Archive for the ‘Ebiz1’ Category

Ebiz#1 update

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

Well this is looking like a record month for Ebiz1.  With a day to go unspent profits are pushing close to $2,000.  I say unspent because in reality the profits will be alot lower because I am putting alot of the money back into the business. I have a developer building me ...

Today was a good day…

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

Some days things just turn out well...  Today (actually it will be yesterday by the time you read this) just reminded me of the 1993 Ice Cube song "It was a good day (Youtube link)". Good news from my PM.  My SLC townhome#2 is rented at $1150/mo!  That's a $50 increase in rent.  No ...

Ebiz#1 conversions update

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

It has been a month since I implemented the one page checkout to my ebiz#1.  The metric I was measuring was Shopping Cart adds vs. Sales.  When I posted my results on June 5th I had a shopping cart abandonment rate of 85% based on data from March 2008 to May ...

One page checkout!!!

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

I finally got my one page checkout implemented on my ebiz1 site.  Before today it took a customer 6 clicks from the shopping cart screen to complete an order.  From my google funnel post you can see that I lost alot of customers along the way. Here it is with my new ...

Ebiz updates

Friday, May 16th, 2008

It's been a few days for Ebiz#3 and I'm finding out that I'm not getting enough traffic simply through Google Adwords.  I will have to add a blog to this store to get some SEO love. Volusion says that they can set up subdomains but I'm having trouble doing so now.  ...

I think I’m straying from the 4 hour work week goals

Monday, May 12th, 2008

8 hour work week  I took a step back to see if I was traveling in the right direction.  6 months ago when I started my first ebiz it was a very simple business plan. Get order Send order via email to dropshipper Tracking shipment Done This was a fairly easy process which took about 1-2 ...

A Snag in the Ebiz Operations

Friday, April 18th, 2008

As you read this I'm hiking in Havasupai Canyon near the Grand Canyon.  This is the first time that I will not have internet access for an extended period of time.  Normally if I'm out of town or even camping I will get access to cell phone coverage during some ...