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Shopping Cart Software Solution: Product Zoom Feature

Posted on May 9, 2010August 11, 2016by DESMOND K

When you go shopping online, don’t you wish sometimes that there was a shopping cart software solution available to give you a better view of the item you are interested in? More so if the item is a piece of jewelery or has intricate designs or details on it. You see, (useful) information helps a person decide whether or not to buy an item. And information is not just restricted to text. It comes in the form of images as well. Every little bit counts when trying to convince potential customers to buy your products.

Enter InstanteStore’s Product Zoom feature, a small shopping cart help that has the potential to reduce product page bounce rates and improve sales.

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Good Free Shopping Cart Software Trial To Do List

Posted on May 9, 2010August 11, 2016by DESMOND K

There are many ecommerce solution providers out there who provide good free shopping cart software program trials. The free shopping cart software program trial duration varies from 15 to 30 days. Many, especially newbies, might find 15 days a tad too short to get the feel of a solution so if you need more time to try out all the bells and whistles, just ask for an extension; most good free shopping cart software trial providers would be more than happy to oblige.

So now that you’ve signed up for a 30-day good free shopping cart software trial, what do you need to do? Well, try the easiest stuff first. Here are 5 things you can do in just a matter of minutes with your free shopping cart store software 30-day trial.

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Ecommerce Shopping Cart Software Service – Autoresponders

Posted on April 14, 2010by DESMOND K

So what actually are autoresponders and how can merchants take advantage of this feature?

Autoresponders are part of the email marketing arsenal and this tool is available as an ecommerce shopping cart software service feature with the InstanteStore shopping cart solution. There have been tons of articles written about autoresponders as this feature is such an essential part of email marketing campaigns. The concept of autoresponders is fairly simple – remind subscribers through email about your products, offers and the store itself while subtly convincing them to buy your product.

There are a couple of strategies when it comes to autoresponders. Some are more direct than others. But they all share one thing in common – a killer headline or subject line.

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Ecommerce Shopping Cart Software Service – Music And Such

Posted on March 17, 2010by DESMOND K

Many merchants are selling downloadable content these days. Downloadable products would include music, videos, software and ebooks. Needless to say, InstanteStore’s ecommerce shopping cart software service can accommodate such products.

Pros And Cons

There are pros and cons to selling downloadable products as opposed to tangible products. On the bright side, these products do not necessitate large physical storage space. Also, they do not require any shipping and packing, which would mean no more shipping related issues like lost items, delayed shipment, items damaged during delivery and wrong quantity being shipped. Customers can also download their purchases pretty much immediately after completing payment, which adds to customer satisfaction.

On the downside, these products do use up a bit of bandwidth especially when it comes to videos. But the pros very obviously out weigh the cons.

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Online Shopping Cart Checkout Website Design Alternative

Posted on March 12, 2010by DESMOND K

As you would expect from a top shopping cart provider, InstanteStore offers a wide array of online shopping cart checkout website design payment methods for merchants to choose from. Stores usually have more than 1 shopping cart payment method in order to be more accessible to a wider market in terms of payment acceptance.

Google Checkout is an alternative to the popular PayPal shopping cart software payment method. But as with all online shopping cart checkout website design payment methods, none are perfect; which is why it is better to have a variety available at your store, requirements and cost permitting. Before you decide to offer Google Checkout as a payment method at your store, read on to find out the pros and the cons.

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Custom Shopping Cart Designs – Are They Really Necessary?

Posted on March 10, 2010by DESMOND K

Many merchants who sell products to very niche markets have done quite well even without the aid of custom shopping cart templates. In such cases where competition is relatively low, utilizing our free shopping cart templates is adequate for ecommerce shopping cart software storefronts designs.

InstanteStore offers 52 free template designs, which come in 5 different color styles each. This saves you the trouble of having to search for free shopping cart templates download sites. With the free templates from InstanteStore, all you have to do is simply select the template of your liking and you’ll have a storefront up in no time at all. It’s that easy, no downloads and no online shopping cart tutorial needed.

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Secure Ecommerce Shopping Cart Insight – World Cup Keywords

Posted on March 6, 2010by DESMOND K

We blogged earlier about the World Cup being just a few months away. We also disclosed that quite a number of stores have already started with their World Cup inspired shopping cart design templates and have begun selling World Cup merchandise in preparation for the big event. Many are promoting pre-orders for certain items with heavy discounts to entice buyers.

In this post, we will offer another secure ecommerce shopping cart insight into the kinds of keywords these merchants use and what the hottest World Cup related searches are right now.

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Ecommerce Shopping Carts – Ideas For FIFA 2010 World Cup

Posted on March 3, 2010by DESMOND K

Football fans started buying their favorite national team jerseys as soon as the teams they support qualified for the World Cup Finals in South Africa. Teams from 32 countries will take part in the World Cup. The “traditional” World Cup heavyweights such as Brazil, Germany, Argentina, France, England, Spain and Italy have loads of fans the world over from nations who did not qualify as well. To try to take advantage of this huge event, we present a few quick shopping cart ideas for owners of ecommerce shopping carts stores in this post.

Attendance in South Africa will be in the millions but billions more will be following it from home. As a show of solidarity for their beloved teams, fans around the world will be seen donning the jerseys of their favorite teams jerseys come June.

Even before the end of the Winter Olympics, ecommerce shopping carts sports, gifts and souvenir related stores dedicated a few pages each to the FIFA World Cup that’s coming up in a few months. There’s even a merchant selling home products who’s already promoting World Cup related beddings and toiletries. This just goes to show that if you know what your market wants and you market your product well, the likelihood of success is high.

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