Running an ecommerce store is a time-consuming business. Just updating your products, prices and offers can take up much of your valuable time – time that could be better spent marketing your business, finding new customers, increasing your product range and improving...
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Your best Ecommerce assistant? On and off-page SEO
If you run an online store, you need to attract customers to your shopping site. Whatever you’re selling, there’s bound to be a lot of competition, so how do you stand out from the crowd and make sure your shop appears in front of your target customers. There are...
How to improve ecommerce product content for your retail site
Running a successful retail website means getting a lot of things right. From great photography to well thought-out ecommerce product content; relevant SEO to a clean user journey, your site has to match customer expectations if you’re going to make the sales you...
Expert tips for choosing the best online services for data entry
Data conversion tasks such as data entry, cleansing, reconciliation and manipulation of financial, sales and marketing records are essential to most businesses and require specialised skills, but they don't directly impact the bottom line. If you find that these sorts...
Tasks that your ecommerce business can outsource to a virtual assistant
Running an ecommerce business might sound like an easy way to make money, but the most successful online stores are organised and focused, with all the admin taken care of and clear processes for sourcing, listing, selling and keeping customers happy. It’s a...
Developing an ecommerce strategy – from a virtual web assistant’s point of view
If you run an online business, you need an ecommerce marketing strategy. This will help you to set your goals, understand how best to reach your target audience and measure your progress. The more organised you are, the better your chances of success. And you can do...
The true value of a virtual assistant – CRM management after GDPR
The EU’s General Data Protection Regulations came into force on May 25th 2018, but whilst the regulations were enforceable from that date it would have been unlikely that you ever had a visit from the Information Commissioner’s Office since then. However that date...
5 reasons why data entry accuracy is critical to your business
All businesses rely on data – whether they know it or not. And the more accurate and in-depth your data entry and collection, the more powerful it is. High quality, reliable data can be used to help your business plan, change direction and analyse success. Why collect...
How to improve data entry and processing accuracy
Businesses increasingly rely on good quality data. It helps with everything from budget planning to managing customer relationships. Low quality data can lead to poor decisions, focusing on the wrong areas of the business and neglecting those areas that could lead to...
23 e-commerce tasks to outsource to virtual administration services
Starting up an e-commerce business? Or diversifying to e-commerce to give your business a new income stream? If so, you’re probably going to need some support to help with everyday tasks so that you can concentrate on strategy and making the business work. We’ve...