[2002-02-27] Successful Dot-Com Offers Strategies for Success
(ARA) - Lost amidst billions of dollars in squandered venture capital funding and endless reports from network anchors about the macabre state of e-commerce lies a seemingly overlooked fact: Not all of today's dot-coms use red ink in the accounting ledger.
[2002-02-25] Don't Get Taken by a Fake Distributor
When you're a small business starting out on the Internet, or even when you're an established 'Net business, you need Drop Shippers. Why? Because working with drop shippers eliminates the need for you to carry expensive inventories. You don't have to rent a warehouse, hire employees, establish accounts with UPS and FedEx, etc. You can sell the best brand names on earth from your home computer, and make good money at it. Distributors who drop ship send the products you sell directly from their warehouse to your customer, with your business name on it. All you do it take the order from your customer and pass it to the distributor. You keep the difference between the wholesale price the distributor charges you, and the retail price you sell to your customer for.
[2002-02-20] Viral Marketing - Secrets Revealed
Viral Marketing means to give away ebooks and e-articles freely so that it spreads like a virus exponentially. In the ebooks and e-articles, we give links to our site and a short bio or resource box declaring who we are.
[2002-02-04] The Dilemma of Shipping and Handling
In the middle of last year (June 2001), Amazon.com made headlines by announcing that they were going to offer free shipping and handling for any purchases over $99. Is this a trend for the future? Maybe...but only for the rich. While Amazon's offer brought millions of dollars worth of publicity to the company, not too many of us regular ecommerce website owners can afford to offer free shipping and handling. The latest issue of eMarketer's "eCommerce: B2C & Demographics" emphatically states that shipping and handling is a "sizable" business expense. The online metrics company, Jupiter, stated that 45% of ecommerce website owners loose money on shipping and handling.