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Starting a Company with a Full-Time Job(ecommercefuel.com)
1 points by spiredigital 14y ago|0 comments
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Outsourcing from the Perspective of my Filipino VA(ecommercefuel.com)
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by spiredigital 14y ago
If you try to compete against on Amazon on price - or really ANY company on price - you'll get crushed. Without a unique selling proposition, you're going to have a hard time differentiating yourself in the marketplace.
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by spiredigital 14y ago
Great infograph on this post! It's amazing how quickly eCommerce is transitioning to mobile devices, although I'm not sure who all the people are that are buying via mobile. I almost never buy anything via mobile as it's a hassle - much ea
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by spiredigital 14y ago
John Jonas, the interviewee, has over seven years of experience outsourcing to the Philippines and currently employs over 12 full-time VAs. He's got a lot of great tips on how to effectively find, hire, train and manage VAs to build a full-
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Hiring Virtual Assistants: Tips from an Outsourcing Expert(ecommercefuel.com)
2 points by spiredigital 14y ago|1 comments
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by spiredigital 14y ago
Totally agreed! Just left a comment above about how eCommerce is my favorite source of passive income.
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by spiredigital 14y ago
I'd have to say my two eCommerce businesses. They took a ton of time to setup and market initially, but now they generate a full-time income as I have a team in place to manage operations. I love to work on them and often do, but I'll freq
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by spiredigital 14y ago
Yep! If businesses would worry less about the cost of providing world-class support and do a better job of testing to identify the most profitable price points then everyone wins - customers and business owner.
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by spiredigital 14y ago
I spent my first few years out of college working for an investment bank, and feel the same way as the piece author – I have no regrets leaving. Finance can be a great way to start / springboard your career: I sharpened my analytical mind,
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by spiredigital 14y ago
It's getting harder to "game" the search engines, especially with updates like Google's Penguin. So a lot of the old methods that might have been effective a few years back (article marketing, reciprocal linking) won't work, or will event
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The 17 Best (And Worst) SEO & Marketing Strategies(ecommercefuel.com)
1 points by spiredigital 14y ago|1 comments
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by spiredigital 14y ago
Great post. As a guy with almost no gift for design, I've struggled with how to hire a designer and work with them effectively, and this help a lot.
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by spiredigital 14y ago
Nope, that's right! Should have explained it that way the first time.
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by spiredigital 14y ago
It's technical name is 'Meta Title', which helps disguising it from an article's on-page title, which is actually an H1 or H2 tag. Often, please think the meta title is what appears in big letters at the top of an article. While they are
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by spiredigital 14y ago
Thanks boothead! Spent a lot of time trying to distill SEO down to the need-to-know concepts without skipping over anything major. Glad you enjoyed the eBook, and thanks for not writing me off based on my past career! ;-)
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by spiredigital 14y ago
It's interesting how the nofollow tag has evolved over the years. Originally, people used it not only to control blog SPAM but also to shape the way PageRank flowed throughout a site - a method called PageRank Sculpting. The idea was you'
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The 15-Minute Guide to Becoming an SEO Ninja(ecommercefuel.com)
4 points by spiredigital 14y ago|9 comments
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by spiredigital 14y ago
The article also addresses a lot of the downsides to drop shipping - tons of competition, dealing with inventory problems, mistakes from the wholesalers - instead of just skimming over them and pretending like they're not there.
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by spiredigital 14y ago
A bit of a inflammatory title, but the underlying concept is valid. If you can approach all your marketing and SEO efforts in an attempt to help the OTHER party, you'll be much more successful.
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Nobody Cares About Your Business(ecommercefuel.com)
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What They Don't Tell You About Building an Online Business(pocketchanged.com)
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by spiredigital 14y ago
Raising prices a few years ago with my eCommerce site lead to an instant 30% increase in profits, so it really is powerful and is something that has the potential to do amazing things for your business. Great post, and congratulations on a
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by spiredigital 14y ago
My wife and I were recently joking the other day starting a match-making service for couples. But instead of matching single guys with single girls, you'd be matched via the interests and personality of your counterpart in another couple!
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‘I Got Next’: Exploring New York Through Pickup Basketball(nytimes.com)
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by spiredigital 14y ago
I'd love to hear from others who have had items hit the frontpage for an extended period regarding traffic stats and exposure. This post got as high as #14 and was on the front page for 4 to 5 hours. Overall, it received 4,000+ visits whi
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Hitting the HN Frontpage: A Case Study with Traffic Stats from WPEngine(wpengine.com)
5 points by spiredigital 14y ago|2 comments
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by spiredigital 14y ago
There are a ton of shopping carts available for "traditional" warehouse-based merchants, but hardly any designed with the drop shipper in mind, which is crazy given the huge number of ships that utilize drop shipping. If anyone is thinking
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My Drop Shipping Business' Fulfillment Process(ecommercefuel.com)
4 points by spiredigital 14y ago|1 comments
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by spiredigital 14y ago
I spent three weeks in India last year teaching in a slum school, and this is the most candid and accurate description of the country I've read yet. Well done. I think some people are afraid to really be honest at the risk of being politi

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