Are you building a website? You’ll likely need to get yourself a domain name to go with it (unless you already have one). I’m going to explain how to reserve for yourself (or your company, non-profit, or whatever organization you represent) a domain name that you can use as the “home base” for whatever it …
There are lots of ways for online merchants to accept payments. Stripe is one of them. Setting up a Stripe payment processing account is one of the easiest ways to start accepting payments online, although there are several cons for using Stripe, including the comparatively high percentage of your sales they take as a commission …
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I’ve used BigCommerce for awhile as my ecommerce sales platform. I currently host my medical products store (ProHealthcareProducts.com) on the BigCommerce platform. While the BigCommerce shopping cart system offers a lot of great functionality and has solid performance, it has its limitations. One of the most obvious of those limitations is the default search feature …
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The HubSpot CRM is an effective marketing and sales automation tool for small and large businesses. Here is an introduction to its features and pricing.
Marketing your product, idea, or business on the internet is likely the most efficient way you can gain exposure, customers, and revenue. But what channels should you use?
Here is an overview of all the major internet marketing venues available.
In this article, I will be discussing topics associated with starting and growing a business. As an outline for this discussion, I will be using the manual for a course called Starting and Growing My Business for Self-Reliance, published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (also known as the LDS Church or …
Over 200 million people visit Amazon.com each month. Amazon’s web traffic is unique in that most of the people on that ecommerce are there with the intention of purchasing. Amazon has over 100 million Prime members, meaning they purchase a high percentage of the things they buy on a regular basis from Amazon. For anyone …
Twitter can be a great social media outlet for businesses, public personalities, professionals, and even just regular people, but it’s certainly not for everyone. If you’re one of those people who’s had enough of Twitter, and you’re ready to move on with your life, you can delete your Twitter account. Here’s how to do it. …
Article Summary For entrepreneurs and other business owners, having a registered trademark helps you to protect the intellectual property you’ve worked hard to create. The process of registering a trademark usually takes a year or longer, and typically cost about from $1,000 to $5,000 using a trademark attorney. The ultimate cost depends upon how difficult …
In the spring of 2008, the online sporting goods business my wife I had built and operated over the four previous years was growing and things were looking up for us. We were still inexperienced enough to not be considered experts at running a business by most professional standards. Almost everything we’d learned to make …
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