Showing posts with label ecommerce. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ecommerce. Show all posts

Friday, 5 October 2012

5 Sites Where You Can Download Free Ebay Template & Designs

It is no secret that if you want to make money selling products on Ebay you need to write compelling product description backed with captivating template designs.

In this blog post, am listing 5 websites where you can download ebay templates and designs.

The templates allow you to customize them to meet your needs and desire.


Download Auctiva Ebay Template & Designs
Auctiva.com is an eBay auction management system. They claim to offer the largest selection of eBay listing templates. 
There product features consist of
  • A quick, easy-to-use One-Page Lister 
  • FREE Scrolling Gallery 
  • Abundant help resources 
  • World-class customer support 
  • Compatibility with eBay's latest features & policies 
  • Frequent updates
  • E-commerce education and expert advice 

Auctiva offer both free and fee-based services, including: free image hosting up to 1GB (about 10,000 images), auction gallery, auto-relisting, billing support, automatic seller-to-buyer e-mails, free picture uploads, scheduled listings, listing designer, supersizing pictures, and consignment support. Pricing plans range from free to $19.95 per month.

Download Share Your Design Ebay Templates

Share your design is more like a social network of ebay templates. Apart from downloading free designs you can also upload your templates and share them with other ebay sellers.  The templates look cheap and unremarkable.

Download Listtailor Ebay Templates & designs

The have only five free template designs to choose from. Select any available templates, enter your item information and then upload images. Modifications will remain in tact until you close your browser.

Auctiongen Ebay Templates & Designs
Auctiongen is a great site that provides text generators to let you make unique graphics for your ebay auction listings. 

Some of their features are:-
  • Quick and easy to use
  • Choose from several templates in different categories
  • Host the images on a 3rd party site like photobucket
  • We give you the HTML code to use on your auction listing

Download Auctionlist Generator Ebay Templates & Design
Auctionlist is the only generator of ebay templates with cool designs. They provide 16 free templates and other premium templates that are sold as a pack. The premium pack comes with over ebay ready 100 templates.

Here is to bountiful ebay sales!

Tuesday, 2 October 2012

Most Attractive E-commerce Website Designs

The best way to build an attractive e-commerce website for your online business is by taking inspiration from some of the best e-commerce website designs.

Qualities of a good e-commerce website
An attractive e-commerce website must meet the following qualities
  1. Love
  2. Trust
  3. Purpose

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. Edgar Allan Poe

A first time visitor to your e-commerce website must see you sell what he/she wants, he/she must love being there and he must feel he can trust buying from you. All this must happen in an instant or else the visitor will close your homepage and go elsewhere.

The following are some of the best e-commerce website designs that meet my criteria of attractiveness (Love, Trust and Purpose)

1. Amazon.com
Amazon.com is the king of e-commerce. Amazon has annual revenues of $50 billion and all that is sold via their website.
To do those kind of sales they must be doing something right. Trust comes easy for this website because Amazon.com is a well known brand and everyone knows them. You can build trust for your e-commerce website by promoting your online store through media mentions and advertising.

The design allows visitors to search products in terms of categories, price, age, color, delivery etc.

2. Reeds.com

You know what reeds.com sell the minute you open their homepage. Make sure your e-commerce website homepage has large size images of your products. The homepage is the first page a new visitor clicks on and first impressions matter.

On the homepage include sweeteners such as special offers, discounts and free shipping to encourage visitors to buy.

3. Apple Store
Make it easy and quick.


Apple is known for well designed products. The Iphone, Ipod and Ipad are not just well designed but they are easy to use. And that spirit is showcased on Apple online store.

The menu at the top is designed to help a visitor go straight to the product he is interested in.

Make it easy for buyers to find what they are looking for.

4. Petflow.com
If you are selling hundreds of products you should go with a design similar to petflow.com.

They sell hundreds of pet brands and they have a list of all the available brands at the bottom of the homepage. If you want a particular brand you just click on the name and you go straight to the product.

It is a nice way of solving the problem of how to promote hundreds of products.

Monday, 25 June 2012

Killers Strategies of Making Money With A Website


A website is a good platform of making money. The success of websites such Amazon.com, zappos.com is evidence that there is money to be made by creating a website to sell products.

This article will show you top notch strategies that you can use to make money with a website. 

1. It is better to sell a specific product than all product

Don't try to be Amazon.com. Try to sell every product under the sun is bad strategy. Targeting everyone is basically equal to targeting no one. Be specific about your target audience. It is easier to make money when your website is focused in selling a single product.

2. Website Development Platform

My favorite website design software is WordPress. Wordpress comes free of charge when you purchase web hosting.  Wordpress will full fill most of the small business website requirements.

Benefits of wordpress,
  •     You can manage your website really easily without the help of a coder
  •     You can enhance your website using plugins
  •     WordPress websites usually get indexed in the Google pretty fast
3.  Website Template / Theme Design

The design you choose for your website will determine whether customers will buy from your website or close your website. Your strategy for designing a money making website should be; the design should tell a visitor what the website is about. If you sell sunglasses you should have images of eye wear everywhere.

I recommend you purchase a premium e-commerce wordpress theme.


4. Content For Your Money Making Website

Following are the most important pages for a website designed to make money.

    Home
    About
    Services
    Testimonials
    Contact Us
    Blog
First of all you must have all the above pages on your website as bare minimum and secondly make sure these pages are easily accessible through your main navigation.

A blog is not a must but research shows, companies that blog get 55% more traffic. You can use the blog to connect with your customers. 



5. Capture E-mails And Send Out A Newsletter

Make an effort to get email addresses of your buyers. You can then use the email to send them a newsletter with information on future promotions and product announcement.  If someone buys from your website today, he is more likely to buy again and again.

The trick with getting people to part with emails is to offer them something free. It can be a gift voucher or a report. A strategy that have seen work is offering people an opportunity to enter a competition to win a free voucher or free stuff (that is if you can afford it).

6 Connect Your Website with Facebook, Twitter and Google Plus.
Use social media websites such as Facebook and Twitter to drive traffic back to your business website.
Place social media buttons on your website so that visitors can easily connect.