Advancing eCommerce

The whole story is told in this short HD video (please go full screen so you can see the fine details).

If you are seeing the small version of this video, the <a href=http://www.800cart.com/tutorials.htm>HD version of this 800Cart ecommerce tutorial is available at 800Cart.com</a>.

The US annual budget deficit approached 3 times the highest annual deficit in the past. 2009 spending is now $1.3 TRILLION over 2009 revenues.

Wow.  We’re just a little over halfway through the year.

One estimate predicts a deficit of $2.2 trillion by the end of the year.

The budget for the entire federal government in 2003 was $2.2 trillion, now we are well on track to borrow that same amount just for this year’s spending.

In 2008, the projected deficit for this year was expected to be “a record” $480 billion.

H/T: Hot Air.

If you use 800Cart and have, say, 150 products, then more than 50,000 links back to your site is not going to be a problem.  And it’s all automatic – it does not take days or weeks of strategizing and labor.  (we did all that for you years ago – you just need to hook in to our success).

Certainly, it’s going going to advance you like 1 link from 50,000 separate web sites, but results speak volumes.  Several new 800Cart customers took #1, #2, #3 in just a few days (like 8)… others have dominated with 5-6 links in the top 10 for months (try “gourmet mushroom“).  It’s all done ‘legally’ in the fashion that Google asks you to do it.

Watch the video for details. Click in the lower right of the video to load the HQ version then go to full screen if you want to see the screenshot details we illustrate.

‘SEO & Suggestive Sell’ (main menu) must be turned on in your 800Cart COntrol Panel to put this to work for you!  By the end of your 30 Day Free Trial at 800Cart, you can be dominating the search engines.

Is it as good as having 1 link from each of 50,000 different sites? Certainly not. But most webmasters would kill for 50,000 links from 4 sites as described in the video. But it’s included in any $9.90/month shopping cart from 800Cart. And it works well enough to get most merchants 3-7 links in the top 10 in most search engines.

That’s good enough for most merchants!

Google hints:

Innovation in video on the web

Almost missed this one and it’s important that we pass it along to you.

And it’s another important reason to have a gmail account if your email server keeps returning emails to your ecommerce server/shopping cart for various reasons (like over limit/full, etc).

From the PayPal Blog: New Gmail Labs Feature Helps Verify Emails from PayPal.

800Cart already has a slightly different version of message validation that bypasses email entirely.  It’s in your 800Cart Control Panel main menu: look for ‘Quick Question’ which both bypasses email for delivery, and also certifies that you are the genuine owner of the account for passing critical (and sensitive) instructions to us.

See above and to the right – an astonishingly useful toolbar that will ease your work as a merchant and especially an 800Cart merchant.

Just discovered this gentleman and his ideas are worth mentioning.

I first misread his motto ‘discovering uniqueness by flaunting weakness‘ and it went into my head as ‘discovering success by flaunting weakness’.

Both concepts are worth some serious reflection.

For some of us who have a bit of the ADD thing going on, but refuse to let it be an obstacle to success, Godin discusses a couple of principles we should keep uppermost in our minds.

We too often engage in tactics without considering the strategy.   Godin hits the nail squarely on the head.  Others agree.

Especially his remark about when the tactic fails, we discard the strategy.   See our post here about social networking activity.

Spacelocker is getting bad press and sending out abusive support emails.

Beware – if something goes wrong, it’ your own fault.

“Nobody is collecting names,” said Gibbs at the White House.

Just the email addresses.  You can heave a big sigh of relief!

I feel a lot better now.

Being noted everywhere.  Twitter is down.  Or was.  The way it was last night, it will probably be up and down all day.  DDOS attack they say.

Can anybody just wait petiently until it’s back up?

Pardon?  I thought all keyboards were pressure sensitive?  I press on the ‘a’ key and it types an ‘a’?

Maybe push harder, and it types an A?  Harder and it goes into italic?  Harder still and it goes bold and underlined?

And here.

Well, you can already control your eComemrce from your iPhone or other mobile device.  Why not all you combat units as well?

New Use for Your iPhone: Controlling Drones | Danger Room | Wired.com.

Regardless of the space you occupy on the political spectrum, these demonstrator fashion suggestions are essential to ensuring that your political statement is a complete success.

Texting increases sales?   Apparently so for some types of ecommerce merchants!

via E-Commerce Law: E-Commerce Law Briefs: Week of January 12, 2009.

Apple already has good payment system traction with itunes, with a huge user base.

Are they about to leverage that traction into direct competition with Paypal? Apple vs. PayPal?.

If course, we already published some great advice about making pay downloads more profitable while reaching a much bigger market. Looks like soon we will have to add to our advice on using Paypal with some for Apple on primary payments systems?

It’s easy to feel confused over Social Networking and all the options available. If we were to try to pay strict attention just to twitter and Facebook and a couple of others, then we would have time for little else.

It’s tempting to regard ourselves (and the seemingly wasted activity) like the Wee Guy does as (via) Socially retarded in the UK.   So it’s tempting to accept his sweet thoughts of limiting the social networking stuff to golf with the lads.

It turns out though, that merely being present in social networking can help your business. A lot.

But it doesn’t mean you have to waste time with it. Appearing everywhere are little tools and Widgets that allow you to interconnect all these resources so when you peep up on one, it automatically appears everywhere. I haven’t been to a twitter page in a month. But every day, I get several emails that more people are following me on Twitter because other resources are twittering for me automatically. And this is true for many other resources other than Twitter.   And some of this folks are going to click and come visit our humble abode here at 800Lab/800Cart.

It’s activity in the right general directions that nets you followers in all these places – but don’t make an effort about it – be smart about it and let the gadgets do the work for you.

The author hits on may excellent topics and every point she raises is important!

Building an Ecommerce Site with SEO in Mind

One thing she does not mention is how an off-site shopping cart like 800Cart can legitimately generate 10’s of thousands of honest backlinks to the primary site.

And while her article was not intended to address security, an PCI off-site cart will address security issues that you cannot reasonably address (at least for reasonable cost) with a hosted or dedicated server ecommerce site.

NetSol, of course is one of the oldest and biggest companies in the internet game.  Fortunately, we do not use the EV certificates that casued this problem.

Network Solutions Reports Data Security Issue For Some E-Commerce Merchants.

About 800Cart  PCI Security

Some tips on a good eCommerce shopping experience.  You might be able to learn from Tom’s Shoes, the company you probably saw featured in an AT&T ad.

via Shopper Culture: Special Delivery – Finishing eCommerce Right.