eCorner eCommerce Google Group

eCommerce and ERP Integration

2009-02-04T23:25:49Z

Is it important to have your eCommerce website talking to your back
end financial or ERPsystem? We see lots of companies every week who
are looking to start an online store (eCommerce Website). It may be
B2B or B2C and there is always a long list of requirements. In fact we
probably have seen every requirement ever written for an eCommerce

Online Christmas Sales Were Up.

2009-01-06T01:05:11Z

Predictions of a gloomy Christmas for retailers are falling on deaf
ears in the world of ecommerce, where online businesses are reporting
strong and growing activity as the festive season drew to a close and
January sales started. Online sales by our customers have risen by 70
per cent in the past 12 months with significant growth in the past few

Preparing for Christmas 2008

2008-10-11T07:28:17Z

When the Christmas decoration start appearing in the supermarkets and
department stores you know the Christmas buying season is well
underway. But are you ready to take advantage of the huge opportunity
that Christmas brings to online stores?

How will Christmas 2008 be different?

If we think about the second question first then it may help us to set

ePages 5.04 and Search Engine Optimisation

2008-07-30T06:40:31Z

What ePages 5.04 Offers for SEO

There are various features of ePages 5.04 which have been built
specifically to improve Search Engine Opimisation. You can Contact
eCorner to receive your copy of "eCorner ePages Search Engine Advice
for ePages 5.04" PDF.

URL

Session IDs often generate long chains of letters and num¬bers in the

FAQ about the legal terms on your web store

2008-03-25T04:31:01Z

So what are the legal components that you should think about for your
website and how do they affect the success of the website?

Physical address and contact details

I always recommend contact details containing a real address and phone
number (maybe fax) are clearly shown on the website.

What should I get out of a free trial?

2008-02-03T21:26:11Z

Many people who will read this are just looking at eCommerce
technology and wondering how it works. The decision to use a
particular vendor has not been made. So there is an obvious question.

What should you expect to accomplish by taking a test drive?

That is a good question and one you should have an answer for before

How much does it cost to start an eBusiness

2008-01-01T00:02:37Z

Lets run through some costs that you will need to budget. These do not
include your normal business costs for example buying stock or paying
your BAS and IAS. With an eBusiness you may not have the cost of
phyical offices or shops and the staff numbers needed may be much
lower. However there are still the normal business running costs that

View this page "eCorner Frequently Asked Questions"

2007-12-05T22:46:44Z

Hi everyone,

We have created links to the Frequently Asked Questions on our eCorner
Forum at Google Groups. As we add new subjects we will keep this
updated.

Click on [link]
- or copy & paste it into your browser's address bar if that doesn't

A few tips about Google Adwords

2007-11-29T07:05:24Z

Google offered us a free review and optimisation and it resulted in
less click-thru's and less conversions. We now have a lot of campaigns
and have learnt mostly from trial and error. We have also tried Yahoo
search marketing but it did not deliver the results we expected. We
use Sensis and they do deliver lots of traffic at a relatively low

Keep your website simple

2007-10-28T22:02:38Z

Recently we had a customer who had a idea for a very complex website.
It had lots of Flash and icons with a very different look and feel on
the home page. His 15 year old daughter liked music and flash with
avatars on websites she visited.
The purpose of the site was to sell a product and the demographic was

Re: Multi lingual websites and keywords

2007-10-24T07:07:20Z

Hi Bev,
Yes people using a foreign languages will search on keywords in
foreign languages and they are likely to search using both the
accented and non-accented versions of the words. So your main keywords
should be in each language (with and without accents if your keyboard
can handle it). Following are some tools that you can use to find

Multi lingual websites and keywords

2007-10-24T06:26:52Z

Hi John
I have a question for you about keywords.
As you know I run a multi-lingual website using ePages technology for a
not-for-profit organisation - how do the keywords work where you have
several languages?
I have tried to add some keywords in each language.
Are there search engines searching in multiple languages or do they just

Keywords everywhere

2007-10-24T05:29:08Z

How important are keywords?
If you have started your webstore and you have not thought about
keywords then your store may not be a success. Having a catchy name
for your store is OK but unless it is well promoted or your brand name
is well know it won't do much good.
When you are selling online you need to consider how the buyers will

Re: Advantages of E-commerce

2007-10-18T10:59:02Z

Hi Steve.
There are many benefits but it does depend a little on your business
i.e. what you sell or do.
eCommerce has a much lower cost of sale than a traditional business
model and you can get to a greater market. A physical store is limited
by location a web site is not.
What is it you sell or want online

Advantages of E-commerce

2007-10-18T10:36:47Z

Hello,
Could you please list some of the advantages and disadvantages of e-
commerce.
Many thanks
Steve

Home Page Setup

2007-10-04T04:11:19Z

Setting Up Your Home Page
Your home page is the first page that the search engines will crawl
and rank. To ensure you have the best chance of being found (and then
well ranked) by the search engines, you need to make sure that it is
set up correctly.
ePages V5 has a number of features that help you get your home page

Re: How to promote my eBay store?

2007-10-04T02:48:29Z

What some of our customers have done is to create a second online
store that is not an eBay store and then have the two linked together.
The issues of getting traffic (visitors) to your eBay store are no
different than with an online store generally. With an eBay store
there is less capability to promote the store and manage the look and

How to promote my eBay store?

2007-10-03T05:55:14Z

I own an eBay store stocked with industrial supplies. Sales ebbs and
flows. Do you guys have good ideas to promote the store and generate a
steady revenue? Thanks!

Getting found by Google and search engines

2007-09-23T06:29:08Z

One of the most common questions that we get asked is about being
found by Google and Search Engine Optimisation or SEO. The good thing
about the various search engines is that they operate by a set of
rules. It is generally agreed that Google is the most important search
engine and if you rank well on Google in the first 30 or so results it

Product Variations

2007-09-14T04:08:46Z

We have had some questions of late about product variations. By
product variations we mean the ability to create a base product such
as a "T-Shirt" then you can create sub-products that offer variations
such as size, colour, neck line style as examples.
If you are using ePages V5.03 then you first have to create a Product

Import/Export issues and Excel

2007-09-06T23:18:33Z

Just recently we have had a number of customers who have found a
problem doing the CSV import/export. It seems that there is a known
bug in some versions of Microsoft Excel that causes Excel to leave a
"," in the wrong place.
Please find a link to the Knowledge base article on Microsoft website
that explains the problem.

Re: How many visitors to your website is enough?

2007-09-06T23:04:10Z

Hi Rhondda and thanks for contributing to the forum. We will get the
message out to all the customers using eCorner Stores but it will take
a little while.
Google ranking is important in many ways but there are many online
stores that get great business and don't worry too much about Google.
Also don't forget about Yahoo, ninemsn and sensis all are important.

Re: How many visitors to your website is enough?

2007-09-06T22:27:53Z

Hi
I just wanted to say hello, and what a good idea this forum is. I hope
all the other ecorner merchants pop in to say hello too.
I am only beginning to learn about all this, and still have much to
learn.
I am using Stat Counter on the homepage of my ecorner site, but it
isn't really very useful as it only counts visitors who navigate to

Multi Currency

2007-08-25T01:47:59Z

There is always a bit of confusion around multi-currency that causes
questions. In the majority of online stores in Australia the only
usable currency is Australian Dollars. Some might allow you to display
alternative currencies but when paying the credit card will show
Australian Dollars. Some overseas online stores will also have

Re: eCommerce can be fun and profitable

2007-08-23T01:57:41Z

Also for small shops it is not always possible to hold stock for every
item they can get from their supplier, but if you have an online shop
you can offer many more items directly and order them from your
supplier as you need them.
In many cases a customer walks into a shop and can't see what they
want and walks out without even asking about the item. With an online

Christmas Online Sales and eCommerce

2007-08-20T01:04:14Z

Every year online sales at Christmas time takes a major peak. Online
sales this Christmas are expected to be up around 25% over 2006.
Buying online for Christmas starts as early as September but the real
peak happens in the first week of December. Last year sales in that
week increased 100% over 2005.

How many visitors to your website is enough?

2007-08-17T06:36:22Z

It is an interesting question and one without a perfect answer. Before
you start spending lots of money promoting your online store you need
to know if there are any limitations. These may be issues like
bandwidth or data caps on data storage. In most good eCommerce hosting
environments limitations are not a major issue. You need to ask your

eCommerce can be fun and profitable

2007-08-17T06:07:33Z

According to the ABS there are now around 1.9 million SMEs in
Australia and only 9% have an ecommerce capability and less than 20%
have a web presence. With retail online sales growing at more than 20%
per quarter it is now a great time to get moving on ecommerce safely.