ZippyCart Blog: E-Commerce News

When Hiring Help for Online Businesses – CUSTOMER SERVICE SKILLS should be required!

2013-05-16T07:49:10Z

By Wayne Baumgartner May 20, 2013 Perhaps the most valuable service or product that any business can offer is its customer service. Through the client, a business grows, expands, and succeeds. This means that customer service skills should be required from all staff members, regardless of their position within a business. While your entire workforce [...]

A Study on Google Shopping

2013-05-15T03:52:47Z

By Mary Weinstein May 13, 2013 Every sales quarter, CPC Strategy conducts a study on the top shopping channels, including Google Shopping on seller metrics such as traffic and revenue. For Q1, Google shopping traffic almost doubled. CPC Strategy’s 2012 Ecommerce Industry Report compares Google Shopping against rival shopping engine Amazon Product Ads. It analyzes [...]

Last Minute Mother’s Day Gift Ideas (that you can buy right now… online!)

2013-05-10T08:22:22Z

By Susan Delly May 10, 2013 Mother’s Day is a wonderful tradition that is shared between mothers, grandmothers, aunties and other caregivers, with the children and loved ones who have come under their care. This celebration, in it’s many different forms, has spanned since early time but has been recognized in the USA as “Mother’s [...]

Social Media Do’s and Don’ts for E-Commerce Business Owners

2013-05-07T07:14:19Z

By the ZippyCart eCom team May 7, 2013 Popular social media platforms like Facebook, Google+ and Twitter are growing their active users count by millions. The number of active users on Facebook has totaled up to 700 million while Google+ has 300 million of them. Twitter is also not far behind with around 200 million [...]

What to Look For in an eCommerce Dashboard

2013-05-07T05:55:43Z

By Lanette Willis May 6, 2013 It’s become standard these days for eCommerce platforms to have some kind of dashboard feature. So standard in fact, that it’s easy to assume every dashboard is basically the same, and to overlook the true power and convenience that can be offered by this tool. Not all eCommerce solution [...]

How to Use a Blog to Attract Traffic to Your Online Store

2013-05-02T06:40:20Z

By the ZippyCart eCom team May 1, 2013 There are many ways that you can attract traffic to your online store. What you need to figure out is… which are the most effective ways to generate more traffic from your niche market? Sure, building an attractive online store with a good e-commerce solution (aka shopping [...]

Pointers for Making Your Bookkeeping Duties Stress-Free

2013-04-22T19:33:39Z

By Cara Aley April 22, 2013 Bookkeeping is one of what many would consider the necessary evils of running a successful business. But it doesn’t need to come with the stresses that so many of us associate with financial management. We’re here to provide some pointers for making the process a bit easier, and hopefully [...]

Payroll Nightmares – and How to Prevent Them

2013-04-10T06:35:48Z

By Debbie Allen April 15, 2013 Managing payroll processes can turn into an overwhelming chore that causes nightmares for those responsible. Employees count on receiving their paychecks on time and in the correct amount in order to maintain their lifestyle. Any breakdown in the system can result in huge problems for everyone concerned. The best [...]

How to Make and Use a Social Media Calendar

2013-04-10T07:18:54Z

By Ricky Tsao April 10, 2013 Editorial calendars are not just for books, magazines or newspapers. Though they have been in existence for ages, their presence today has extended into the world of the web as well. If you want to get the most out of your social media efforts, it’s a good idea to [...]

The ‘Get Up and Get Mobile’ Checklist

2013-04-03T07:17:01Z

By Chris Wallace April 8, 2013 Get off the computer and take your business mobile My friend owns a restaurant, and he’s struggling. After enjoying dinner there last week, he sat at my table and talked about the typical problems he’s facing — slow nights and not enough new customers through the door, despite a [...]