Online Niches
Improving Shopping Cart Abandonment Rate
Shopping cart abandonment is a significant problem. In some market verticals between 65 and 75% of shoppers abandon their online shopping carts before completing the checkout process. Small business owners report rates as high as 82%. Here are 20 tips to help you reduce the number of shoppers on your site that abandon their online shopping carts.
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Check how many steps are in your checkout process. This is usually a prime "knee jerk" target for results, but it has been found that whether you have one step or seven steps in the checkout process is not all that critical (which goes against conventional advice by having as few steps as possible). We had one client with whom with whom we were able to bring the checkout process from six steps down to one, but there was no correlation in reduction of the abandonment rate to the number of steps. Note: In testing that I have done I also found this to be true. Once people find what they want, they are generally going to buy, regardless of the steps involved.
Domain 2.0
PickyDomains.Com is a perfect example of how to turn one’s talent into a profitable business. With ever expanding Internet and tens of millions existing websites, finding an available domain name that’s not already taken by cybersquatters can be a real nightmare.
But one man’s problem is another man’s solution. Rather than to shell out hundreds or thousands of dollars for a domain name on the aftermarket, an increasing number of web entrepreneurs turn to professional domain namers.
While most naming agencies charge a non-refundable fee that can be as high as $1500 for a corporate domain, one service that unites 17 professional domain namers from countries like United States, Russia, Australia and New Zealand, decided to offer a risk-free service that costs only 50 dollars per domain.
Celebrity Castoffs - How To Make Money Selling Used Celebrity Clothing
http://www.celebritycastoffs.co.uk/
Tell us what your business does
Celebritycastoffs.co.uk is the UK’s first website dedicated to auctioning clothes and memorabilia owned by celebrities.
Where did the idea for your business come from?
I thought of the idea 5 years ago while I was reading through some celebrity magazines and wondered what the celebrities do with items after they have been worn.
How did you know there was a market for it?
We are living in a celebrity fuelled world. The general public thrive on celebrity status. We are giving the opportunity for the general public to become part of this celebrity world and up to 70% of the final bid is donated to a charity of the celebrities choice.
MomsWINS - Awesome Home Business For Women
When MomsWIN started five years ago I was just 21 years old. My family grew from two to five youthful bundles of energy called children and my income exploded exponentially. The crown jewels in my business are Addison, Ashton, Avery, Aiden and Amara. Starting at 21 without experience would seem to be a recipe for failure. Hopefully, this helps you to understand why we say not having traditional markers to set our course was a blessing. It should also demonstrate that you to can set a successful course by breaking the traditional rules.
Abercrombie Perfume Plus Free $500 Abercrombie Gift Card
Finally I bought Abercrombie perfume with free $500 Abercromby Gift Card Mike told me about last week. I don't know how long they will give away these for, but if I were you, I'd grab one right away.
I think they only requirements are that you are over 18 and provide a valid address in US (Canadians are excluded for some reason). That's if you don't mind shopping at A&F. Look what I found out about them:
Hitchster.Com - Taxi Ride 2.0
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Everyone loves New York, except for when they have to take a cab to or from the airport and it ends up costing almost as much as airfare. Which is why smart New Yorkers are starting to plan their airport commutes via Hitchster.com. Founded by New York attorney Terry Crawford and wife Gloria, Hitchsters.com is a combination of a social networking and a ride matching site. Hitchsters' software connects travelers scheduled on the same flight and living in the same area of the city so they can save money by sharing a taxi. Customers can also specify their preference for a male or female co-rider and make a new social connection.
Woman Entrepreneur - Banu Ozden (Smart Medical Consumer)
http://www.smartmedicalconsumer.com/
When Banu Ozden, PhD, couldn't get a straight answer out of her health-insurance company regarding the cost of treatment options after being diagnosed with breast cancer, she got mad.
And as she went through the treatment process, she grew increasingly overwhelmed by the fact that the myriad of bills that were sent her way were filled with unintelligible codes and statements that didn't accurately reflect what she owed. She couldn't figure out what to pay--let alone if she was overpaying. When she finally sat down to sort through the mess, she discovered that she had overpaid by about $4,000.
So Ozden decided to get even by building a service that would help others by automating medical billing, tracking medical expenses, and detecting errors, so they could concentrate on getting well. She had already left her job at Bell Labs, where she had worked as director of research of computing systems, and had been frustrated that many of the inventions that she and her colleagues had worked on simply didn't make it to market.
Selling Celebrity Addresses Turns Out To Be A Killer Business Idea.
Will George Clooney adore your hot product? Does Madonna need your new service?
ContactAnyCelebrity.com gives you access to the contact info of more than 54,000 celebs from the worlds of screen, music, athletics, politics and more--as well as info for their agents, production companies, charities, managers and publicists, giving you the best avenues to get in touch with your target star.
Best of all, you can try it out on the cheap: A week's trial subscription is just a buck, and then it's $19.97 per month, and you can cancel at any time. Because, you know, fame is fickle.
10 Awesome Startups You’ve Never Heard About
http://www.newyourkey.com/
New Yorkers who have a hard time keeping track of personal items now have one less thing to worry about. For a modest annual fee, NewYourKey keeps copies of keys in a secure storage facility and can deliver them right away if customers find themselves locked out. Keys lost in a nightclub at four in the morning? No problem! NewYourKey will deliver spare keys within an hour any time of day or night, wherever a customer happens to be.
http://www.pickydomains.com/
Can't think of that totally awesome domain name for a new website? PickyDomains is a risk-free domain naming service that got a lot of publicity and ‘blogtalk’ in Europe lately despite being only two months old. This is how it works. A customer deposits $50 dollars and describes what kind of domain he or she wants. Domain pickers then send in their suggestions of available domain names. If the customer likes one of the domain names and registers it, the service gets $50. Otherwise the money is refunded at the end of the month.
Weird Business Startups - Smashing-Plates.Com
Fascinated with car number plates himself, James Newell decided there had to be an alternative to commission-based dealers. The solution came through his listings website, smashing-plates.com. He reveals how he got started.
Tell us what your business does
Smashing-plates.com is the first dedicated online marketplace in UK for buyers and sellers of personalised registrations. We are don’t charge commission, we offer adverts for a fixed fee- with no relisting.
