Learn how to start affiliate marketing by finding a niche market, creating a website and crafting content that promotes affiliate products. You can start an affiliate site for just $2.95 per month and earn thousands per month working part-time. The biggest affiliate marketers make millions each year and most started out small — just like…
WooCommerce vs. Shopify: Price, Features & Which is Best in 2018
In comparing WooCommerce vs. Shopify, two top-rated ecommerce platforms, both deliver complete online sales, order management and shipping tools. WooCommerce excels in blogging features while Shopify provides built-in multichannel marketing integrations. Both are expandable via plug-ins or apps, and both are budget-friendly — WooCommerce starts at $6.95 per month and Shopify at $29 per month….
How to Market a Product in 5 Steps
Product marketing starts with defining your target audience—consumers, businesses, or both—then researching the competition, identifying your outreach and sales channels, developing a product story, and finally, launching your plan. Our five-step guide shows you how to market a product effectively and within budget, plus keep sales momentum going post-launch. How Product Marketing Works in 2018…
Best Shipping Software for 2018: ShippingEasy vs ShipStation vs Ordoro
Ecommerce shipping software lets you compare shipping rates among different carriers, select the best option for each parcel, and print shipping labels. We reviewed the best shipping software providers and found that ShippingEasy, ShipStation, and Ordoro cover a range of small business and ecommerce shipping needs in terms of price, ease of use, and key…
Fulfillment Center: Definition, Providers & Costs for 2018
A fulfillment center is a business that provides outsourced inventory storage, order packing and shipping services to ecommerce sellers and other companies that store and ship goods. With fulfillment centers covering these time-consuming tasks, small businesses owners can focus on growth. Outsourcing fulfillment is more flexible and often more economical than an in-house operation. Outsourcing…
Review: Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing vs. Smashwords
In this Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) vs. Smashwords review, you’ll see that both platforms let you sell e-books online, but each targets different audiences. Kindle Direct Publishing lets you sell e-books to readers using Amazon Kindle devices, which account for 70 percent of e-book sales worldwide. Smashwords distributes e-books across marketplaces that cover the remaining…
6 Best Free Inventory Management Software Options for 2018
Free inventory management software lets business owners easily organize and classify products, track stock counts, manage vendor data, and make manual or real-time adjustments for sold, received, damaged, and obsolete goods. We reviewed the range of free inventory software options and identified six top solutions for small business in terms of features and ease-of-use. Top…
How to Write & Publish an eBook in 6 Steps
eBooks are digital books that anyone can self-publish on ebook marketplaces like Amazon, Kobo and Smashwords as well as your own website, blog and social channels. Learning how to publish an ebook starts with researching and writing your ebook, then formatting it for various distribution channels and finally marketing it to potential readers. It’s easy…
How to Create & Save an e-Book in Kindle Format
A Kindle is Amazon’s proprietary e-reader, which displays e-books saved in Kindle format. To sell e-books on Amazon or read non-Amazon documents on a Kindle, you need to save them as Kindle format .mobi files. We’ll show you how to create, save, and convert e-books and documents as .mobi files using free online tools. There…
How to Use Woocommerce & Square to Run Your Business
The WooCommerce Square point-of-sale (POS) system integration connects in-store and online transactions, products and inventory and tracks it all within the Square POS dashboard. Using the free Square for WooCommerce plug-in, you can expand your in-store business to online sales easily. If you sell online using WooCommerce, you can add Square and start selling in-person….
Top 27 Online Selling Tips from Top Producers
e-Commerce is a highly competitive industry, with a 2017 Statista study estimating that United States retail e-commerce sales will reach $461 billion by the end of 2018 and $603 billion by 2021. To help your business capitalize on this growth, we asked high-performing online sellers to share their tips that aspiring e-commerce business owners can…
5 Best Credit Card Readers for 2018
Credit card readers let businesses accept credit card payments in various sales settings. Most work with mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets, and connect to business software or point-of-sale apps to complete payments and track sales. We review the best credit card reader options in terms of features, options, and costs for small businesses. Best…
