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

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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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Improve Sales Fast By Tapping This Resource

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Cyber Monday – the Internet’s version of Black Friday – marks the start of the holiday online shopping season that runs from right after US Thanksgiving till Christmas. Many merchant shopping cart owners report that they record their highest sales figures between December 5th and December 15th every year. By now many of you, especially those who have read our article on store preparations for the holidays, will have your stores ready for the biggest shopping period of the year.

To help you get the most out of Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and the rest of the holiday shopping season, we have prepared yet another tip that could help you increase your sales without much effort. The best thing is that you can also make use of this tip year-round.

So what exactly do we recommend? Read on to find out…

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Tips For Creating Effective eNewsletters

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People spend as much as 6 hours a day on the Internet, according to ecommerce statistics. Rain or shine, as long as the connection isn’t on the blink, chances are quite a few of the 1.6 billion people with internet access will be online.

If you have subscribed to an ecommerce shopping cart software service and are running a web store, you’ve probably spent quite a bit of time marketing your store. A typical ecommerce shopping cart provider usually includes lots of features to help you market your products. One such feature is eNewsletter Broadcasting.

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Grow Your Client Base With This Tip

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Do you know what Social Networking sites are? Did you know that they aren’t just for fun and are now considered an essential online marketing tool by many Internet marketing experts (just like good online shopping carts). And just like with a store, a healthy “client base” is also important in social networking.

The Lowdown On Social Networking

Social networking websites are made up of online communities of Internet users. These users are brought together by common interests – sports, religion, products, hobbies, etc. – and form groups to discuss these common interests. Some of these sites have become so immensely popular that Internet marketers have grown to realize the potential of social networking as a marketing tool.

In mid-June 2009, computer maker Dell announced that it earned $3 million in revenue from using Twitter, a popular micro-blogging facility. It took 18 months to make the first million but only six to earn the rest.

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