Archive for December, 2008

Writing an Ebook

Monday, December 8th, 2008

I've been toying with writing an ebook about starting and running a successful ecommerce niche store lately.  I've been doing this for only one year and I've never thought that I could or would be considered an expert in this field.  In fact, I merely think that I'm lucky that ...

Recession, what recession?

Friday, December 5th, 2008

Ok, I'm only kidding... I know that we are in a recession.  But Christmas seems to make people spend money even if they don't have it.  What parent can deny their kids of a Christmas present?  I am taking many phone orders now.  One thing I totally forgot about was ...

Final furniture update, finally

Thursday, December 4th, 2008

Remember my post on about the sale I couldn't resist?  If not, on August 1st, I bought a whole new living room set and got a second set for $1.  I paid $3,101 for two sets of living room furniture.  My goal was to pay $1,400 for a whole living ...

No more 00 prices

Thursday, December 4th, 2008

When I first launched Ebiz5, I decided to do the 00 pricing.  This meant all my prices ended in 00 instead of 99 or 95.  I had a dry spell on ebiz5 for a few days and could not figure why it wasn't converting. Oddly enough I really think it was ...

Ebiz5 PPC campaign

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

In October, I spent about $750 on PPC (pay per click) for ebiz5.  This got me over 50 orders in a 15 day period.  The problem was that with 50 orders and over $6,000 in gross sales, my profit was minimal due to the PPC spending. In November, sales dramatically dropped and ...

Articles Update #2

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

On my last post about articles I wrote about placing another article purchase at a place that spins an article and submits it to over 500 article sites.  Well the order was placed in mid November and completed two days ago. They claim to have submitted my articles to over 600 sites.  ...