In my opinion, free web hosting is one of the most misunderstood concepts on the web today.  Free web hosting plans are becoming increasingly popular as new webmasters bite into the idea without actually analyzing the consequences.  I myself spent many years, at the start of my webmaster career, using free web hosting plans.  This experience has giving me an insight into the down-side of free web hosting plans that many people seem to miss.  Read More...

Why does traffic from online advertising bounce? Think about it: you've done the same thing many times. You've searched on a search engine, clicked on a result, then left that page less than ten seconds after you arrived. You did that again and again until you found what you were looking for. You might easily have left a trail of bounces on the server logs of a dozen websites, for a dozen website owners to worry over.  Read More...

What is eCommerce (or selling via the Internet)? It is similar to selling through a physical building's business storefront, with one big difference: the costs for eCommerce are lower. The lower costs alone make it a lot more affordable for someone to start up a business or expand their storefront business onto the Internet.  Read More...

Your Shopping Cart Can Be the Secret To Your Success

If you sell online or want to, knowing and understanding the advantageous and importance of an effective marketing system is critical. Armed with this knowledge will provide you with the means to identify a system that will help you promote your business and close more sales.  Read More...

15 Ways To Start Your Internet Business Sales
By Rob Lamper

1. Find a strategic business partner. Look for ones that have the same objective. You 
can trade leads, share marketing info, sell package deals, etc.  Read More...

There is a very simple answer to the perpetual question asked by newcomers to the Ecommerce world, "What Can I Sell Online?"  Read More...

How many customers could you be losing with confusing forms and difficult ordering processes? You may not realize it's confusing, difficult, or even full of errors until one potential customer makes a complaint. While one may complain, others won't even bother to seek out the answer to the problem and move on to another website.  Read More..

Many people are unsure about doing business online, due to the various news reports that they have seen about hackers and identity theft.  Read More...

If you have a product oriented business, the Internet offers a unique ability to reach a broad audience. With new technology, it is easy to build your own e-commerce store.  Read More...

Let's say, user X can upload ASP pages to the directory /User/X. User Y has the same hosting package and can upload to /User/Y. Most hosts just create an FTP account for every user, pointing them to there own directory. So far, so good. Every user can upload there nice websites into there own directory. Read More...

As the rate of information technology increases, many small business owners and individuals are now aiming to increase their communication and business with the use of the Internet. Some of the benefits of the Internet is that people can frequently improve their knowledge, be critical, and analyze new concepts and developments. Not only does the Internet provide an opportunity for people to access new and foreign knowledge, but people are also given the opportunity to share knowledge through the use of creating their own websites or visiting chat rooms.  Read More...

As important as the design and the way a websites work, another important issue can actually have negative results on not only your customers but your business. Site speed is a very important topic and should not be overlooked when having your website designed or  re-designed. It can actually directly hurt your sales and cut into your profits as people do not have the time to sit there and wait for your website to load. This is something that good sites take advantage of only having very small load times and bad sites seem to ignore (because they seem to overlook download time without even thinking of site optimization).  Read More...

The Internet is great at leveling the field for businesses. Where else can you put up a site and immediately compete with huge companies on an international basis?  Read More...

Many business owners unintentionally erect barriers between themselves and their customers when it comes to the site sales process. Simple mechanisms can be put in place to remove these barriers. A business owner that is always looking for new ways to connect with potential customers often finds his or her efforts paying off many times over. Some of the most common web sales barriers are lack of contact methods, payment methods, and delivery methods. To bridge these potential barriers, a business owner can provide more options to crossing each of these barriers.  Read More...

Ever been confused of which shopping cart software is best for the success of your online business? This will help shed some light on the popular issue.  Read More...

So you want to create a site, that will take get people to pay online. In order for them to do this they need to pay with Credit Card. So you purchase an account with an online Merchant, and want your site to collect the Credit Card information to collect payment. Now can you do this on your normal page? No, you should not! Why?   Read More...

There are many different factors that are to be taken into account when assessing Website performance. All I am trying to do in this article is to provide a brief explanation of the main aspects of the Website performance that companies need to concentrate on in order to measure effectiveness of their efforts on the Net.  Read More...