Kidson Talks | The E-commerce Chemist

Well hairfreax needed a revamp, and with the launch of Cubecart 4, I decided to do just that.
Cube 4 at a minimum (keeping the copyright notices) ~ £78 with the VAT added (subject to exchange rate as the price is quoted in dollars)
Your website needs to be secure, so with a £14 SSL certificate from [...]

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Designing within the constraints of a store front (notably Marketworks and Channeladvisor in the UK) can be tricky, but some designers don’t let anything get in their way:

http://www.cybercheckout.co.uk/ is a channeladvisor store designed by Sell-it-smart who have made this table based basic store look and feel like a real website.
More examples are Grapevinehill who have [...]

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Avon is still going strong with its catalogue based army of representatives, but I got Joe Browns autumn issue though the post this morning, and also the Boden catalogue through. With the demise of Index and Gratten of the 90’s (you don’t see much of that now) have catalogue mail shots married with their [...]

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Now your facebook profile will be indexed in google:
Since your search privacy settings are set to “Everyone,” you now have a public search listing. This means that friends who aren’t yet on Facebook will be able to search for you by name from our Welcome page. Public Search Listings may only include names and profile [...]

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Find out your eBay neutral/negative percentage in the last 90 days. Remember if you get over5%, you are bad, ba, bad and you might risk suspension or restriction depending on which eBay group you happen to fall into…
see this post for more details :
eBay Trust and Safety Get Serious - neutrals are now negatives!

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My cousin has been a PA to the stars in Dubai…..well to managers at Hewlett Packard and Dell for the past 13 years, but has now decided to come back to the UK in the Spring. The cats have their passports so it is a serious move. Jane is going to set up a ‘Virtual [...]

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When you are find tuning your Google Adwords account say, you follow the few top tips from Google University:
- Create Ads around keywords for example ‘Red Size 3 Shoes’ and link to the relevant products or category on your site.
- Organise you ad groups to match your product catalogue organisation, using the category tree and [...]

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You can now get this blog feed as a widget!
Kidsontalks Widgetbox Shenanigans
Checkout the translate this page widget underneath my RSS feeds. Keeping myself international!

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If your messing with your DNS settings, it can take 72 hours to see if what you have done is right, and the same amount of time to correct a mistake. Here is a quick guide to masking your domain using the cname function in your DNS settings.
Rule 1: Do not touch your ‘MX’ records, [...]

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Did a bit more on this page:
Choosing a starting point - Your e-commerce platform.
In general there are three options:
1. A site hosted and created by a company for example Shopify
2. A site created for you but it is hosted on your own server space for example Cubecart
3. An Open Source Shopping Cart such as Oscommerce
Pro’s [...]

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