough to warrant going through the trouble of getting your own merchant account.

What do you think?

Also, please note that I am not endorsing any specific company or processor. I personally use PayPal, but only because I believe it is most well-known to my customers. You want to do your own research, and find the payment processor that is best for your specific business.

Business Discussion02 Mar 2008 02:40 am

If you sell anything, you can generally benefit from leads. “Leads” usually refers to potential customers that you have a reason to believe would be especially interested in your product. For example, if you sell cars, leads would be people who have expressed a need to buy a new car. The Lead Dogs specialize in providing qualified lead generation for business-to-business sales.

The Lead Dogs will help you generate leads and then develop them into sales. They also work to qualify the leads to determine which ones are sales-ready.

One thing that seems especially good about The Lead Dogs is that they have worked with big companies and understand the importance of handling big leads. For some business models, thousands of dollars in revenue could rest on any given sale.

« Previous Page