Archive for the "E-Commerce" Category

Sort by:

7 Steps to Starting your Internet Business

Regardless of what type of internet business you plan to start, the process is the same. Once you’ve set up your business, there are some steps that you can eliminate, like your start up. However, if you follow the other steps repeatedly, you can generate mulitiple streams of income, which will increase your profits.

Read more on 7 Steps to Starting your Internet Business…

Not With MY Money You’re Aren’t!

Millions and millions of dollars have been spent by advertisers, exhorting businesses to get web sites. During the dot-com boom, the media jumped on the Internet bandwagon as well. And there are success stories. Yet fewer than half of the businesses up and down Main Street have taken their advice seriously. Why not? The answer will surprise you – until you think about it.

Read more on Not With MY Money You’re Aren’t!…

Heather’s Tips for Optimizing Your Web Site’s Positioning

Heather Lloyd-Martin’s presentation about successful search engine copywriting, was held on the second day of the 2006 Search Engine Strategies conference in New York.

By then I had concluded that I would focus my comments in all my stories) on the needs of mainstream established companies-since those are the people I know the most about.

Read more on Heather’s Tips for Optimizing Your Web Site’s Positioning…

Junior’s Cheesecakes, From Brooklyn to San Francisco Through Cyberspace

When I interviewed Kevin Rosen of Junior’s Cheesecake here in NYC it was to ask him what he and his family want the Internet to do for them and their business.

Read more on Junior’s Cheesecakes, From Brooklyn to San Francisco Through Cyberspace…

Woman Owned Company is Covering Los Angeles and Beyond

Modern technologies like the Internet have revolutionized the way many of us do business, and have opened up many opportunities for new enterprise.

And yet, all of these innovations pale in comparison with the “old-fashioned” values of hard work, fair business, and sheer strength personality.

Read more on Woman Owned Company is Covering Los Angeles and Beyond…

Examining Your Business Plan

All great projects, businesses and methods of accomplishing something begin with a plan. A plan is essential in the formulation and organization of ideas. All buildings or houses need a plan or blueprint. To build a bridge or a road you need a plan. To write an article one must draft an outline to organize one’s thoughts. If you don’t plan beforehand you’ll end up with lots of unorganized ideas and you’ll have spent a lot of time achieving nothing. You need a plan before you can build.

Read more on Examining Your Business Plan…

How To Build An Effective Internet Marketing Strategy

Marketing has been around for ages. Internet marketing is fairly new. Internet marketing strategy, while different in terms of the venue in which it takes place, is not all that unique compared to other marketing strategies. The principles that work with internet marketing strategy are actually the same ones that marketing experts have always used. And there are many schools of thouts regarding the basics of a marketing strategy. The basic four P’s approach is the most popular. That is Product, Price, Promotion, and Positioning are what you should consider when formulating your internet marketing strategy. However, there are a couple of factors that are somewhat unique to internet marketing. And focusing on them can make the different between a successful strategy and a weak one.

Read more on How To Build An Effective Internet Marketing Strategy…

How Can a Drug Store Founded in 1838 Survive in The 21st.Century?

When my daughter and I meet for lunch in Greenwich Village, we always pass by Bigelow’s Apothecary.

I asked her if she shopped there, and she remarked that their Alchemy mascara is the best ever. (I had to take her word for it.)

Read more on How Can a Drug Store Founded in 1838 Survive in The 21st.Century?…

Building Your Own Busisness:The Most Important Step to GETTING STARTED

Start with a very detailed business summary. Your business summary should give a good description of the entire business plan from budget to target audience to required equipment. Lets face it you cant run an online business without a compute. After you have completed the business summary you should begin to list the objectives or the goals that you want to accomplish through the business. Next and perhaps most importantly, you should develop your marketing plan. The marketing plan will address all the specifics of the business. When developing the marketing strategy you should consider the following:

Read more on Building Your Own Busisness:The Most Important Step to GETTING STARTED…

A Synergy of Business Strengths

In 2003 I interviewed Steve Antisdel for a story about how they were embracing the Internet at the family furniture store.

I had been contacted by a trade association he was a member of and told that he was one of their most forward thinking members.

Read more on A Synergy of Business Strengths…