Kidson Talks | The E-commerce Chemist

I have decided to become and eBay education specialist, I do miss my ‘eBay meets Business’ training days and would like to train up and be certified by eBay so I can go and convert hordes of budding entrepreneurs to the eBay way. eBay is a great way to start and online business, the marketplace [...]

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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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Right, its getting close so what do you need to do? You haven’t started yet? Thought so. So lets get cracking and here’s a few things to get on with or you can use it as a basic guide. It’s generic as every business is different and every product type moves differently. This post leans [...]

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Well on Tuesday evening I completed my new CubeCart 4 store, and by Thursday evening it had made back its purchase price. I doubt there are many systems that I could say it takes less that three days to see return on investment. This includes the price of the security certificate too.
A small targeted adwords [...]

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Google site mapping is a free service, and for those who do not like to deal with python script, generating said sitemap should also be free.
If you have a site under 500 links, try: Create your Google Sitemap Online - XML Sitemaps
but if you want more links, try: GSiteCrawler which is an application to download [...]

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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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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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I had an email from Merchant Advantage and they wanted to put their software on my radar screen as an product feed management platform for the small to medium sized business. There product Channel Management Lite only costs $145 (£73) a month and has no transaction fees and no set up costs. This offering can [...]

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A email came in today regarding what to do when you have brought an e-commerce platform, sold the earth and delivered a small island. How do you prevent this from happening at the sales stage?
Bad Web Companies are plenty, and it can be hard to sort the wheat from the chaff but there are a [...]

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