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10 Tips that will make your online shopping site business successful!


1. Keep your site up-to-date
One way to have your customers or prospects return to your site on a regular basis is to keep updating it. Your customers or prospects are always looking for something new at your site. Add new products with new pictures or services or fresh content regularly. Keep your business ongoing and alive. Keeping your site updated is a minimum thing to bring the rank up on the search engines like Yahoo and Google. This will expand your visitors and customers.


2. Use good images.
First, eyes go to pictures before text when your customers or prospects visit your site. Your product photos must be simple, clear, showing the product’s features including good color contrast and brightness. Good images draw customer’s attention. Also customers are more likely to stay on the site longer.


3. See from the customer’s view.
Online customer cannot touch, smell and taste your products. You know your products well. Then, you need to provide those information and pictures to communicate with your customer well.


4. Let’s tell the stories behind your products.
Tell stories, happenings, your commitment or thoughts about your products. Customers will appreciate your products.


5. Follow-up with all your customers.
Sale is just the beginning of your business. Follow-up with your customers and findout whatelse you can do for them. Sending a thank you card to see how they like your products is one idea. Show that you care for your customers. Good customer care service will increase the chance that customers come back to you.


6. Customer Reviews.
Many online shopping sites have customer reviews. Real customers’ voice can be powerful and influences customers when making purchase-decisions. However, fake comments from seller side should be avoided. Customers can sense the most cases.



7. Send Mail Magazines.
Cute Shopping Cart has a E-Mail Magazine function to all subscribers. Let customers know the latest news and beneficial information.

8. Let’s use Online SNS (Social Net Service) tool.
Use the online SNS tools like Twitter,Facebook and blog to create a community. This is a good way to spread disseminate your message and advertise your shop.

9. Internet Advertisement.
Putting ads on Google AdWords and Yahoo Oveture is another way to advertise your shop and the products. For example, when a search result page on Google is related to your products, your ad appears on the page. More people see your ads. Since the advertising cost depends on the number of clicking by users, it is efficient and you could start with a small budget.
　Google AdWords 　　　　Yahoo! Overture



10. Send Press Release to Media.
TV, newspaper, radio and magazines are great opportunities to expose your products. If they pick you, thousands of people will know your products’ presence.