Kidson Talks | The E-commerce Chemist

Redundancy just before Christmas is not pleasant as the job market is not at its best, specially if you have had no warning.
As well as training to be an eBay education specialist I have secured consultancy and web development in the last few weeks of December to take me though to January.
In pure on-line entrepreneurial [...]

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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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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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That is what it was called last week in my office anyway. Google has made major tweaks to its page rank algorithm. Hairfreax has gone from 3 to 2, mainly because of changing the link structure on the site and killing my banner exchanges. Hey, I put them back this morning! I was expecting a [...]

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Thinking of driving traffic and getting into affiliates? Companies such as Tradedoubler can be a little expensive for the smaller business, so I have been investing time in this affiliate management software by JROX
This is a nifty script for you to manage your own affiliate program. I have started ‘Toxic Girl Alternative Affiliates‘ on toxicgirl.co.uk [...]

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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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Colour symbolism and psychology refer to the use of colour as a symbol or emotional effect throughout cultures, religions, art and nature. We can also use that psychology to choose a colour scheme for web or eBay design using its effect on customer behaviour and feeling.
Grey – Grey is often used as a subtle [...]

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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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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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When choosing a domain host you need to make sure you have advanced DNS control so you can CNAME using a text name and not just an mask to an IP.
Text based domain names are just for us humans to read, your machine reads the IP address which is a set of numbers example 123.456.789.10
Every [...]

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