12 Tips for Navigating the January Sales Tax Perfect Storm
Nearly every online seller will have a sales tax return due in January no matter if you file annually, monthly, or quarterly. For this reason at TaxJar we like to call January the "Sales Tax Perfect...
View ArticleHow to Work With Focus Groups to Test Your Niche or Business Idea
Do you have an idea for a product or a retail niche but aren’t sure if there is a market for it? Do you hesitate to launch because you don’t have enough validation that your idea will succeed? If you...
View ArticleWhy and How We Updated the Ecwid Control Panel
Your Ecwid store can have many storefronts — a single Control Panel makes it easy to manage them. It contains all the settings and tools for sales; you use many of them every day, and you can regularly...
View ArticleWhy Your Online Store Needs a YouTube Channel in 2018 (And How to Start)
Having your own YouTube channel sounds hot and tempting. The existing YouTube stars look fun and easy-going, as if it’s a no-brainer to get in front of a million eyes. Even a simple unboxing video of a...
View Article11 Trending Product Ideas for 2018 that Require Minimal Investment
A new year brings new tastes and trends. What worked well in 2017 can suddenly be out of fashion in 2018. We showed you how to spot product trends before. We then used the same methodology to find the...
View ArticleMac Users, Meet Our E-Commerce Plugin for RapidWeaver Websites
There are countless ways to build a website. One of them is to use the desktop site builder application RapidWeaver for Mac. With our new e-commerce plugin for RapidWeaver, you can now add an online...
View ArticleHow to Handle Negative Feedback: A Practical Guide
Where there is light, there is shadow too. This describes online reviews in a nutshell. When it comes to reputation management, it is essential to react to negative reviews. You probably struggle to...
View Article19 Customer Appreciation Gift Ideas to Thank Your Customers
What better way to show customers that you care than to send them a customer appreciation gift? Your competitors might try to win over customers with stale "thank you" emails. You, on the other hand,...
View Article8 Must-Have Elements of a Great Abandoned Cart Email
It can be cheaper to convince someone who has already shown up in your store to return than to look for a new customer. Especially if that person had a serious intention to buy from you, but something...
View ArticleWhat You Should Know Before Buying an Online Business
The cost of opening an online store is lower than ever before. Yet, launching a new business carries a certain amount of risk. Any number of things can go wrong: your marketing plan might not pan out...
View ArticleHow to Figure Out Where to Sell Your Products
As a retailer, you obviously want more sales. And to get these sales, you want to be everywhere your customers are: on your online store, Facebook, Instagram, and even your own physical outlet. This is...
View ArticleHow to Find Distributors for Your Product
You’ve created a great new product and you can’t wait to get it before customers. You’ve already started an online store and established a presence on leading marketplaces. The next step is to get the...
View ArticleHow to Secure Your Online Business from Fraudulent Customers
The default thinking of any business owner is that the customer is always right. It’s a perfect undercover for malicious customers. They have laws, banks, and the power of online reviews on their side....
View Article10 E-Commerce Marketing Trends to Watch in 2018
Mobile commerce has been trending for the last few years and is still high on the agenda. Online stores should be adapted for smartphones and tablets, and ideally, have an app. But even if you have...
View Article6 Facebook Marketing Mistakes That Are Holding You Back
With more than 2 billion active users, Facebook can be something of a social media marketing powerhouse. As with all such things, if done poorly, a Facebook marketing campaign can still fall flat, or...
View ArticleHow to Move Products and Services in an Omnichannel World
The world of e-commerce and digital marketing is facing a significant shift. Technology allows business owners to go from selling in-person or through one channel to reaching out to their customers...
View ArticleBest New Apps 2/18: Fulfillment, Social Login, Payments
In case you’ve just bumped into our hit parade, this is a monthly edition of picks from the Ecwid App Market. All of them can be installed in your Ecwid online store and even used to transform it...
View ArticleUnderstanding the Terms and Conditions Page for Your E-Commerce Store
Only about one in a thousand of your website visitors will refer to your T&Cs page. "As a small online business, can I save the bother of writing this boring legal document if no one reads it...
View Article4 Quick Methods That Will Help You to Generate Creative Ideas for Your Business
Creative ads stand out in the competition and get customers interested. Easy to say, but how to come up with one? We’re going to share four creative methods for idea generation that you can use in a...
View ArticleHow to Create a Product Prototype
An eight-year-old girl from Mexico has just won a prestigious science prize for making a solar heater from old hoses, glass panels from a former construction site, and logs. Her invention will help...
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