eCommerce

How to Write your First Business Blog Post

by Douw G Steyn
October 20, 2020May 15, 2023

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So, you’ve decided that your business needs a website. After all, you’d spend a lot of time choosing your domain name, and sign up with a reputable ISP host. Even more, you’d followed the advice of your ISP host and chose WordPress.org as a CRM platform. But now you need to write your fist business blog post…

You’re probably scared as hell to do the writing of your first business blog. However, take a deep breath of air and just start where you think you should – at the beginning.

Here are the steps you should follow to write your first business blog post:

Add your Business Online and so Defeat the Virus

by Douw G Steyn
July 29, 2020May 15, 2023

What should you do to add your business online? For one thing, you should add the online channel urgently to your business model. Why?

Because, we’re now for months in the devastating grip of the CORVID-19 lock down, and with little relief in sight. As a result, your customers are staying at their homes for most of the time. No ways that they’ll visit your shop to feel good, or to go for an outing. Sadly, no shopping experience for them then…

In fact, there are many obstacles that your customers must endure before they can walk into your shop. Things like:

Wearing a mask – uncomfortable but essential;
Getting decontaminated continuously with suspect chemicals;
Standing for hours in a que to get their essential goodies – because the shops are limited to the number of customers that may be in the store at any time;
Wondering if they’d picked up the virus this time – because not everyone was wearing a mask…

Pricing Strategies for Small Businesses – Dynamic Pricing

by Douw G Steyn
May 12, 2020May 15, 2023
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Dynamic pricing has become popular with businesses in the digitized world of today. It’s especially true for business that use the internet to advertise and sell their products or services to internet users. For that reason, dynamic pricing is particularly applicable with eCommerce…

Online Retail Success Factors

by Douw G Steyn
October 16, 2018February 3, 2020

Online retail success factors are those issues that every online retailer needs to pay attention to in order to survive and grow their businesses in the online channel. Although it is relatively easy to open an online shop and start trading, the fundamentals of strategic business management remains the same, albeit in a different channel.

After all, you’ll still need to ask the following questions and get the answers about the future of your business:

Where are we now?
Where do we want to be?
How are we going to get there?