A dead link, also known as a dangling link and a broken link, is defined as a link which leads to an error page or a web page or server which is unavailable. While the occasional dead link may not seem like too much of a big deal all it takes is a single dead link to lose a customer.
Easter time is right around the corner and people are brimming with spring fever. They’re in the mood for a bit of sprucing up, a fresh change, and spring cleaning. It’s also the perfect time to take a look at your ecommerce store and see where you can cater to your customer’s needs during this holiday season.
Here are a few ideas to dress up your e-store for the Easter holidays.
#1 Analyze your store from your customer’s perspective. What products do you offer that could have an impact on their life during the Easter season? For example, if you sell kitchen equipment and supplies then can you package items for cooking an Easter dinner?
If you sell home organization supplies, can you tap into the spring cleaning phenomenon and package/promote items with that theme? If you sell pet supplies, can you create a new page with an Easter/spring theme? Brainstorm the possibilities based on what your customer’s need and how you can improve their shopping experience and their life.
#2 Consider donating some of your Easter profits to a charity. It can be something like Easter seals or any charity close to your heart.
#3 Host a clearance sale and call it spring cleaning! Everyone can relate to the spring cleaning concept and it’s a great way to draw attention to your store. Put things on spring cleaning clearance and get rid of your backed up inventory.
#4 Consider giving your website a bit of a face lift for spring. Add appropriate colors (pastels or bright spring like colors) to your fonts and graphics.
#5 Sponsor a contest or sweepstakes. For example, have a best spring cleaning project and let website visitors vote on the winner. Or the best Easter dinner menu and again let visitors vote. This is a great way to get people involved and also a wonderful way to generate content and exposure for your website. Contest entrants can send in videos or share their stories.
These are just a few ideas to get your creative juices flowing. Easter is a time for both religious reverence and for ‘spring fever.’ It’s a time of renewal and rebirth. Determine the best approach for your customers and prospects and help them embrace the spirit of the season.
When it comes to building, managing and owning a store, Yahoo merchant solutions are a perfect solution for aspiring entrepreneurs who are looking for a step-by-step solution and one-stop shopping. Yahoo is a large entity as you no doubt already know, and their merchant solutions are thorough and well established. If you’re considering starting an online store, check out Yahoo and read through the following steps to determine if it’s the right choice for you.
No another guide. Well that may be but having a lot of background knowledge on a subject is pretty essential don’t you think? Especially if your talking about an investment option that you will have to shell out some money and have decent expectations on ROI. So I present to you my simple guide to shopping carts. A short and sweet write-up about what your shopping cart solution should be.
Adding a membership site to your current business is a great way to increase that bottom line and make more money. And just about any business model or type of website can benefit from a membership site. Let’s take a look at how to set up your own membership site.
#1 – Understand how membership sites make money. Members are the ultimate captive audience. Better than a lead list, your members have proven they’re interested; they’ve practically committed themselves to being loyal customers. That means each and every new product or service you offer is going to have a stronger conversion rate with your members.
Repurposing your content makes good business sense. It’s a good way to squeeze out as much value as possible from your current content. And repurposing also helps your customers by providing fantastic content in a variety of ways.
Here are a few ideas to help you repurpose your content:
Recycle. There’s no need to just use great content once. Recycling your content benefits everyone in a positive way. A good way to do this is to think about each piece of content and how you can reuse it.
Many people view the direct sales industry as having a limited market. Direct sales consultants begin with their friends and family, reach into their community but eventually the market is tapped, right?
They’ve run out of new customers and prospects and everyone and their brother has hosted a party, business is over. However that couldn’t be further from the truth. The Internet offers a limitless number of consumers.
It seems like everyone and their mother (and grandmother!) has a website these days. That’s why it’s important to be able to build a quality website to help promote your business and sell your products. Here are ten quick tips to help even a novice build a quality site.
When it comes to building a website, your domain name could make it or break it. A catchy domain name can help people remember who you are and easily find you to give them what they’re looking for. By contrast, a bad domain name can make your website hard to find, so they’ll find someone else or give up trying. Here are some quick and easy tips to help you pick the name that’s best for you.
I was wondering what to write about in the early hours this morning but I found that a healthy dose of rather strange spam in my email today held the answer. The subject to one of my emails read:
“Reanimate that dead fish!”
You’ve got to admit that it’s intriguing if nothing else and I hope that this is a new breed of spam. But I figured that we’d look at what to do with one of your sites when it’s time to reanimate it. The sales might started to run flat, traffic might have dropped, and this is a major site that HAS to pull it’s own weight. So what do you do…?
Learning about CSS…
A short (but good) tutorial on CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
http://spider-food.net/css.html
HTML tricks and tutorials…
Over 50 tips and tricks to help you deal with or take advantage of HTML’s little weirdnesses.
http://www.bignosebird.com/html.shtml
Free software tools…
Free tools to help you build and maintain your site.
http://www.bignosebird.com/tools.shtml
Java Script tricks…
A small collection of popular scripts.
http://www.bignosebird.com/javas.shtml
HTML Tag Guide…
One thing that I always recommend webmasters do in order to succeed and help secure their place in the future of this business, is to get into a hefty amount of research. One of the best forms of research, that’s always proved invaluable to me and that I couldn’t have made my money I have without, is to check out the sites that are already out there.
