Archive for December 2007

Do your photos need more zing? Give them a little “Bling”

Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

It’s no secret that the quality of a store’s product images can have a significant impact on its sales. If you’ve invested time and effort to refine your product images, then you’ve likely found image editing can be a labor-intensive process, especially when removing and replacing backgrounds or improving the overall quality. So when I [...]

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1 Choice 4 Your Store Hosts Webinar on Product Sourcing for New Merchants

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

1 Choice 4 Your Store in conjunction with Worldwide Brands will be hosting a webinar on December 13, 2pm (EST) focused on helping new merchants source products and build stores with Yahoo! Merchant Solutions.
Webinar topics include:

What “Product Sourcing” means for a home-based E-Biz owner?
Why are multiple sourcing techniques so important to an Online Seller?
How can [...]

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Giving the Gift of Increased Order Size to Yourself

Friday, December 7th, 2007

I was recently reading another great FutureNow post by Bryan Eisenberg on their 2007 Retail Customer Experience Study. The study surveyed leading online retail sites on factors of customer experience such as quality of product copy, quality of product images, presence of return policy, and so on. Towards the bottom of the post you can [...]

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Yahoo! Small Business Follow Up

Saturday, December 1st, 2007

We’ve heard you and we’ve been hearing from our merchant partners since Monday, and I want to let you know what happened earlier this week and what we’re doing about it.
On Monday, and for a very short time yesterday, unusual service interruptions affected transactions in Yahoo! Merchant Solutions/Yahoo! Stores.
After an investigation, we learned that the [...]

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