Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping
28th September 2019, 06:35 AM
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Replies: 1
Views: 187 eCommerce too hard
I ran an online store for 15+ years and earlier in the year I passed it on to my best employee while keeping a minority of ownership for myself. It was running on a custom platform but the new owner...
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Forum: Social Media
20th April 2016, 05:10 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 339 Social media strategy for online store?
My online store gets most of its traffic from SEO and PPC. I've been posting one product per day to the store's social media accounts for a long time but that doesn't seem to be a very effective...
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Forum: Ad Networks (CPM/CPL, Display)
20th April 2016, 03:28 AM
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Replies: 0
Views: 221 Is this about buying individual ads?
I'm familiar with SEO and PPC. Is this forum section about buying ads on sites one at a time? I've experimented with that in the past but I've never been able to generate many sales in my online...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
20th April 2016, 03:01 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 236 |
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
19th April 2016, 09:05 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 236 Re: Marketing without coding
I'm actually trying to put that together right now, but is there anything worth pursuing for my non-coder employees?
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
19th April 2016, 07:43 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 236 Marketing without coding
I've been running an online store for many years and I pull in traffic with SEO and AdWords. I have more marketing ideas but they all require me to code and that can only happen so quickly. I have...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
22nd April 2014, 04:20 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 601 |
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
21st April 2014, 09:56 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 601 |
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
21st April 2014, 06:09 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 601 Respond to complaintsboard.com complaints?
I have a few complaints on complaintsboard.com. Should I respond to the complaints? My strategy has been to ignore them so they would have less content with which to rank but that doesn't seem to be...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
10th March 2014, 09:37 AM
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Replies: 13
Views: 650 |
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
9th March 2014, 08:13 AM
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Replies: 13
Views: 650 Re: Similar domain name -- legal issues?
I have a couple different situations. (The domain names below are fake.)
I've been doing business under widget-store.com for many years and I don't have a trademark. No other ecommerce site...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
8th March 2014, 06:31 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 650 |
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
8th March 2014, 09:06 AM
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Replies: 13
Views: 650 |
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
2nd March 2014, 05:42 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 589 |
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
2nd March 2014, 07:38 AM
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Replies: 13
Views: 589 Re: How much traffic does a domain get?
The traffic will be low for sure, but the point of buying them would be to redirect people to my domain. The idea is that some people are accidentally typing in these other domains instead of mine....
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
1st March 2014, 07:26 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 589 How much traffic does a domain get?
I'm considering buying a couple of domains that are for sale that are similar to my own domain. How can I estimate how much type-in traffic they receive?
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Forum: Social Media
10th February 2014, 11:45 AM
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Replies: 0
Views: 237 FB: First Impressions = Best Impressions ?
Does FB show the day's first impressions to the most qualified users and then once they run out, starting showing impressions to less qualified users? So, for example, the first $5 of a $10 daily...
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Forum: Social Media
7th January 2014, 01:48 PM
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Replies: 0
Views: 323 |
Forum: Social Media
20th December 2013, 09:59 AM
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Replies: 22
Views: 677 Re: Has FB advertising gotten better?
This got me thinking. I know retargeting can be accomplished with people who have visited your own website, but Is there any way to retarget to people who have visited your FB page?
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Forum: Social Media
18th December 2013, 05:07 PM
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Replies: 22
Views: 677 Re: Has FB advertising gotten better?
I've had many years of experience with Google Adwords but I couldn't seem to make FB ads work. I tried every type of FB ad and used the power editor extensively. Sending people to my site always...
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Forum: Social Media
18th December 2013, 08:57 AM
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Replies: 22
Views: 677 Re: Has FB advertising gotten better?
In a broad sense, which are the possible angles to play? I've been focused on conversions (orders placed) on my site because that's the only way I can calculate an ROI.
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Forum: Social Media
17th December 2013, 04:13 PM
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Replies: 22
Views: 677 Has FB advertising gotten better?
I'm an online retailer of stuff the typical FB user actually does like. I spent an obscene amount of time trying to get FB ads to work for my store but in the end I had to give up. Have FB ads...
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Forum: Social Media
17th December 2013, 03:15 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 326 Re: maximizing Wanelo
I just searched the placements in my AdWords account but wanelo.com doesn't seem to exist there. Am I missing something?
EDIT: Post above mine deleted.
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Forum: Social Media
17th December 2013, 01:08 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 326 maximizing Wanelo
Has anyone found a good way to maximize Wanelo (wanelo.com)? My store is very popular there and I'd like to take advantage of that.
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Forum: Social Media
14th October 2013, 11:53 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 326 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
10th June 2013, 07:23 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 635 Re: Google Remarketing conversions very low
I mean no disrespect, but I have to ask this question again because I think it could be really important:
"How can I use a lower number when running a campaign than that of my cookie expiration?"...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
10th June 2013, 06:41 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 635 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
10th June 2013, 04:55 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 635 Re: Google Remarketing conversions very low
OK, I'll reduce the cookie expiration. Is there a good way to figure out the optimal amount of time for this? Here's the articles that recommends 540 days in all situations:
15 Tips for...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
9th June 2013, 04:09 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 635 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
8th June 2013, 09:23 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 635 Google Remarketing conversions very low
I've read about the excellent conversion rates some are seeing via Google Remarketing. My online retail site converts around 2.5% overall but is converting only about .7% of GR traffic. What sort...
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Forum: Social Media
28th May 2013, 11:52 AM
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Replies: 2
Views: 294 |
Forum: Social Media
27th May 2013, 11:16 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 294 |
Forum: Social Media
25th May 2013, 06:46 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 416 |
Forum: Social Media
21st May 2013, 09:30 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 633 Re: Valuating a Facebook Like
adeelv, I'm not sure what you mean here. How can info like this be used in an ROI calculation to determine how much to bid on FB advertising?
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Forum: Ad Networks (CPM/CPL, Display)
21st May 2013, 09:25 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 486 |
Forum: Social Media
19th May 2013, 04:05 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 633 Re: Valuating a Facebook Like
I think this is meant to be a vote in favor of Promoted Posts over Page Post Ads, but Page Post Ads can target only the News Feed if created or edited in the Power Editor. Also if you bid via CPC...
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Forum: Social Media
18th May 2013, 04:22 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 633 Re: Valuating a Facebook Like
Eye-opening. Thank you ronrule and FirstSocialApps. I hadn't read up on Edge Rank.
Would you choose the Promoted Posts method over Page Post Ads for reaching more of the people who have liked...
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Forum: Ad Networks (CPM/CPL, Display)
18th May 2013, 03:59 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 486 Advertising on Amazon
I'd like to advertise my online store on amazon.com since it's such a popular marketplace but I'm scared they'll "eat my lunch" and start selling the same stuff I do for a lower price. Because of...
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Forum: Social Media
18th May 2013, 01:40 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 633 Re: Valuating a Facebook Like
ronrule,
Are you sure? My personal FB account likes my business FB page and posts to the business page show up in the personal account's news feed every single time.
Are you referring to...
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Forum: Social Media
18th May 2013, 11:28 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,047 Re: Check your Facebook PNG files....
lexilexi, don't you find that Facebook does some pretty heavy-handed recompression of uploaded JPGs? The only way around that I found was uploading PNGs instead.
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Forum: Social Media
17th May 2013, 10:16 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 633 Re: Valuating a Facebook Like
ReferralCandy, the problem with that sort of tracking is:
1. it makes for big ugly URLs
2. it doesn't track someone who visits by clicking a tagged link, leaves, and then returns in a new session...
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Forum: Social Media
17th May 2013, 09:22 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,047 |
Forum: Social Media
16th May 2013, 12:23 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,047 Check your Facebook PNG files....
Facebook seemed to drastically reduce the quality of uploaded JPEGs so I started uploading PNGs and everything looked great. Today my uploaded PNGs look terrible. Facebook seems to have reduced the...
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Forum: Social Media
16th May 2013, 12:11 AM
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Replies: 18
Views: 633 Valuating a Facebook Like
I'm used to bidding in AdWords based on ROI. Bidding in Facebook is tricky since I can't seem to come up with any conversions via the tracker. Bidding for likes should be a lot easier and more...
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Forum: Social Media
15th May 2013, 11:38 PM
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Replies: 0
Views: 379 |
Forum: Social Media
15th May 2013, 11:25 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 816 |
Forum: Social Media
15th May 2013, 08:20 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 816 |
Forum: Ad Networks (CPM/CPL, Display)
11th May 2013, 02:52 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 766 Re: Which retailers use Adroll?
It seems like there isn't much in the way of online retailers although I see Overstock uses them. How about Amazon? Buy.com?
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Forum: Ad Networks (CPM/CPL, Display)
10th May 2013, 11:53 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 766 |
Forum: Social Media
10th May 2013, 04:05 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 770 Re: Facebook vs. AdWords
PPC-Coach:
Has anyone heard of anyone having success with a version of their store in a Facebook app?
abbe77:
Interesting point. I've always gone for sales and direct conversion ROI. ...
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Forum: Social Media
10th May 2013, 03:52 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 351 |
Forum: Social Media
9th May 2013, 09:49 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 770 Re: Facebook vs. AdWords
Thanks everyone. My site is an online store selling home decor items. Facebook CPC seems to be much higher than AdWords CPC and I don't see how the quality could be anywhere near comparable.
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Forum: Social Media
9th May 2013, 05:29 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 770 Facebook vs. AdWords
I'm used to AdWords which seems to have much lower CPCs than Facebook, and clicks from which are a lot higher quality because they originate with someone actively searching for something that is...
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Forum: Social Media
8th May 2013, 10:27 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 351 Linking to/from various social media sites
I have a Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Tumblr account for my business. With Facebook I've been able to link to the other accounts by pinning a post to the top of the timeline with links to the...
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Forum: Social Media
8th May 2013, 01:54 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,030 |
Forum: Social Media
7th May 2013, 09:49 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,030 |