How To Evaluate A Dropship Store For Purchase – Would You Buy This Website...
Today’s article is the start of a new column that I’m going to feature on MyWifeQuitHerJob.com. In an effort to better serve the interests of my readers, I’m officially creating a new question and...
View ArticleHow To Stop Someone From Plagiarizing Your Website And Stealing Your Content
A few months ago on a Sunday morning, I was looking through my emails when I discovered a bunch of new Google Alerts in my inbox. For all of you who are unfamiliar with Google Alerts, Google Alerts are...
View ArticleImproving Mobile Checkout – Why You Should Turn Off IPhone AutoCorrect
One of the reasons new entrepreneurs are hesitant to start an online store is because they fear the customer support. Steve, am I going to have to install a support line for my shop? I’d rather not...
View ArticleHow To Prevent A Website Crash When You Make The NBC Today Show
12 seconds….That’s all it took… 12 minuscule seconds of being on television and the traffic and order volume for our online store completely blew up! Plus, our website didn’t crash:) This past week,...
View ArticleHow I Made Over $300K These Past 2 Years With An Email Autoresponder
While our online store has been the main cash cow in our family, over the years MyWifeQuitHerJob.com has also become a significant portion of our household revenue. 2 years ago, I reached my first...
View ArticleThis One Change To My Email Autoresponder Tripled The Sales Of My Info Product
I’ve been running my Create A Profitable Online Store Course for several years now and up until the middle of last year, it’s been selling reasonably well. For example during 2012 and 2013, I averaged...
View ArticleMy Results Selling On Amazon FBA After 4 Months And The Pros And Cons Of The...
On MyWifeQuitHerJob.com, I often write about the need for motivation and determination when it comes to starting a business. After all if you don’t have the drive, then you will never take any action....
View ArticleHow Adding A Payment Plan Can Affect Your Sales – The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
Are you considering adding a payment plan for your digital product or service? Then you must consider these pros and cons before you pull the trigger. When I first launched my Create A Profitable...
View Article5 Common Small Business Mistakes We Made Early On With Our Online Store
It’s really tough to go against your own nature and I full on admit it. When it comes to running a small business, I’m pretty frugal and picky about the way things are run and where money is spent. For...
View ArticleMy Low Cost Website Redesign That Increased Conversion Rates 42% In 7 Weeks
Doing a complete website redesign of my online store has been on my “to do” list for a very long time, but I could not get myself to pull the trigger because it was never a priority. Here’s the thing....
View ArticlePayPal One Touch – How This One Feature Increased Mobile Conversion Rates By 31%
A while back, I posted the results of my most recent website redesign. And while I managed to increase the desktop conversion rate by over 42%, the gains for mobile and tablet were much more modest. At...
View ArticleHow To Build A Search Engine For Your Online Store
A lot of online business owners focus so much on getting traffic from the search engines and optimizing for Google that they completely neglect the search bar for their own website!. And more often...
View ArticleA Sneak Peek Inside Our New Warehouse And The Story How We Got Here
As part of running my blog and my podcast, I often get questions from readers who want to know more about the early years of our business and how it has evolved over time. How did we get started? How...
View ArticleThe Abandoned Cart Email Sequence That Recovers 19% Of My Sales (Without A...
People are constantly interrupted when they shop online and the majority of consumers never finish checkout on their first try. In fact, statistics show that over 76% of shoppers abandon their cart and...
View ArticleWeb Design And Development – 7 Tweaks That Drastically Increased Our Online...
Sometimes a seemingly insignificant change to your web design and development and/or online strategy can pay huge dividends. And in many cases, the answer to improving sales requires very little effort...
View ArticleHow A Spin To Win Popup Increased Email Signups 131% For My Shop
When it comes to email marketing, your revenue potential is directly proportional to the number of people on your list. Size matters! And for my online store, the more emails I collect, the more money...
View ArticleThe Results Of My Influencer Marketing Experiment With Real Data From My Shop
A while back I interviewed my friend Emmanuel Eleyae, who managed to make over $65,000 in 4 months without Amazon by leveraging You Tube influencers. And over the past few years, he’s grown his satin...
View ArticleCustomer Service Skills: How Would You Handle These Awkward Situations?
If you’ve been selling physical products online for any length of time, chances are you’ve hit a few snafus along the way that where good customer service skills have come in handy. Even if you run a...
View ArticleCrazy Customer Service Stories – Lessons Learned Answering Calls For Our...
I’ve been hung up on. I’ve been cursed out. I’ve been been treated like a minimum wage worker. But I’ve always sucked it up because that’s what it takes to run a successful wedding linens business....
View ArticleHiring An Accountant To Do Your Taxes Vs Using Turbo Tax Or Tax Cut
Do you really need an accountant to file your taxes? And will an accountant actually save you money versus using an off the shelf tax program like Turbo Tax? In this post, I discuss my own personal...
View ArticleHow To Increase Your Amazon Sales Rank By 209% With A Simple Photo Tweak
As you probably know, the photo you choose for your Amazon listing can mean the difference between losing a customer vs making a sale. And more importantly, the quality of your photo determines whether...
View ArticleHow Heat Maps And Scroll Maps Boosted Conversions For Our Online Store By 9.3%
When it comes to running any online business, tracking visitor behavior and testing your conversion funnels are essential for improving your sales. Most webmasters rely on the free tool, Google...
View ArticleA Windows Keyboard Macro Program That Will Save You Time And Money
Running any business always requires some amount of tedious, repetitive work. For example with my online wedding linens store, we need people to… Pick and pack orders Answer phone calls Run the...
View ArticleBing Search Ads – How I Made An Extra $3253 Last Month With A Few Clicks Of...
Compared to the traffic that my online store gets from Google, Bing traffic is pretty much an afterthought. For example, last month my store got 18 times more organic traffic from Google than Bing and...
View ArticleHow To Build An Email List – 2 Simple Tweaks That Doubled My Signups
Out of all the traffic sources that bring in revenue to MyWifeQuitHerJob.com, most of the money that I make is derived directly from my email list. Without my email list, I would not be selling very...
View ArticleHow To Grow Your Email List By 56% Overnight With Group Giveaways
A while back, my partner Toni and I launched a free group giveaway service called Go Brand Win. And this service was designed to help ecommerce and Amazon entrepreneurs quickly grow their email lists...
View ArticleHow Fake Coupon And Deal Sites Are Stealing Your Sales And What To Do About It
Picture this scenario. A customer in your online store is about to checkout. But they see a discount code field in your cart, do a search for “YourStore.com coupons” and find a coupon from a deal site...
View ArticleCanton Fair – My Guide To China’s Largest Wholesale Supplier Trade Show
Every other year, my wife and I make a trip to Guangzhou, China to attend the Canton Fair. If you’ve never heard of the Canton Fair, it is the largest whole supplier tradeshow in the world where...
View ArticleMy Website Audit Checklist – Templates & Tools To Boost SEO
Did you know that poor quality posts on your website are lowering your overall SEO traffic? Recently, I conducted a full content website audit on MyWifeQuitHerJob.com and managed to increase my Google...
View ArticleHow To Start A TShirt Business For Under 3 Dollars (And Make Sales Immediately)
In this post, you will learn how to start a tshirt business from complete scratch for less than $3 with a viable marketing strategy that requires no upfront costs. Because I teach a course on how to...
View ArticlePostcard Marketing – Does Direct Mail Work And What’s The ROI?
Does postcard marketing work? Can direct mail generate sales at a positive ROI? I recently conducted a case study with my own ecommerce store that answers both of these questions. First off, I want to...
View ArticleHow To Create A Customer Loyalty Program Using ManyChat And Facebook Messenger
When it comes to getting repeat sales for your ecommerce store, customer loyalty programs are one of the most effective ways to boost customer retention. In fact, studies have shown that 69% of...
View ArticleWhat Is Amazon DSP And How Does It Work? (Case Study)
Right now, there are many ways to advertise your products directly on the Amazon platform. But how do you reach customers who aren’t shopping on Amazon? How can you advertise to customers who aren’t...
View ArticleAmazon Advertising: Is Hiring An Agency Worth It? (Case Study)
Should you hire an Amazon advertising agency or run your Amazon PPC ads by yourself? This post is a case study that I conducted with my own Amazon account to help you answer that exact question. A...
View ArticleGorgias Review – How To Cut Customer Service Costs By 30%
This post will provide you with a comprehensive Gorgias review and detailed examples of how Gorgias has reduced my customer service costs by over 30% for my ecommerce store. When it comes to running a...
View ArticleThe Best Way To Use Facebook Messenger Bots To Sell Online With ManyChat
For the past several years, I’ve implemented Facebook Messenger bots on both my blog and my ecommerce store and my results have been nothing short of incredible. And to this day, my Facebook Messenger...
View ArticleSMS Marketing – The Ultimate Guide For Online Store Owners
What is MMS and SMS marketing and how does it work? In this post, you’ll learn how to use text message marketing to grow your ecommerce store along with real examples and data from my online shop. When...
View ArticleBusinesses Should Avoid Stripe Payments. Here’s Why
In this post, you’ll learn why you should avoid Stripe payments to process credit cards for your online business. Here’s my story. First off, I want to come out and say that I love Stripe as a product....
View ArticleHow To Get a 90+ Core Web Vitals Score For An Ecommerce Store (Case Study)
In this post, you’ll learn how to get a 90+ score on your Google Core Web Vitals (desktop and mobile) for an ecommerce store even if you use a lot of plugins. When Google first released their core web...
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