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    Are Lead Generation Companies any good?

    We have created a new ecommerce offering and just launched our new website buildmeashop.com. We obviously need leads to qualify so was wondering if anyone has/had experience of using lead generation companies and if they delivered results? Grateful for any recommends.
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    Inventory Control

    ...though about moving to Magento and having all three shops running from there?
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    Buying stock upfront versus dropshipping

    I would suggest that a new business needs to 'add value' by stocking products that you know like and trust. That way you can build up knowledge and expertise about the products that you can share on your new shop and build up a loyal customer base from people buying from you where you are able...
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    How to increase weekend sales?

    Why not try an email shot to your customer base stating 'weekend offer of x% discount'? We do this with our hot tub accessories, make sure it goes out on around Friday lunchtime.
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    Email marketing software?

    ..we always use Mailchimp.
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    Which e-commerce platform?

    I guess it's fair to say that the whole ecommerce market is still pretty much in its infancy a bit like typing using computers was 30 years or so ago (now called Word Processing!). To draw an analogy with the plethora of ecommerce platforms there are out there, be it self-hosted, hosted or...
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    How do I find a mentor?

    Following on from my last post as the thread has given me an idea! We are looking for a mentor (or maybe a consultant) to help with launching our new hosted shopping platform concept to a 'local' market. If we tried adwords for 'online shop' we'd be up against ekm powershop, volusion. et al and...
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    How do I find a mentor?

    We tried this after receiving an email saying that there was oodles of money left and it was designed for businesses 'just like ours' so filled in the online application form and was rejected straight away. No reason, no feedback - useless!
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    Google Shopping - Does it really work?

    In our experience, Google shopping costs are high especially for low margin, highly competitive products even in a niche market like hours. We sell hot tub chemicals and accessories (pretty niche) and when people are searching for the staple items such as chlorine granules, tablets etc then a...
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    Domain Change

    Hi Dinlow. You don't need another database. Just find the core_config_data file in your database and change the value of these 2 fields to your new domain: web/secure/base_url and web/unsecure/base_url. Also, make sure that the document root of your new add-on domain is actually pointing to...
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    The Default Magento search provides irrelevant results, is there any other option?

    We find Klevu search to be really good. It does auto-complete, the search results are relevant and nicely formatted and it's free for the basic version, which works fine with most small shops.
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    Domain Change

    What do you mean by 'another domain on the same cpanel'? Do you mean you want to change the domain to a new one, or do you mean that you want to move to an add-on domain or a sub-domain of your existing domain? All are pretty easy unless you've got a lot of hard-coded image file names or hyperlinks
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    Choosing an ecommerce solution

    We looked at a number of ecommerce solutions for our family business selling hot tubs, chemicals, spares and accessories, abut 8 years ago when the whole online selling 'game' was pretty much in its infancy. We started using an open-source solution called Roman Cart but when our inventory...
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