Every day we, at nopCommerce, do our best to give you an outstanding experience with the platform. And you contribute by choosing to stay with us, by being active within the community, and in many other ways.
We believe that to make our efforts more meaningful, the community should be evolving and growing. To draw more attention to our shopping cart, we would like our users to leave reviews on well-known third-party sites.
We know how important is that you can use different types of discounts in your online store to offer your customers good deals. It helps to get their loyalty and drive more sales, of course.
Usually, pop-ups are looked down by the marketers and customers. First association with pop-ups would be nasty little boxes, which are jumping into our monitor immediately after entering the store. If you think about pop-ups in the same way, please give them a chance. Pop-ups are bit annoying, but… they work and work well. When properly organized pop-ups can be helpful for customers and effectively increase profits.
Any online business can easily connect with the customers and prospects in a highly targeted way by a simple email and that is what makes email marketing by far the most effective way of growing your business. According to the Direct Marketing Association, email marketing is responsible for bringing in $40 for every $1 spent. If emails are kept short, interesting, relevant and providing the customers (recipients) an option to unsubscribe, it has the potential to bring a lot of revenue.
Today, stepping into an eCommerce industry and launching an online store site is quite easy & fast. You pick a clever domain name, choose a platform, get a nice-looking theme and voila! - you are ready to launch. In fact, if you are using an eCommerce solution like nopCommerce, you can have your store site up and running in less than five minutes.
Greeting your customers with a personalized experience is not only going to improve the first impression but will also set your eCommerce store apart from the competitors. Adding personalization to the business website is part of enhancing the level of customer experience that has become one of the top priorities for store owners because it is something that acts as a differentiator in this competitive eCommerce industry. Even little details can make a big difference in terms of how customers feel about products and the company. There are several ways to personalize the experience of your customers.
As an open source product, we strongly believe in community values and always encourage our users to contribute by exchanging experience, supporting each other and inspiring new members to join. That was the main reason why we decided to start nopCommerce meetups.
In reality, new business owners wear many hats since they are trying to do everything on their own. Getting involved in so many things at the same time can lead to not paying attention to some critical tasks that can threaten the business's long-term viability.
There is always a learning curve for every business owner in every industry irrespective of how successful the business is. Some business owners or entrepreneurs learn how to run a successful business quite early while some learn the hard way by making mistakes and suffering the consequences.
nopCommerce's marketplace has over 1600 themes and plugins, and the list is constantly growing. Many plugins are developed by our community, whereas some important and strategic are our Technology Partners. This means the plugins are free and are developed by the nopCommerce team.
In this post we are going to give a short overview of those integrations and explain how they can benefit your operations and the business as a whole.
For many new entrepreneurs, selecting a product to sell is one of the biggest challenges when starting out an e-Commerce. If this initial step of selecting the right product is executed correctly then you have won the half battle. However, coming up with product ideas can be challenging and sometimes you may feel like everything has been done already. But, there are plenty of opportunities out there, you just have to know where and how to look for the right product that you can sell online.