The Power of Niche in eCommerce [Video]

Last week I spoke at the Catex SW Conference in Truro, Cornwall. My topic was “The Power of Niche” – not just one little marketing tactic, a strategic idea that can shape your whole business and build you a great business. It’s an idea that I’ve written about in my books, and also talk about at most full-day workshops I do.

It’s such a powerful topic that I thought I should share it a bit wider! So, I recorded the audio last week, and I’ve combined that with the slides to bring you this video.

If you’d like to find out more about how the power of niche could help your business then get one of my books, or get in contact!

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Which eCommerce Platform is Right for Me? [Infographic]

This infographic has a lovely flow-through to help you work out which sort of eCommerce solution to go for.

Whilst it’s focused on getting you onto either Shopify, Magento, or BigCommerce – which is quite a small number of options(!) – it is packed with useful things you should be considering. Continue reading…

The Anatomy of a Perfect Landing Page [Infographic]

I thought this infographic, whilst not purely eCommerce, would fit rather nicely with the site review video I posted on Monday.

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Why you should care about your AOV

Average Order Value by Month

Last month Abacus published the latest copy of their Home Shopping Trends report. Hidden away amongst the other cracking data was a chart of AOV (average order value) by month over the last 2 years. Many eCommerce businesses are guilty of focusing too much on Sales Value and not enough on order volumes or AOV, [...]

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eCommerce Website Review – Willis Judd [Video]

At all the eCommerce MasterPlan In A Day events I’ve been running, the live website review has consistently been voted one of the most useful parts of the day. So, I thought I should bring it to more people! This is the first of a series of monthly site reviews I’m going to be doing [...]

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eCommerce MasterPlan 1.8 – sneak preview of the cover!

Cover eCommerce MasterPlan 1.8

As you know at the moment I’m working on my second book – eCommerce MasterPlan 1.8 – it’s a re-write of the first half of the Original eCommerce MasterPlan. I’ve decided to re-write it to improve lots of little things and ultimately make it an easy book for you, the reader, to use. Last month [...]

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What Promotions did you use in 2012?

Catalogue Cover Promotions 2012 2011

I came across this graph in the March issue of Direct Commerce magazine and just had to share it with you! It’s shows what promotions were being put on the front cover of Mail Order catalogues in 2011 and 2012 – month by month. How does it stack up to what you were doing?

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How does Facebook EdgeRank Work? [Infographic]

This is possibly my favourite infographic of the year so far… If you want to succeed on Facebook you have to understand EdgeRank – the algorithm that determines what appears in each individual’s news feed on Facebook. The vast majority of interactions with your content on Facebook will happen in people’s news feeds – so [...]

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Home Shopping Annual Trends – Shocking end to 2012

Abacus Home Shopping Report 2013

Earlier this month Abacus published the latest copy of their Home Shopping Trends report. It’s packed with cracking data on monthly sales performance in the Home Shopping marketplace. So whilst not covering the whole of eCommerce, it gives us a great set of benchmarks for understanding industry performance in the UK – if you’ve never [...]

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