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Author Archives: Steve @Erraticblog
Valentines Day 2011 ~ the day 1800Flowers doesn’t deliver and loses me and thousands of others as a customer
Valentines day. A day most women expect flowers from their husbands and boy friends. Some men procrastinate and wait until the last minute. Others like me don’t. I ordered flowers and candy from @1800flowers more than a week before Valentines day. I know that V-day is an extremely busy day for flower delivery. You would…
Google Remarketing on the Google Display Network
A few weeks back I had visited a site to buy something but then abandoned my cart. I started looking around at other sites that were in one way or another showing or discussing the same type of products. I noticed a display ad from the first site I visited (the one I abandoned the…
Scotch Pop-Up Tape Dispenser – why haven’t I bought this before now?
Ran out of tape this morning so I headed to Office Depot. When looking at all the different types of tape that are available, the Scotch Pop-Up tape dispenser caught my attention. I bought one and man do I feel like an idiot for not having bought this before now. Up until today I still…
The unhappy and unappeasable customer – how do you like to handle them?
If you’ve owned a business, you’ve had them. The customer that is unhappy and no matter what you do you can’t appease them. It doesn’t matter what method you take and what you offer them… they will not be satisfied. How’s the best way to handle this type of customer? My first business was a…
What motivates you?
Last night I couldn’t sleep. Too many things turning in my head… finishing a bathroom remodel project that I started, starting a new website idea that I have brewing in my mind, switching hosts for another site, holiday marketing ideas for my eCommerce site. Overload like this causes sleepless nights. I occasionally get really motivated…
Twitter tip for businesses… talk about non-business too!
I have several Twitter accounts. @erraticblog for this blog, a 2nd account for another blog I own and a 3rd for my eCommerce site. Anyone who follows this blog knows that I blog semi-anonymously here. It allows me to be more open (probably so I can occasionally rant about things ), more helpful, and have…
Links for 10/22/2010
Deliberately uninformed, relentlessly so [a rant] – Seth Godin 5 Timesaving Social Networking Tools – Practical eCommerce 80 Colorful Package Designs – Freelance Review… you can get some great packaging ideas for your brand from this collection of great designs. How to fix a WordPress blog that’s not sending emails Give Customers what they want:…
Shopping comparison sites (Nextag, Shopzilla, Pricegrabber, etc) holiday rate increase… do you think it’s justified?
If you advertise your products on shopping comparison sites like Nextag, PriceGrabber and Shopzilla, you know what time of year it is. Holiday rate increase time. By now you should have gotten the typical/yearly email such as these: From Nextag: The holiday season is around the corner and we would like to inform you that…
Starting a new business? Don’t wait for everything to be perfect… Go for it now!
I’ve started several businesses in my life… a brick and mortar straight out of college, several affiliate websites, several blogs, a product line and an eCommerce website. If there is one thing I could pass on to anyone that’s starting their first business it would be… don’t wait for everything to be perfect before you…
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Hi, I'm Steve... an eCommerce merchant that writes about eCommerce, advertising, marketing, blogging, design, social media, seo, tech and other randomness.Read more »
