Check out the 2013 Web Store Checklist to Make This Year a Banner Sales Year

Now that the holiday season is winding now, it’s the right time to put your thoughts down on paper as to what went really well…and what needs improvement. To get you started, we’ve compiled a checklist of 24 things to consider for the upcoming year to better enhance your customer’s shopping experience and make this a banner sales year. Here’s the first five points…

1. Ensure that items you’re carrying online are in stock. Manually updating item availability is a drain—consider processes or solution that will do this automate this job for you. (more…)

Make sure all retail systems are GO for Black Friday and Cyber Monday

As with brick-and-mortar stores, Black Friday and Cyber Monday are critical days for B2C sales. Holiday e-commerce revenues account for up to 40 percent of annual sales for many companies. Be sure your website performs reliably on all types of browsers, mobile devices, etc., to maximize sales during these revenue intensive days.

Being proactive to prevent problems- it’s not too late

You are reviewing site operations daily to better understand the changes in traffic and to be proactive about solving problems before they turn into outages, delays, or worse yet inventory or supplier problems.

Online retailers must also focus on profiling and optimization for holiday readiness. Studies continue to show correlations between page load speeds and website responsiveness to increased revenue.  Black Friday and Cyber Monday are two days you want to be (more…)

Microsoft Dynamics & Sage Customers Can Set Up an Integrated eCommerce Web Store in Cyber Time

There are more options for creating an e-commerce site than ever before. E-commerce has made it possible for entrepreneurs to extend their reach farther than they could have ever imagined.

The fastest, least expensive way for Microsoft Dynamics and Sage users to launch a fully integrated online store is to connect today’s leading web-based ecommerce platforms, like Magento Go or Shopify. These solutions are full featured, yet cost effective and when connected to Microsoft Dynamics or Sage using nChannel can automate item population, inventory synchronization, enable Microsoft Dynamics or Sage to collect web orders and even web customer data. (more…)

Why Your Cyber Monday Strategy Should Include eBay

In Australia, eBay is the number one marketplace shoppers hit when they purchase online.  Amazon isn’t even a distant third according to eBay Consulting Expert Miles Clemans of InDemand.  Miles and Nerada Stern cofounded InDemand to meet the rigorous demands of companies in Australia that capture significant sales revenue on eBay AU.

While in the states, Amazon captures mindshare for retailers and distributors who use them for listing products as well as for their logistics services – eBay rarely gets a second look.  Incorporating eBay into your sales strategy can yield big results – and here’s why: (more…)

New Web Stores Can Optimize Sales, Eliminate Duplicate Manual Tasks & Reduce Costs

Whether your inventory is sizable or growing quickly, or you’re ramping up for the holidays, saving time and controlling costs are important. Ordering items, evaluating how much to keep on hand, how much you should have at any given time, and what the carrying costs are, is a year round process.

It’s not uncommon for the POS, Accounting or ERP system to have inventory functions to help you do this – selecting which one and how to get all your systems to play together nicely is a common problem.

Manually updating each system is perceived as easier and cheaper. During the holiday selling season there is no time to download and manually key (or rekey) orders, keep inventory in sync and populate web sites with item data, let alone update order status and maintain great customer service. (more…)