Kidson Talks | The E-commerce Chemist

Webcopy carefully crafted in plain English can improve a readers comprehension. You want your customers to understand what you are telling them don’t you?
Here are a few guidelines to plain English:
1. Make the average sentence length 15 to 20 words.
2. Use words your customers are likely to understand. Try not to abbreviate or use extensive [...]

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Developing persona’s of your customers can be a tricky and long process for a small business. Creating persona’s of your typical customer base can help you with the navigation, construction and wording of your site. You need to answer the questions your customer and direct them appropriately has so they will take the action you [...]

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Call to Action is a book all about customer conversions, how to get them and most importantly, how to persuade your customers to buy or take the action you want.
They also have a blog : Future Now’s Marketing Optimization Blog
If you are tired of text book internet marketing reads, this plays out like a compelling [...]

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Not all online shoppers are created alike. They all have different goals and strategies for their online shopping which relate to different needs. When developing an online service or e-commerce store you need to try and cater for as many of these types of shopper as possible. You can use basic ‘shopper models’ to organize [...]

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Well I have paid up and I am going back to part time study at the OU. This will mean 2 years of part time study to start getting my foot in the programming door with respect to web applications.
The course material will include client and server side application development as well as open source. [...]

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