InstanteStore Ecommerce Features

Free Shopping Cart Templates Download Sites … With InstanteStore, There’s No Need!

Posted on December 18, 2009December 17, 2009by DESMOND K

Did you know that InstanteStore offers a choice of over 50 free shopping cart templates with our solution? What’s more, each template comes in 5 different color schemes, giving you even more design options. Signing up with InstanteStore means not having to worry about your template design and not having to scour the length and breadth of the Internet for free shopping cart templates download sites.

All you need to do is register for your free trial which just takes a few easy steps, log into your new store and then choose a shopping cart design template that’s suitable for what you intend to sell. You can literally get your store up and running in less than an hour.

Our free shopping cart design templates are great for new merchants on a tight budget who want to get their store up and running as fast as possible.

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Cheap Shopping Cart Software vs Free Shopping Cart Store Software

Posted on December 17, 2009December 16, 2009by DESMOND K

Business people are always looking to get stuff at good value. In terms of shopping carts, they prefer affordable and cheap shopping cart software, especially those who are just starting out in ecommerce. Free shopping cart store software would be even better … or would it?

A business is an investment, and sometimes we need to spend just a little to make sure that our business is secure. We can never guarantee how our business will pan out but we need to do everything we can to make sure it has a chance of doing well. One of the ways of doing that is to sign up for a reliable as well as cheap shopping cart software solution from a reputable ecommerce solutions company (us, of course) that is feature-rich and established.

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How To Start Your Own Clothing Line Web Store

Posted on December 3, 2009by DESMOND K

Apparel continues to be among the hot items to sell on the Internet, amounting to 36% of online sales. Merchants of clothing stores who have marketed their stores well are seeing some serious cash flowing in. We have posted articles about a few clothing niches before, consignment shops for example, but we do still get visitors asking about how to start your own clothing line web store. Well, it’s easier than you think. We also get tougher questions like how to start your own hair salon online or how to start your own restaurant online. We’ll save those for another day.

So if you’re thinking of starting a clothing store, read on.

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Top Home Based Business Tip – Making Full Use Of Available Stats

Posted on November 26, 2009November 30, 2009by DESMOND K

Commerce – especially ecommerce – is a numbers game. Merchants who want to run a top home based business must analyze their store stats frequently to tweak their stores for optimal performance. Number of visits versus number of conversions, best sellers, popular wish list items … this is all important information that can help merchants improve their stores.

In this post we will look at 4 statistical tools that can be found in the InstanteStore ecommerce solution. You don’t need a custom shopping cart to have access to these statistics. The stats are easy to access and we hope owners of online business opportunity work from home busines will make use of them after reading this article.

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Make It Easier For Visitors to Shop At Your Store – 3 Quick Tips

Posted on November 26, 2009November 26, 2009by DESMOND K

Many web stores get loads of traffic but traffic alone will not make merchants money. Sites need to convert visitors into customers for that to happen. We have blogged about the need to make pages as sticky as possible in earlier posts. We have also briefly gone over the use of tools such as newsletters and discount coupons to entice customers. We have even talked about tapping the aborted orders list to improve sales.

In this posting, we will look at how you can make it easier for customers to shop at your stores via online shopping cart checkout website design, the use of appropriate information and page designs.

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Ready To Start A Web Store? Take This Quiz, Then Decide

Posted on November 23, 2009by DESMOND K

There are many people out there who contemplate starting a web store but procrastinate or don’t see their ideas get off the drawing board at all.

Yes, starting a business, especially one that’s online, will take more than an ecommerce solution filled with online shopping cart software packages. And yes, there are risks involved as well as added responsibilities. All of us would love the extra income having a successful web store can bring, but many people give up even before they can get started.

Before you make up your mind on whether or not you want to pursue an online business – full-time, part-time or not at all – take our little quiz first.

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InstanteStore Ecommerce Features

Why More Customers Are Using PayPal

Posted on November 19, 2009by DESMOND K

After just 100 months in the payments platform business, PayPal had already amassed 133 million users and more merchants than Visa, MasterCard and American Express put together (according to Chris Skinner, CEO of Balatro and chairman of the Financial Services Club). This was way back in 2007. Some stats have shown that PayPal is the preferred mode of payment boasting figures anywhere from 5% to 23% of the total number of online shoppers polled. The figures are impressive indeed.

In this article, we will look at why a growing horde of online shoppers choose PayPal and why merchants insist on PayPal shopping cart software integration in their ecommerce solution.

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Retain Customers With Reward Points

Posted on November 13, 2009by DESMOND K

Ecommerce statistcs and starting a new business gurus constantly state that customer retention is an important factor in the survival and growth of a company. It does not matter if you are a manufacturer specializing in the production of specialized instruments with two or three clients or an online web store with thousands of customers — every customer is important. Remember that one bad remark can go a long way towards destroying a company’s credibility and eliminating a customer base regardless of its size.

In this article we will explore the use of reward points (a feature available with InstanteStore’s shopping cart service) in retaining customers as well as improving sales conversions for new visitors.

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Reasons Visitors Abandon Shopping Carts And The Solution

Posted on October 31, 2009by DESMOND K

Current sales figures may seem fine to many merchants out there but these can always be improved. You just have to know where to look for obstacles that have been preventing your store from registering even better sales. And when you find these obstacles, do not panic. A solution is always close at hand.

Here’s an example. For those of you who do not check your aborted order list, it might come as a shock to you that as many as 7 out of 10 orders are aborted. That means for every 10 visitors that begin the checkout process, only 3 actually go ahead and complete their orders with a purchase. It’s a “so close yet so far” scenario. This is a frustrating situation but fortunately there are steps merchants can take to remedy this problem.

Read on for quick shopping cart abandonment remedies …

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