It may be that I’ve seen too many disaster films in my time, but I always have the worry when going abroad that something will happen and I’ll lose all my personal documents. This could be anything – a seagull swooping down and flying off with my wallet when I’m lying on the beach with a Cuba Libre, [...]
Category Archives: Hints & Tips
Your eShop account includes a variety of marketing tools to help you attract potential customers and boost sales, so here’s a guide to what’s on offer. The provision of marketing tools does vary slightly across the eShop and eBooking range, so please check the website to find out which tools are available with which packages. [...]
One of the most effective tools in a marketer’s arsenal is the humble customer newsletter. It’s been around for a while, and most of us are probably on the receiving end of more than we necessarily want each day, but if you run a business it’s still one of the best ways to increase sales [...]
2010
Dec
16
If you’ve been following our Introduction to eShop blog series you’ll already have laid the cornerstones for a successful online business, so you’re just a few steps away from activating your shop and opening the door to paying customers. Creating delivery methods You will need to define at least one delivery method and its costs [...]
If you’ve been following our Introduction to eShops series, you should be feeling more familiar with your shop’s backoffice and have designed your shop and organised your product catalogue. So, now you need to make sure your customers have a way to pay you – here’s how to go about it. Availability of payment methods [...]
2010
Nov
30
As many customers will know, we have a limit on the maximum size of email attachments to 10MB per email – realistically you are probably looking at maximum file size of around 8MB before any encoding and the like. We have this limit in place because we need to make sure for the sake of [...]
At this time of year, and particular with the economic climate the way it is, many of us are often looking for ways to save money or even make a little extra. If you already have a website, one obvious potential revenue source is to set yourself up as an affiliate and provide ad space [...]
2010
Nov
15
If someone is buying a car, one of the first things they do after money has changed hands is to update the V5 document with the DVLA to make the change of ownership official. This is pretty common sense really – the seller does not want to find themselves being contacted about a car they no [...]
In part one of our Getting to know eShop series, we walked you through the eShop backoffice administration area to give you an idea of just how easy eShop makes it to set up and manage your online shop business. An easy-to-use shop system is only half the battle for successful online business, though, so [...]
Our Virtual Private Server (VPS) offerings are very powerful solutions. Customers have full root/administrator access and so the sky is the limit when it comes to customising the machine. Something we often need to stress, though, is that a full root access machine can serve one of many different functions depending on what the administrator [...]
