Campaign Monitor Review and Pricing [E-mail Marketing Service]

Email Marketing Services Reviews

Regardless of whether you currently own your own ecommerce store or you are looking to get started in the ecommerce world, having an effective email marketing software supplier is vital to the success of your business.

However, selecting the right email marketing software for your business can be a very tricky process. Some of the big players in email marketing include Mailchimp, Aweber and ConstantContact, nonetheless, Campaign Monitor is a well-established company that can lay claim to be amongst the big guns.

Choosing the right software has a lot to do with the CRM (customer relationship management) tool that you are using as well. If your CRM and email marketing software can link then the process of qualifying your customers and leads becomes easier. Ensuring you are sending the right materials to the right people, at the right time

All of the aforementioned email providers all have their own unique benefits and hindrances so it's vital that you take care in choosing.

To make this easier we have put together an overview of Campaign Monitor's pricing, features, pros and cons and whether it's suitable for you, depending on what stage your business is at.

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How to Research Keywords for Your Online Shop with Market Samurai

Ecommerce Selling Advice

The success of your online store depends on quality keyword research. Did you hear that? Have you ever worked on finding the perfect keywords for your ecommerce store? When people make a search through Google they are most likely to choose one of the first ten links on the first page (usually the first or the second!). Are all of your products ranking in the top ten?

After you get up and running with a nice ecommerce platform one of the next steps is strategizing your keyword approach, since it’s an essential part of your marketing strategy.

Several tools offer options for finding relevant and high ranking keywords to boost your SEO, but one of them stands out. It’s called Market Samurai.

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Paddle Review – Sell Apps, Games and Software Online the Easy Way

Ecommerce Reviews

As a developer of apps, games etc., your primary skill set, but naturally, would be programming and software development. This is what you do the best and this is what you should be able to focus your energies on the most. While this would be the ideal scenario for you, the practicalities of life, however, could be substantially different, as you have probably experienced for yourself, to your disadvantage.

The unfortunate fact that most developers have to live with is having to spend large amounts of time and efforts on tasks and activities like setting up payment gateways, licensing systems, trial setups, analytics etc. – all sucking up your time, away from areas of your core competencies.

If this is where you are at, you might find a good friend in Paddle – a service that lets you easily setup checkout and provides several other useful tools for your web site where you sell apps and games.

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10 Largest Ecommerce Sites Globally are Located Mainly in China and U.S.

Ecommerce News

When you are considering the largest ecommerce sites in the world by their monthly visitors, you would be quick to think that Amazon or eBay would top the chart, however as you can see in the chart below, the biggest ecommerce company in the world isn't located in the U.S. but is Taobao in China with more than 600 million monthly visitors.

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The State of Online Shopping [Exclusive Infographic]

Ecommerce News

Throughout the past few years internet retail sales have seen a steady growth, and in the U.S. alone it is expected to increase 10% during 2015. As more and more people start using their smartphones and tablets to complete their shopping, brick-and-mortar stores will soon see a decline in their sales. Check out our first infographic to to see a detailed view of the state of ecommerce in 2015.

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BoldChat Review [Live Chat Customer Support App]

Ecommerce Reviews

Providing customer support via live chat has become nearly as essential as a payment gateway for an ecommerce operation today, for two main reasons. Firstly, scores of online buyers are coming to expect this sort of support mechanism when they are shopping online and secondly, this can lead to a significant boost to the sales volumes.

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Shopify vs. Yahoo Ecommerce (Feb 2023) – Ecommerce Platform Comparison

Ecommerce Comparisons

Shopify is the heavy hitter in today's ecommerce world but at one point Yahoo! was the only reasonable option when it came to selling products online without much development experience. Therefore, it's time to match up Shopify vs. Yahoo Ecommerce and see which one comes out on top.

As the publisher of an ecommerce industry blog, I am somewhat nostalgic and emotionally charged to be reviewing the Yahoo Ecommerce ecommerce platform. Yahoo! happens to be the first company that brought an ecommerce store building platform out to the masses in a big way, back in 1998. They did this by way of acquiring a company called Viaweb that was founded in 1995 by Paul Graham, Robert Tuppen Morris, and Trevor Blackwell.

Viaweb was actually the first-ever web app that allowed users with little technical chops to create and host online storefronts.

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How to Use Color and Contrast to Make Your Message Stand Out

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A brand is defined by the colors they use. It can say a lot about your business, products, or services. Understanding the way color works and how to properly express what your brand stands for will help you stand out amongst the competition.

Using Color to Shape Mood

Colors evoke various responses from different people. Even the shade of color has an effect on human reaction. Why not take advantage of color psychology to influence your customers? You know what message you want your brand to create thanks to my previous article, now let’s find the colors to match!

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