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: Website Revenue Strategies Blog18 Great Shopping Carts to Power Your Online Store
Are you ready to start selling? Sean lists 18 great shopping cart choices to help you get your store online right away.
11 Contextual Ad Alternatives to Google AdSense
Ready to try something other than Google AdSense to monetize your site? Sean provides a list of 11 contextual ad alternatives that are definitely worth checking out.
7 Great Ad Server Solutions
Ever feel overwhelmed by your advertising? That’s when ad servers come into play. Sean gives us 7 solutions to consider.
13 Affiliate Sales Network Sites
If you have unsold ad inventory on your site, affiliate marketing may be the best solution for you. This list will help you find the affiliates that best match your site.
Will Twitter Start Charging?
We all know Twitter must start charging for something soon. But how can they raise revenue without losing users?
Learn About Affiliate Marketing… For Free
The Affiliate Convention in Denver, Colorado next month is offering free attendance to sponsored affiliates, and SitePoint are a media partner for the event. This could be the cheapest conference ticket you purchase all year!
How to Sell Statistics to Clients
Craig explains how your company could gain a competitive advantage and raise more revenue by selling statistical services to clients.
How Zappos Does Customer Service and Company Culture
At the recent SxSW conference, Matt Mickiewicz was fortunate enough to listen to Tony Hseh, CEO of Zappos, deliver a keynote presentation about how customer service and cultural fit factors into his (very successful) business model.
The Web Site Flipping World Championships
Why should Olympic athletes have all the fun?
If you’re a regular in our marketplace then you’ll want to keep an eye on this competition — the World Championships of Web Site Flipping are happening (a first for the site flipping industry, I believe), proudly sponsored by SitePoint.
Check out all of the contenders that have been spotlighted on the site — nothing really in there to suggest the talents of these flipping warriors, but fun if only to put some real faces to names in the site flipping industry.
There are a stack of prizes on offer — up to $20,000 worth, and that includes a copy of SitePoint’s Web Site Revenue Maximizer kit.
Watch the SiteFlipAcademy blog for more details as they come.
I’m a bit late reporting this, as the date for registering to compete has passed.Chaunna from SiteFlipAcademy informs me that it’s not too late to register and be involved. “You have until July 12th to flip like crazy and the score cards (that you’ll receive in the contender kit) need to be submitted by the 16th.” So if you’re interested in getting involved, get flipping!
I love you Mr AMD Opteron Dual Core!
The critical importance of performance in generating traffic to your site is something that you learn very early in your online education. But as your site grows and things become more complicated its true value can often become clouded. So easily are you seduced by more fun and interesting considerations such as functionality, usability, aesthetics, and interface design.
But here’s one simple reason why you can never EVER forget why site performance is so important.
In the last few weeks we’ve upgraded our our blogs and moved our forum to the latest version of vBulletin. Very quickly our sys admin became concerned with the growing pressure on our servers. I’m no expert, but even I could see the dramatic shift in some of the utilization graphs I was shown…
The tipping point was Wednesday and we raised the priority of some longer term plans as well as implemented a quick upgrade to our server hardware (a couple of shiny new AMD Opteron Dual Core CPU’s.)
The effect was instantaneous and dramatic. Our response times were better than before the upgrades…
Result: The next day, bang, a 33% increase in our forum traffic!
So you can …
