Tools or Features used in a Website

·         User Forum: User forum can help members, share ideas and receive support directly from your company.

·         Social Network Tools: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and MySpace – effectively using these tools can reach thousands of new prospects and help existing clients stay in touch with your company.

·         Blog(s): A well written blog is a great way to build site traffic and share your industry knowledge and insight.

·         Product Catalog: The catalog should be searchable, both by key terms and by product category.  A dynamic catalog offers the best user experience.

·         Newsletter Signup: Newsletter is a great way to build client loyalty, but takes significant time to create great content and execute campaigns. Consider AWeber or Constant Contact for your newsletter. Both offer tools to generate signup boxes for your website and great tracking tools.

·         Media Gallery: It display your products in use, show product benefits, or actual users comments on how they used/liked specific products.

·         Online Demos and “How-Tos”: Depending on your type of product, this can either be useful for after-the-sale service reducing calls to your support line, or can help make more sales by showing how the product is used.

·         Advertisements: either through affiliate programs or directly placed ads, appropriate advertisements can add value to your site, and introduce your clients to complementary service providers.

·         Member Registration: give your clients a sense of belonging. Either for purchases or simply to participate in the forums, registering members is a great way to build a community.

·         About Us:  Tell your visitors about you – not just your name, but a photo of the principal’s (or the front end people) and a brief profile.

·         Search Box: It will reduce the time needed to find what they’re looking for. Google offers a free site search option, or your programmer can create one for you.

·         Free Content: in the form of downloadable pdf files, these reports are a valuable means to educate your prospects, aiding them in making a buying decision.

For more details about website development and maintenance and E-Commerce Consulting, please feel free to contact Prevaj Consultants at prevaj@prevajconsultants.com or call +91-8144760745.

Sell More through your E-Store during Holidays

Here are several tools for making your E-Commerce website more attractive and friendly especially for a holiday promotion: 

1. Sell what you have in stock, at least in the main pages of your store, every product you display needs to be in-stock and ready for delivery.
2. Deliver the product on time. Your seasonal delivery schedule, delivery rates and premium delivery services should be clearly posted on the website
3. Make sure that every employee serving your online customers fulfills the published delivery commitments.
4. In the case of any unexpected problems you must inform the customer immediately.
5. When giving something for free to your customers make sure that you attach in some way the information on your products.
6. During a holiday make sure to give your customers clear directions to contact you.
7. Your regular telephone, fax numbers should also be posted and display your customer service e-mail address and business hours with a schedule.
8. Never underestimate your customer feedback. Respond to the feedback you have received from your online customers by phone, by e-mail or by other methods.
9. If they are telling that you are good, you must strive to be better. If anything is not quite right get it fixed immediately!
10. Be sure to always report the changes that you have made because misinformation is the number one reason for online shopping cart abandonment. 

 For more details about E-Commerce website development and consulting please feel free to contact Prevaj Consultants at prevaj@prevajconsultants.com or call +91-8144760745

Some useful tools to automate Online Business

1.Article Marketing: 

SubmitYourArticle.com automates the article submission process by allowing the user to submit up to eight articles each month and then distribute the articles to hundreds of web sites, article directories and ezine publishers.

2. Audio Recording/Podcasting: 

AudioAcrobat.com makes audio streaming fast and simple, whether the user  wants to add an audio greeting, audio testimonials, podcast or videos to their website or send out an audio postcard or record a teleclass. 

3. Backup: 

Carbonite.com offers an unlimited amount of data storage.

4. Blogging: 

Typepad.com is both simple to use and powerful. User can set up as many blogs as required and can customize the  blog in an infinite number of ways.

5. Bookmark Manager: 

SPURL.net makes managing a moderate to massive amount of bookmarks very easy and adding a favorite website is as easy as clicking a button.
 
6. Color Matching:

 Pixie is a tool that help to match a color exactly for a document to replicate on a website.

7. Content Management: 

Edit.com is a website maintenance service that makes a website editable so user can change the content themselves. They handle everything to get the site set up . There is no software to install because it just uses the web browser.

8. Email List Management/Autoresponders:

aWeber.com is a great service for creating, mailing and reporting back on the success of newsletter as well as to subscribe readers to a sequential autoresponder.

9. Fax: 

MaxEmail.com lets us send and receive faxes through the Internet/email. The faxes arrive in PDF format, so user can easily share the faxes with others as needed. They also offer voice mail on fax line, and the voicemail message arrives as an audio file in email inbox. 

10. Graphics Program: 

SnagIt.com lets users show someone exactly what they see on the screen. User can select and capture the screen image. and send it to SnagIt's editor to add professional effects, edit the image (resize, adjust color), and or drop it into favorite application. 

11. Hosting:

 Aaces.com offers the ability to buy a hosting plan in which user can host and manage a large number of websites through one account rather than buying multiple hosting plans for each website for their business.

12. Idea Management:

With EverNote.com user can easily store and quickly access typed and handwritten memos, webpage excerpts, emails, phone messages, addresses, passwords, brainstorms, sketches, documents and more!

13. Merchant Account: 

PracticePaySolutions.com offers an all-in-one ecommerce solution that helps you take payment online.

14. Publicity Tracker:

Google Alerts let user type in an unlimited number of search terms, like name, company, industry, the name of competitors, etc. Google will then deliver an email alert for any mention of your search term online.

15. Password Management: 

Roboform.com is the top-rated password manager and web form filler that completely automates password entering and form filling.

16. Shopping Cart: 

KickstartCart.com is easy to use and setup, and offers the ability to create affiliate programs, follow up with prospective and current customers with autoresponders, create coupons for limited-time offers, as well as enable buyers to immediately download electronic purchases (ebooks, audio files).

17. Spyware: 

CounterSpy.com will protect computer from spyware, adware, Trojans and other malware threats. 

18. Teleconference Line: 

LiveOfficeFreeConferencing.com lets us meet with colleagues, associates or even family members through a teleconference bridge line that can bring up to 250 people together at one place over a teleconference phone line. We can use the line to conduct classes and training and record calls, as well as manage participants from an online interface. 

19. Time Tracker: 

TraxTime.com helps keep track of projects. Simply create projects and clock into and out of them.

20. To Do List Management: 

Accomplice.com works online and offline, integrates with Outlook, and syncs with PDA. This software can create in-depth, hierarchical to-do lists (tasks and sub-tasks of a bigger project) very easily, and add additional tasks on the fly.

For more details about Website Applications, website development and maintenance please feel free to contact Prevaj Consultants at prevaj@prevajconsultants.com or call +91-8144760745