Top Tools and Software to Manage and Boost Your Amazon Product Listings
Listing your products on Amazon as a third party seller can be very lucrative, when done right, even if you maintain a separate e-commerce website (in fact that’s exactly what the majority of sellers do). But it can be a lot of work. The good news is that there are increasing number of tools and…
5 Ways to Streamline Your Checkout To Boost Conversions
In order to increase conversions and sales, making it as easy as possible for your customers to pay is essential. This is especially true during the very busy holiday shopping months that are basically almost here. This is why it’s vital for your checkout page to be as fast, and yet still secure, as possible.…
Easy Ways to Make your Store More Trustworthy
Trust is everything. Without it, people won’t even consider purchasing your products. But here’s the problem: Trust is hard to build. And to make matters worse, it’s especially difficult to build online. Without genuine, face-to-face interaction, you have to rely on your retail website and social media to build trust instead. The holiday shopping season…
Adjusting Your Holiday Marketing Plans for COVID-19
We’re already at the end of September, which means it’s time to think about Thanksgiving and Christmas! Well, at least that’s the case if you’re a retail business looking to maximize your holiday sales. But, as if the topic wouldn’t be complex enough in any year, 2020 has thrown a wrench in everyone’s plans. How…
5 E-commerce Returns Best Practices To Boost Sales and Customer Loyalty
One major factor that dictates where e-commerce customers choose to shop is the existence or lack of a fair and comprehensive return policy. Implementing a great e-commerce return policy isn’t rocket science. Here are five best practices to reduce your e-commerce return rate and increase customer loyalty. Your e-commerce returns policy should be easy to…
What Are the Advantages of Mobile POS Systems for Flea Market and Craft Fair Vendors?
Point-of – sale software (POS) is in continuous development. Clunky cash registers can’t keep up. Brick-and -mortar stores are embracing leaner solutions running on mobile devices in lieu of complex installations costing thousands of dollars. But it’s not just retail stores that are interested in POS systems — online shop owners who sell at craft…
Top Tips for Composing Better Instagram Captions
Of all of the popular platforms retailers use for social media marketing purposes, Instagram is currently the most image driven. Therefore it makes sense that, when creating content to post on the site most people focus their attention on the image. However, the caption that can (and should) accompany each visual is important (even if…
Ancient Wisdom That Modern Retail Business Bloggers Will Love
Great content via a business blog is one way that retail businesses can attract both human and search bot traffic to their site. It is also an excellent way to build your brand and establish yourself as an expert in your field. What is not easy is creating that content, so most who try, us…
Is Your Retail Website’s Search Function Up to the Job?
We have a question for you. When is the last time you thought about your retail website’s product search functionality? No, not its place in the search results for its keywords, but the actual product search on the site itself, the method by which your potential customers search your inventory once they have arrived at…
Do You Have What it Takes To Run a Successful Retail Home Business?
The COVID-19 pandemic and the layoffs that have come along with it have left some people wondering if starting their own business might be a way to make up for their income loss and start a new career in a sector that has seen an uptick – rather than a downturn – in business since…