By Lars Lofgren

If you’re building a site that’s 100% focused on content or 100% focused on ecommerce, the best choice on how to build your site is very clear.

What WordPress does best = Content

WordPress is now a decade old and is still the reigning champ for managing sites with a ton of content. If you plan on pursuing an SEO or content marketing strategy for your business, WordPress is the only legitimate choice for your site. Nothing else comes close to giving you all the features that you need to manage so much content along with all the extra functionality for SEO …read more      

By Sonia Simone

This week, we had a flavorful collection of tools, tips, and techniques that will enhance your skills as a professional…

The post Boost Your Professional Skills with Cilantro, Selling, and Social Media appeared first on Copyblogger.

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By Lars Lofgren

We’ve covered the high-level strategy of building an online store that makes real money here.

But how do we create the ecommerce website itself?

Below, you’ll find the 9 steps you need to take to create an ecommerce site.

In this guide, we cover:

1. The one and only ecommerce tool that we use to build our sites
2. The payment setting that can accidentally reduce your revenue by increasing refunds and chargebacks
3. The biggest myth of pricing and how real ecommerce website owners set their prices
4. What to put on your homepage to convert more customers
5. What an SSL certificate is and why you need one …read more      
   

By Jerod Morris

Why do you use social media? It’s not a rhetorical question. I really want you to answer. In the comments…

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By Lars Lofgren

There’s a bunch of steps that go into starting an online store.

What tool do you build your store with?

What do you name your company and how do you get a domain?

Do you dropship or not?

How do you deal with taxes?

All of these are important decisions. For now, one thing matters more than anything else to get your first sale.

What’s that one thing?

Your marketing.

That’s right, how you choose to market your store completely determines how much money you’ll make. Get the marketing right, everything else falls into place. Get it wrong or neglect it, you’ll spend years on your store without …read more