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    OH Noo!! SEO spammers are jumping onto Adwords bandwagon

    I was helping someone once who had fallen for this particular scam and I got to see exactly how it worked. They had a Bed and Breakfast and wanted to be "number one on google" and had signed up to this exact service after a phone call. Basically for a fixed fee of about £75 a month you get to...
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    Mcafee security seal, do people really see a benefit?

    Well I am speaking from experience here. I did not want to sign up to this kind of expense without some kind of proof but I was originally told point blank that McAfee would NOT allow an A/B test until after I had paid my fee upfront. At this point I was happy to walk away. The sales guy then...
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    Mcafee security seal, do people really see a benefit?

    The original point here however is do you see a benefit if you purchase one of these seals, at £1,200 a year they are not cheap. Because McAfee won't allow you to do your own A/B testing you have to therefore guess at the effectiveness of these on your own website and whether or not they will...
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    Mcafee security seal, do people really see a benefit?

    Sorry I should of been clearer on this point. We installed some code into our site in order to do the A/B test and their software recorded the results. The 16% increase was what the test showed at the end of the month. My point was that in reality it was nothing like the figures shown by...
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    Mcafee security seal, do people really see a benefit?

    I have personal experience of this.... They rang me up and tried to sell me the idea but I refused, they eventually sold me on the idea of doing a 1 month A/B test and if the results were positive I agreed I would buy into it. The results were sent to me after a month and they showed an...
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    Help with potential costs of a retail shop

    I second this and have to say it's the best advice I have ever seen on a forum..... ever.... (I speak from personal experience :))
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    Charge before dispatch

    No problem, glad you understand... we still have customers that expect a 1200mm shower enclosure costing in excess of £2,000 to be in stock and delivered by 9am the next morning (even if they ring at 4pm !!!).
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    Charge before dispatch

    No thats not true apart from with a few specialist items you wouldn't expect in stock. This generally happens when we place an order with a supplier and we have a rush on a particular item, we then have items sold that we are waiting for in the delivery from the supplier. In an ideal world...
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    Charge before dispatch

    Many thanks for the reply, it has answered the question perfectly and is as we expected. We generally deliver within 4 working days but today received a complaint that the money had been taken 2 days before the item was depatched and needed to confirm that we had done nothing wrong. I couldn't...
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    Charge before dispatch

    Not really just need to know whether it is wrong to take payment for an order before the item is dispatched. If the customer orders the item and pays for it on Monday and we are not going to dispatch the item until thursday when we receive the delivery from our suppliers then have we done...
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    Charge before dispatch

    Can someone clarify the rules for me. If you get an online / mail order and charge for it, then order the goods from the supplier and dispatch them when they arrive, have you done anything wrong ?
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    Affiliate management systems

    Charging £900 isn't just a way to deter non serious or rubbish sites but it helps ! At the end of the day you require a service from one of these companies and each has set out the amount that they want for that service. They already have done much of the work to attract the very best...
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    Affiliate management systems

    Because if webgains / affiliate companies took on every single website for free that wanted affiliate sales then they would go bust tomorrow setting up and managing new accounts and only get sales from 10% of them. They make a commitment to the affiliates to only introduce programs that will...
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    Affiliate management systems

    I too am with webgains and have found them very good. In terms of the setup costs it works both ways, why should they invest lots of time and money to get your program off the ground and working only to find that your service is terrible to the end customer and you keep asking for reversals on...
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    ShopWiki - anyone know anything about them?

    The only thing with Kelkoo and like minded sites is that they charge per click and this can be very expensive and there is no guarantee of a conversion. We used these methods early on and it didn't work for us. One month we had a lot of sales but the cost was enormous and then another we had...
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