Author: Joe Warnimont

When it comes to finding niche products to sell online, randomness kills all.

Far too often we get stuck in the mindset that all you have to do is spend time brainstorming to randomly land on a few good ideas.

But here's what:

This approach may occasionally land you on a respectable product that sells well through an online store, but more often than not you end up with a product that's either too far ahead of its time (so it doesn't have a market yet) or a product that's in an overly-saturated market.

Neither of these situations work out for you since the potential for making money relies on consumers getting used to a product or you spending countless hours and dollars trying to break into an impenetrable market.

That's why you should focus on a more methodical approach to finding niche ideas for online business.

Continue reading “Mastering Niche Product Selection for Your Store: Your Step-by-Step Guide”

Here's a job title you never thought you would have you considered starting your ecommerce store: photographer.

Sure, you would have expected to be an accountant, marketer, salesperson, designer, and some of the many other roles you would have to fill, but photography is something most ecommerce marketers don't think of.

But studies show that photos have a tremendous impact on sales, so it's important that you learn how to take product photos.

Unfortunately, small and midsized ecommerce businesses don't have tons of money to spend on a fancy product photographer. Luckily, we have some product photography tricks to make your photos beautiful, somewhat easy to take, and inexpensive.

Continue reading “A Guide on How to Take Product Photos the Right Way”

On Ecommerce Platforms, we've gone through several ways to make an online marketplace like that of Etsy, ThemeForest, Sharedesk or even something for services like finding contractors or photographers.

Some of them work well, but it always seems like something's missing. Sometimes you find that the marketplace template isn't that flexible. Other times the platform doesn't allow for services, bartering, or free plans to try the platform out. That has all changed to a large extent with Arcadier.

This online marketplace builder has not only created plans for all sizes of companies, but one of them is absolutely free.

Continue reading “Arcadier Review: The Easy Way to Build a Marketplace for Products, Space or Services”

What are some of your main goals as an ecommerce professional?

Would you like to increase traffic, build your reputation or increase conversions? What about improving your customer service?

All of these are fine goals, but putting your plan into action and actually achieving those goals becomes a little trickier. That's where customer reviews come into play, since they build your credibility, give your customers an easier shopping experience and combine with SEO to guide more people to your site.

Continue reading “Trust Pilot vs Feefo vs Yotpo: The Ultimate Product Review Platform Comparison”

Handling reviews through WooCommerce, or any ecommerce platform for that matter, can be slightly unorganized.

The same goes for the interface that customers use, where it asks for too much customer information to post a review, or the form requires too many steps to publish.

In this Woo Reviews (by Wiremo) review, we're going to cover a plugin that hopefully mitigates all of your problems with reviews. It's a plugin that improves WooCommerce reviews, so those of you who utilize WordPress and WooCommerce for your online store will have a wonderful solution for customer reviews.

But wait:

Although the primary plugin covered today works with WooCommerce, Wiremo also supports integrations with the following systems:

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Popups and promotional banners are only useful if they're targeted to the customer seeing them.

Think about it: If I land on an ecommerce store and they reveal an exit-intent popup banner for 20% off all ladies merchandise (I'm a guy,) I'm going to close the screen immediately.

It also depends on where the customer is located in the shopping process. For instance, maybe a user is thinking about throwing another item in their cart but they're not quite sure. In that case, you don't want to redirect them to a promotion for another product, but rather keep selling the item they were almost about to buy.

Not all exit offer plugins and apps allow for this type of flexibility, but Picreel seems to do a good job seeing what customers are doing on your site and only sending them the promotions and offers that make sense. So here's an in-depth Picreel review if you'd like to learn more about the most advanced exit intent technology for ecommerce websites.

Continue reading “Picreel Review: Simple Exit Intent Offers That Don't Burn You Out”

You want more sales, right?

Don't we all?

Countless articles have been written about the topic, and even more, tactics are implemented on a daily basis in order to improve sales for online stores. From Instagram to Amazon and email marketing to the holiday push, boosting your sales comes in many different forms. But have you ever tried more alternative routes like Quora or Reddit?

These might sound intimidating at first, but many online stores are putting their expertise to work, writing Quora and Reddit answers that help out communities and drive customers to their websites.

You might initially think that spamming people on these forums is frowned upon, and you're correct. The trick is to provide value with your responses instead of posting spammy links that are bound to get ridiculed or pulled down from Reddit and Quora.

So, if you're interested in learning some interesting new ways to improve profits, here are some tried and tested tips for boosting sales with Quora and Reddit.

Continue reading “How to Boost Sales and Brand Value Sky-High With Quora and Reddit”