Periodically studies come out about shopping cart abandonment.  Shopping cart abandonment is when people start to buy from an online store and then leave the site before they complete the checkout process. The percentage of customers that abandon their carts during the buy process was calculated to be 63.83% by the Baymard Institute.  It’s a [...]

Last week I did an emergency website fix for a new customer.  I hadn’t built the site and wasn’t familiar with its functionality.  As I worked on their payment page, I realized what I was looking at.  The page collected credit card information and then emailed the credit card details to the website owner.  The [...]

I am one of the luckiest people I know.  I get to live my dream, working from home while I help people make their dreams come true, because of the Internet.  Proposed laws threaten our ability to make a living on the Internet, express ourselves on the Internet, do research on the Internet and touch [...]

Isn’t it amazing  how much the Internet and computers are changing our lives?   Last week I read a news story that  that proved, once again, that we live in exciting times. Amanda Hocking turned to self-publishing when the traditional route of finding an agent and a publisher just didn’t work.  She began selling digital [...]

Recently Darren at ProBlogger posted a video about making money online.  What’s the biggest secret about making money online?  The really big secret is that there is no secret.  Love what you do.  Try and provide value to your readers.  Take a long term approach.   As someone with multiple websites that bring in advertising [...]

I’ve written about CafePress shops before.  They’re fairly easy to set up and it’s one way that website owners can make money online.  The CafePress interface allows you to make a wide variety of products.  There are t-shirts, greeting cards, water bottles, Thermos containers and even thongs.  Too much information?  Sorry.  The point is that [...]

I hope you all have a lovely Thanksgiving!  In between the turkey and the football games I also hope you have time to enjoy these five articles: 12 Top Online Entrepreneurs Share How Hard They Work -  We’ve all seen get rich schemes for making money online.  “Work just one hour a day. You too [...]

One look at Sir Lunch-a-Lot’s Chicken and Shrimp Gumbo recipe, his version of Paella, or his German Coffee Cake recipe and you know you’re in good culinary hands.  There’s no doubt about it.  Sir Lunch-a-Lot, a.k.a. Aaron Cantor, can cook up a storm.  However, he did need some help selling his electronic cookbooks online. We [...]

If you’re interested in quilting or if you’d like to see a  Zen Cart shopping cart in action, check out Back Porch Quilts Online Store. The online store fits nicely into the navigation of the existing Back Porch Quilts website.  Note how the look and feel of the main website is echoed in the online [...]

Do you ever dream about the perfect job?  Maybe  it involves working from home.  Maybe you’d like to spend more time focusing on your hobbies and passions.  It could be that your perfect job involves connecting with people who share your interests. If any of those apply to you, I think blogging would be a [...]