eCommerce Tycoon

**goldenspiralstds** · 06-28-2011, 10:40 PM

Good marketing strategy and good customer support are one factors to increase your sales.

**Pakenyo** · 07-18-2011, 08:16 PM

Keep in open mind.
Sometime, the way we think is not the way our potential customers think.
We should try new methods and keep testing new ideas. we might be surprised by what is working eventually.

**sdudey** · 07-21-2011, 01:03 AM

I have seen a lot of online stores with sale discounts on them. While there are real products with real discounts, they sometimes add on the regular price before subjecting the item on sale. So you lose just a little profit as compared to subtracting from its real price. While this would not be good practice, it would attract customers as they would think that they save a lot when they get it.

That will in turn give you the numbers you need.

**ecommercehelper** · 07-27-2011, 07:27 PM

Doing a lot of ecommerce research and I'm finding one of the bigger trends emerging has online merchants adopting consumer review services. I have noticed Power Reviews and TurnTo are coming to the forefront in the media because consumers are becoming more receptive to reviews and relying on them during the purchase process. It's not a new tool but it is having a resurgence. The power of peer-to-peer reviews can easily boost product sales.

**PrasannaKrishna** · 08-10-2011, 11:23 PM

Analytics of your traffic will help

How many of your buyers come from
1. Search
2. Ads
3. Referrals
4. Return customers

Find out where you are lagging in each of these channels and experiment with different things as appropriate to the products you sell.

Return customers are usually the most profitable, but are you gently reminding them that you exist and they can buy from you? Are you making sure every customer is super happy with your purchase?

Referrals are great, but are you making it easy & lucrative for your customers to refer their friends? Look at Dropbox for a great referral scheme - if you refer a friend (and they start using), then both you AND the friend get a credit.

**johnmiller48** · 08-17-2011, 03:21 AM

Yep I have had the same experience.....Free Traffic Exchanges, Listbuilders and safelists are really only good for listbuilding. Then use that list to get sales down the road. But the ultamate is fresh search engine traffic from relevant search terms.

**ThomasDNP** · 09-22-2011, 06:54 AM

My tip: simply make it easy to buy from you.

It may seem trivial, but it's not. Some sites, carts and processes can wear out potential customers. Make sure you put yourself in the user's shoes and see what can be fixed, made faster or simpler.
This change in conversion can sometimes, even most of the time, have more impact on your business than bringing in more traffic.

**Digmen1** · 11-24-2011, 05:16 PM

Dont forget older people, they buy on line, and have credit cards etc.

**mikenash200** · 12-07-2011, 08:33 AM

Offer a payment plan, more so for expensive products. Paypal has such a payment plan that allows buyers to spread payment over x months. if not paypal, then discuss having this option with your merchant.

**mikenash200** · 12-07-2011, 08:36 AM

Also, I'm thinking.... let your buyers pay a little amount upfront, say 10% of cost price, then collect remaining 90% after x days, automatically via your merchant of course. Or maybe this might not work with physical products, but I have seen it used with info products, so might be worth looking into.

**JoeVlcek** · 02-14-2012, 12:13 AM

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Originally Posted by ecommercehelper

Doing a lot of ecommerce research and I'm finding one of the bigger trends emerging has online merchants adopting consumer review services. I have noticed Power Reviews and TurnTo are coming to the forefront in the media because consumers are becoming more receptive to reviews and relying on them during the purchase process. It's not a new tool but it is having a resurgence. The power of peer-to-peer reviews can easily boost product sales.

I was reading through all of the replies and wondered if anyone would mention this. This has one of the biggest impacts on internet purchases. Without peer to peer reviews, you are falling behind.

Forget all of the basic "tips" in this thread like "have a good marketing plan", "know your customer", "excite them", "good pricing", etc. None of those are tips. Those are common sense or nonsense. Peer to peer reviews have such a huge impact on sales and companies are spending big money to get them.

Peer to peer reviews attract visitors, close sales and they generate the best content for search engines.

Best tip yet... get peer to peer reviews.

Thanks ecommercehelper. I almost lost faith in this place when no one was mentioning one of the best tips to increase sales.

**delhis** · 03-01-2012, 07:59 AM

Its always difficult to get first customer.

But work wisely on your product Stage 1 Sell it on "NET"(no profit no loss)

Retain Customer " Never forget 1 Happy customer bring 10 new customers"

Hola if you hear me

**zhidaoch** · 03-10-2012, 05:06 AM

I believe that you must always be marketing because selling is all in the timing.

**ShaneBro** · 03-16-2012, 09:08 AM

If you have to increase the sell of your product and services then you have to use the Internet Marketing techniques which are powerful way through which you can make sense about your product and services. By doing this you can increase your sell.

**mixa** · 03-21-2012, 01:58 PM

Hello. Yes, of course, you can make a lot of money with the help Internet Marketing. I think, it’s the easiest way to promote your product and then sell it to people from all over the world. You just need to have a really good quality of your product, then you can advertise it in the Internet easily and will have more and more sales.

**Digmen1** · 03-26-2012, 04:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hawy89

When I want to buy something, I look for a well built website as I just don't trust ones that look like they have been built poorly.

Why do you say that ?
Mine has been built poorly by me, and I am 100% trustworthy, but if course my customers might not think so.

**adymdc86** · 03-26-2012, 11:01 AM

Give as much of a profit to your affiliates or resellers as you can