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New Webinar Series: How To Drive Sales Using Advanced Marketing Strategies

Published on August 2nd, 2011 by luke.dyer

Overview: New advanced webinar series
Title: How To Drive Sales Using Advanced Marketing Strategies
When? 1pm CDT on Wednesday, August 10th (See this in your time zone)
Register: Click here to register (limited spots available)


We already run regular webinars that teach the basics of e-commerce and BigCommerce, but today I’m happy to announce that we’re adding a fourth series to our already popular webinars.

Lead by certified BigCommerce design partner and e-commerce experts Madwire Media, How To Drive Sales Using Advanced Marketing Strategies is our latest webinar series and the first webinar kicks off at 1pm CDT on Wednesday, August 10th (see this in your time zone).

So, what will you learn during this free webinar? Here’s a taste:

  • Automatically targeting customers after purchase
  • Retargeting customers based on what they buy
  • Increasing conversion rate using promotional banners
  • When it’s best to offer time sensitive promotions
  • Strategies to increase sales using gift certificates
  • How to find and promote your best selling products
  • Analyzing abandoned cart data to improve conversions
  • How to manage orders and inventory for multiple stores
  • Dropshipping strategies to manage multiple vendors

Click here to register (limited spots available)

Announcing Our New Marketing Site for Small Business, ChiliFries.com

Published on June 29th, 2011 by Mitchell Harper

Guess what – we’ve been working on a new content website for the last few months and today is launch day!

The new site is called ChiliFries.com and it was created to help you become an expert at Internet marketing, search engine optimization (SEO) and e-commerce!

Our new website is updated regularly with fresh content and will teach you:

  • Search engine optimization
  • Search engine marketing
  • Social media marketing
  • E-Commerce strategy
  • On-site merchandising
  • Public relations
  • Conversion optimization

… and lots of other tips, tricks, strategies and ideas which you can use to either start a new e-commerce business or grow your existing e-commerce business faster than you thought possible.

Go to ChiliFries.com

View the press release here

P.S. Really important – make sure you like ChiliFries on Facebook and follow ChiliFries on Twitter so you don’t miss a post!

P.P.S. Become part of the ChiliFries community by leaving comments on a few posts you like. It’s fast, easy and is a great way to meet like-minded business owners.

Free Guide: 20 Proven Ways to Jump Start Your Online Sales

Published on February 7th, 2011 by Mitchell Harper

eBook: 20 Proven Ways to Jump Start Your Online Sales

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If you’re just getting started with e-commerce then it can be a bit daunting to know what to do once you’ve added products to your BigCommerce store. Do you run Google AdWords? Should you hire an SEO consultant? This is a question we hear a lot, so Luke (our ninja technical writer) and I decided to team up and write a guide for you.

In 20 Proven Ways to Jump Start Your Online Sales we share 20 simple, fast and (mostly) free strategies you can implement right now to boost traffic to your BigCommerce store. The goal here is to get your first order in the next few days and then build up from there.

Like anything worth doing, it can take time to receive your first order. But hang in there – it will happen. After receiving your first order, you’ll soon get your second, third, fourth and before you know it you’ll be receiving multiple orders a day.

These strategies are simple but extremely effective. Here’s a list of the strategies in the free guide – each is broken down into actionable steps complete with videos and/or step-by-step tutorials to guide you through the specific action items:

  1. Integrate Google Analytics with your online store
  2. Submit your products to Google Merchant Center
  3. Setup your shipping FAQ & returns policy page
  4. Submit your online store to all free directories
  5. Create a fan page on Facebook and setup SocialShop
  6. Link to your Facebook page from your online store
  7. Share your Facebook page with friends
  8. Setup integrations with Shopzilla, PriceGrabber, etc
  9. Setup your home page title, META keywords and description
  10. Add your page title, META keywords and description for products
  11. Add keyword rich descriptions to all product photos
  12. Make sure your product pages are filled out completely
  13. Create an “About Us” page with your store and photos
  14. Announce the launch of your store in related forums
  15. Get a 1800 phone number and add it to your website
  16. Setup and use free live chat software
  17. Setup your “Contact Us” page
  18. Create targeted link exchanges
  19. Setup email marketing with Mailchimp
  20. Run mutli-variate tests Google Website Optimizer

Click here to download our free guide: 20 Proven Ways to Jump Start Your Online Sales

Free Guide: Guerilla Marketing With Social Media

Published on November 28th, 2010 by Mitchell Harper

eBook: Guerilla Marketing With Social Media

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Well, the holiday season is almost upon us. As a way to say “thank you” for reading our blog (which now has over 50,000 readers a month – woohoo!) I wanted to give you a 27 page ebook that’s been 6 months in the making.

In Guerilla Marketing With Social Media I share the 7 social media strategies we’ve used to grow our business by 480% in the last 3 years (proof). And because these are all guerilla marketing strategies, you’ll learn how to reach a huge number of people for a very, very low cost.

This has been one of the most successful guides we’ve ever produced – it’s already been downloaded well over 5,000 times by people on our email list (sorry, they got it first!) so I’m confident you’ll love it.

Whether you want to increase sales, attract thousands of Facebook followers, launch a contest, partner with the big wigs in your industry or turn one-time customers into raving fans, it’s all here in this 27 page ebook.

Click here to download our free guide: Guerilla Marketing With Social Media

[Video] The 5 Step Autoresponder Blueprint

Published on September 28th, 2010 by Mitchell Harper

Please note: Sound quality in this video is still quite poor due to the acoustics of our new office so if you’re someone who needs perfect quality sound to watch and enjoy a video then this might not be for you. We’re currently looking at different ways to improve the acoustics of our new office.

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In this video I share a simple but very effective autoresponder series you can use to convert newsletter subscribers to customers and then customers to repeat customers and raving fans.

If you’re not using autoresponders in your marketing then you’re definitely leaving money on the table, and it’s easier than you think to implement them in your e-commerce business. Watch this video to learn how, regardless of which e-commerce platform you’re using.