AdSmartly Review | AdSmartly Bonus And Demo

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AdSmartly Review : Bonus

AdSmartly – what is it? AdSmartly is a new 1 click software that will help you capture email leads of clickers, likers and commenters instantly on complete autopilot without a landing page or optin form to enable you to market to them again and again…

AdsMartly makes you a winner with every facebook ad you run, get you leads with just 1-click with no fear of bounce landing page, instantly create sales pages, squeeze pages and sell affiliate products plus custom products inside your facebook fan page.

Many people don’t use FB ads because they have bad experience with ROI. Fortunately With AdSmartly Fb ads is now for everyone. Because it solve the two major pains of our customers : losing leads after they click on a paid ad and not being able to follow up with your most engaged audience (all the people who liked and commented on your ads).

This is the most sought after tool many marketers have been wishing they had in their marketing arsenal. With AdSmartly you will no longer loose the connection with this audience who took efforts to comment or like on your Ads. Fortunately, you will never loose your Ad $$ to Facebook ever again.

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Vidiglitch Review | Vidiglitch Bonus And Demo

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Vidiglitch Review : Bonus

Vidiglitch – what is it? Vidiglitch is a brand new – completes pack of ready-to-go “glitch style” animation videos and presentation templates perfectly to present your business, products or brand, which is actually can be found in some marketplaces.

This is a complete solution for you to market your product and business, and make it easy to increase tyour conversion and sales using professional videos, marketing graphics, and presentations.

With Vidiglitch templates you do not need to spend thousand of dollars to get your video marketing done by a Professional, you do not need any more trouble to learn complicated video software and do  not need to wait for weeks to get your videos done by PRO Designer.

Because now you can simply create your own amazing video marketing using this brand new “VIDIGLITCH – Sophisticated ‘Glitch Style’ Video Templates” . It’s not just video templates, inside the you will get :

• 10 ‘GLITCH STYLE’ INTRO & TEASER VIDEOS ​
• 10 FACEBOOK ‘GLITCHY’ VIDEO COVERS​
• 10 ‘GLITCHY’ INSTAGRAM STORY VIDEOS​
• 10 FACEBOOK MOBILE ‘VIDEO ADS’​
• 10 INSTAGRAM NEWSFEED ‘VIDEO ADS’​
• 10 INSTAGRAM STORY ‘AD IMAGES’​
• 10 ANIMATED INSTAGRAM STORY ‘AD IMAGES’​
• 6 POWERPOINT PRESENTATION TEMPLATES

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How E-Commerce Companies Can Compete in an Amazon-Dominated World

When it comes to e-commerce marketplace dominance, Amazon is at the top of the food chain.

Over 44% of all product searches begin in Amazon’s search bar, and Amazon owns almost half of all U.S. online retail sales.

And if CEO Jeff Bezos has anything to say about it, that’s just the beginning.

Even some of the other biggest retail giants in the world have a tough time competing against Amazon.

Companies like Walmart, Apple, Macy’s, and Costo still can’t stack up against the behemoth that is Amazon.

So how can anyone else even compete? How do you stand a chance?

Well, you don’t.

The simple truth of the matter is that you don’t really stand a chance of competing.

But the key is that you don’t actually have to compete.

You just have to learn how to co-exist.

DON’T compete with Amazon

The bottom line is that you won’t be able to invest the time and capital it takes to build anything close to what Amazon is offering.

In terms of infrastructure, scale, and sheer sales numbers, they’re killing it.

They have a massive physical footprint as well, which is only growing with their recent launch of brick-and-mortar stores around the U.S.

But you probably already know that you can’t compete with their size.

Some may tell you that even if you can’t compete with their scale, you can compete in other ways, like offering competitive discounts and free shipping for your own customers.

But in terms of product pricing, you still probably can’t offer a better deal to your customers than the price they could find on Amazon.

And yes, free shipping is cool. But Amazon has and will probably always have better shipping deals simply because they can afford to have better shipping deals.

In these instances, you can’t beat them.

But there is one realm where you can live in the same relative sphere as Amazon: customer experience.

Amazon has a lot of the same problems that most retailers have when dealing with customer service. They still deal with customer complaints with varying degrees of success, just like everyone else.

And customer experience can play a big role in customer retention and loyalty.

So while you might not have the means and motives of the largest retailer on the Internet, you can still offer something that customers want:

Experience.

Here are a few ways to offer a comparable customer experience to Amazon’s without breaking the bank.

1. Create a solid product offering for your niche

As Neil Irwin once pointed out, Amazon has a “winner-takes-all” approach to sales.

They want to sell every product in every category. If you think about it, their “niche” is really a lack of a niche. They sell to everyone.

But you can’t do that. You simply can’t appeal to the wide audience that Amazon does with their vast selection of products.

So what can you do instead? Do just the opposite: sell within a niche.

Just like you can’t appeal to the wide audience that Amazon markets to, Amazon can’t satisfy every need in every niche. That’s where you have an opportunity to fill in the gaps.

If you already have a decent product offering and audience, start with what you have. Look at your existing products and find a way to fit them into a narrower niche.

This might mean that you focus on curating products that meet customer demands rather than trying to be ultra-competitive on product pricing.

Studies show that after customer experience, the second biggest reason a customer will ditch your brand is dissatisfaction with the product itself.

You can save yourself a few headaches by putting some extra effort into marketing and promoting your products and making sure they work for your audience.

But don’t be afraid to look for other smaller product categories and niches that might serve your audience, too.

The other way that you can go about niching is by using Amazon’s categories to find smaller, profitable niches that fit well with a current customer base and product line.

If you go to Amazon, you can find hundreds of niche ideas on their site directory.

Clicking on any product category will also give you a list of dozens more niche and category ideas.

This will give you a better idea of the types of products your customers may want from your brand.

When you can tailor the shopping experience to their specific tastes, you can “compete” with Amazon because you’re giving them what they want in a one-stop shop: your site.

2. Use customer data to inform your business

Amazon collects data on every single customer of their 300 million customers.

They collect information on all kinds of things: browsing details (IP addresses, operating system, etc.), search queries, wishlists, reviews and previous order history, and other datasets.

They do this to inform a lot of their marketing strategies and determine how to best serve their customers in other ways.

Some of the things they use customer data for include:

• Product recommendations based on previous searches, wishlists, and order history
• Kindle book recommendations based on data from Goodreads
• One-click ordering based on user profiles
• Anticipatory shipping (their patented model) based on user profiles
• Supply chain optimization based on customer locations (user profiles)
• Product pricing optimization based on search inquiries and competitive data
• Cloud storage optimization (Amazon Web Services) based on user data

A former Amazon employee once said that Amazon “has the ability to track both what people are buying as well as what they search for and can’t find.”

This is part of what gives them the edge over competitors in a lot of ways.

But you can also use customer and competitive data to help improve your offerings in the same way that Amazon does.

One retailer, Spearmint LOVE, saw a year-over-year growth of 991% when they started using their customer data to create more targeted Facebook Ads, for example.

They were also able to use dynamic product ads to retarget shoppers who had visited their site, improving their reach by simply using basic data you can easily gather from Google Analytics.

According to research cited by McKinsey, companies that use customer data to inform their practices see 85% more sales and 25% more gross margins than those that ignore their data.

You can use the behavioral data you already have in your database (customer profiles and shopping history, etc.) to improve key areas of customer acquisition and retention.

Just because you can’t shell out hundreds of thousands of dollars to acquire data like Amazon does, it doesn’t mean you can’t use the same strategies they use to propel your business forward.

It’s a matter of using the resources you do have to improve your offerings.

3. Consider adding subscription services

Convenience is something Amazon offers in abundance.

They do this by offering subscription services like Subscribe and Save, which offers customers the chance to receive specific products automatically every month.

An Amazon Prime membership also comes with some convenience perks like free two-day shipping and unlimited streaming and use of Amazon’s other services.

They now also offer Amazon Payments, which gives customers the additional convenience of being able to purchase items from other retailers using an Amazon account. (Amazon also tracks these purchases to fuel their data even further, of course.)

Adding something like a subscription service not only provides convenience for customers, but it also can help your own revenue.

Research shows that businesses with subscriptions increase revenue twice as fast as their competitors and see 2x the overall growth.

To take advantage of a subscription model like Amazon’s and consider offering renewable subscriptions for certain products that are likely to be repeat purchases.

Or, if few of your products lend themselves to repeat purchases, consider offering a curated box of specific items every month (the subscription box model) like Birchbox and Dollar Shave Club.

Other ideas might include:

• Subscription-based shipping plans
• Offers from specific manufacturers
• Product discounts for membership

This not only sets you up for more sales in the long run, but it also gives customers a chance to get products from you without sacrificing their convenience.

4. Improve your shipping

Now, you can’t directly compete with Amazon when it comes to shipping.

Technically, not even Amazon fulfillment can compete with Amazon.

According to GeekWire, Amazon lost $7.2 billion from shipping in 2017 between what it cost them and what they charged. But they have more than enough revenue from other sources to make up for it.

You probably don’t.

The goal isn’t to compete, anyway. Your goal is to stay in the game.

To do that, there are plenty of ways you can improve your shipping to provide additional convenience and customer service.

First up, consider offering free or discounted shipping for a minimum threshold or for specific products.

For example, REI offers free shipping on purchases over $50, but they include other caveats to the rule that allow them to maintain this offer without losing money. For example, the offer isn’t valid for special orders or prior purchases.

Studies show that 48% of shoppers on average will add items to their carts if it means that they can qualify for free shipping. So, while it might come with some initial costs for you, you’re more likely to see a return in added purchases.

If you have specific products that are lightweight (cost effective to ship, for example), you can offer free shipping on ground delivery orders.

Most carriers have slower, low-cost shipping options.

USPS parcel post, for instance, is typically cheaper than priority mail, so you’ll spend less.

Customers then have the option to pay to upgrade. But when they do they know it’s a choice rather than a requirement, so they’re less likely to be dissatisfied.

If you’re really in a bind financially but want to deliver products for no cost, you do have the option of including those shipping costs in the retail cost of the product.

Of course, you will have to tread carefully with this idea, as your product might appear less favorable on price comparison sites due to the markup.

Another option is to simply offer flat rates for your shipping.

While it’s not free, it still offers customers cheaper shipping for varying products and encourages them to purchase more.

If they’ll pay the same shipping price for one item as they would for ten items, then why not just get ten products, right?

5. Make an effort with customer service

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, the best way you can stay on par with Amazon is by offering outstanding customer service.

Amazon actually does fairly well at this. 67% of respondents to Amazon’s customer service report last year indicated that they were “very satisfied.”

But what exactly makes customer service satisfying for the majority of consumers?

According to research by GetApp Lab, the most valuable component of good customer service is simply a real, knowledgeable human on the other end of the line.

However, the study showed that it didn’t really matter if the customer service was offered through email, a phone call, or a chat service.

When the rep was perceived to be real (or the correspondence was personalized enough), customers were happier with the results.

So what does this mean for your customer service?

This means putting real people in charge of your customer service. If you already have a team of people who handle customer complaints, you can add automation to shorten response times.

If you don’t have a large team of people who handle customer service requests, you can always outsource the job using a customer service software or apps like LiveChat, Desk.com or Help Scout.

While it is a bit of an extra cost (though some services are free depending on your usage and the size of your company), it’s well worth it in terms of customer loyalty.

There are plenty of other ways that you can make sure you have responsive service, however.

You can set up automatic replies on social media or use notifications to alert you when customers ask questions over social media.

If you’re responsive enough, Facebook will actually tell customers how soon you typically reply to messages sent via Facebook Messenger.

The more active you are, the more customers will tend to trust you. And automation cuts down on the time and energy for your customer service team.

You can also include SMS text updates or responses for mobile customers.

Whichever technology you choose, just make sure you’re keeping the human element alive.

Even when customer service reps can’t resolve an issue, responsiveness and friendliness will still improve your customer service rating.

Even when you can’t compete with Amazon for things like competitive prices or shipping, you can always go above and beyond with customer service to set yourself up as a worthy alternative.

Who knows? At the end of the day, customers might prefer your store over Amazon simply due to your outstanding customer service.

That’s the goal, anyway.

Conclusion

While it would be nice to say that any store can compete with Amazon, it’s just not the case.

Even the biggest brands out there have a hard time slowing down Jeff Bezos and his master plan to take over the e-commerce universe.

But while we wait for that to happen, there’s plenty that e-commerce stores can do to keep their customers just as happy as Amazon’s customers.

First, focus on having a great product offering that targets your niche. Or consider reaching out to new niches to find customers who might not even be on Amazon. (And remember that you can actually use Amazon to do this.)

Next, use your data to your advantage. You have customer information sitting there. Find ways to offer product recommendations or improve your Facebook Ads using what you know.

Then it’s about finding ways to make customers happy.

Offer subscription services on repeatable products, include free shipping in as many ways as you can (no, it doesn’t have to cost you an arm and a leg like it does Amazon), and, most importantly, make customers happy.

If nothing else, you can have just as high of a satisfaction rate as Amazon by doing the little things that matter to customers.

How can non-Amazon marketers compete in an Amazon world?

About the Author: Neil Patel is the cofounder of Neil Patel Digital.

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Evergreen Leads Business Review : Bonus

Evergreen Leads Business – what is it? Evergreen Leads Business is not your typical List Building course. By typical I don’t mean “build a landing page, buy solo ads and send in traffic”. Yes that works, but what if you are running a local business? Selling a professional service? Often times, you can’t buy solo ads to get traffic on these because there’s no such thing in the first place.

The money is in the list. If you’re not building your list, you’re not building your business. Period. Unfortunately, most books, courses and seminars out there teach methods that are either bad, outdated or works but is limited to certain niches.

Evergreen Leads Business is based on Edmund Loh experience using the same techniques to drive in traffic and leads to a timeless funnel – whether to sell his products online, get Coaching Clients, and even sit people for live seminars and workshops!

This course is for anyone who wants to generate leads and sales online – continuously – without depending on short term methods and where product launches and solo ads are not applicable in their niche or trade. When you buy this course you are also getting Private Label Rights and  this means yous can resell this to their own followers and mailing list, and even brand this as their own.

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WP Quick Launch 3.0 Review : Demo And Bonus

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How the Customer Experience is Powering the Fastest Growing Brands

A form of this article originally appeared on Stitch Labs. Stitch Labs is a purpose-built inventory management software to help brands improve customer experience and scale efficiency. Download the original guide here.

When we talk about the future of retail, industry news is abuzz with the idea of brands creating experiences for their customers. Consumers want more than an email newsletter—they want easy tracking and personalization. They want more than a product—they want community. The experiences we read about in headlines are often grandiose and costly, like virtual fitting rooms and same-day shipping. So, how can small- to mid-sized brands keep up with this trend in a cost-effective, creative way? With the help of scrappy teams and technology to automate processes, these brands are not only keeping up with the trend, but also are redefining it and leveraging it to grow. In this guide, we’ll discuss different approaches for building a memorable customer experience and how successful brands are executing on these creative ideas.

Automated Personalization Isn’t a Contradiction

Most businesses under-invest in customer loyalty, even though establishing some type of loyalty program is one of the most obvious ways retailers enhance their customer experience. Instead, they often put all of their eggs in the new customer acquisition basket. While this approach may work well in the early days of a business, it can be detrimental for scaling later. In order to set your business up for future success, you’ll want to think early on about a backend system that will scale with you. You’ll also want to think about today’s first-time customers who you hope will become tomorrow’s loyal brand advocates. As you grow in resources, you can consider many types of loyalty programs that will help you track and analyze customer behaviors and reward repeat purchases. If you’re starting out, there are simpler—yet still scalable— ways to personalize the customer experience. Customizing gifts based on the product someone buys is a thoughtful—yet realistic—way to make a customer feel warm and fuzzy about your brand. Chubbies, a clothing brand with an emphasis on the weekend lifestyle known for their colorful shorts and hilariously quirky marketing campaigns, figured out a way to send gifts without breaking the bank.

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With their target customer in mind, they created add-on gifts like branded koozies, coasters, and baseball cards that fit within their lifestyle theme but are significantly less expensive than sending an additional item of clothing. The gifts can match the purchases, too. For example, sending sunscreen when someone buys a swimsuit, or golf tees when a customer purchases golf shorts. This program is able to delight the customer in a personalized way, without having to know personalized information about the customer. In automating this process, they can quickly swap out a gift that isn’t garnering excitement and track orders so customers don’t receive the same gift twice. Their customers are surprised and delighted to receive add-ons and their loyal social media followers will often post their latest gift, thus increasing brand awareness in addition to fostering loyalty.

Using Data To Improve Customer Experience

The previous section is all about personalising the offline experience with your brand, but what about improving the online one?

The better you know your customer, the better the experience you can deliver – on and off-line. Data from customer behavior on your eCommerce site allows you to better understand your customer and therefore engage with them in a way that is deeply personalized to their experiences with your brand. With customers being bombarded with emails and offers that have little relevance to how they’ve interacted with a brand, you can stand out with more targeted, personalized engagements.

To do this, a tool like Kissmetrics collects person-based behavioral data, defines and tracks key customer segments and then enables you to engage more effectively across email, facebook and more. You can segment by location, products purchased, time between events, etc. The more detailed you make your segmentation, the more easily you can personalize your messaging. Why does this matter? Because when you create refined segments of your many different customer types and tailor messaging uniquely toward just that segment you’re creating yet another delightful moment between your brand and your customer. Not to mention better suited engagements increase purchases and brand loyalty.

Collaborations: Combine Forces To Get New Customers

While brands obviously want customers to love their products enough to buy from them time and time again, we know no customer is 100 percent brand loyal. Even your most loyal customers have other brands they love and those are the very brands with whom you should consider working. Topo Designs, a Denver-based outdoor apparel and bag company, has partnered with brands like Woolrich and Chacos (not direct competitors, but other brands Topo’s target customer loves!) to create unique, limited-edition items that they then promote across both of their customer bases.

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Even if your brand doesn’t have the desire or resources to make physical products with another brand, there are many ways to collaborate with lower barriers to entry. Find brands with similar audiences and aesthetic and stock each other’s items in your brick and-mortar stores. Create a themed “swag bag” with several other brands and host an Instagram giveaway by having followers tag three friends for a chance to win. Similarly, host a giveaway where those who enter to win agree to sign up for your and your partners’ email lists.

Austin-based metallic tattoo and accessories company, Flash Tattoos is always finding ways to collaborate with brands who share target audiences. Entries can be as simple as tagging friends in an Instagram post or you could go so far as to have people fill out a form to ensure you’re capturing email addresses (and even additional information you can use to collect data). Keep in mind, the more involved the entry procedure, the more desirable you’ll want to make your prize.

Events: The Low Cost Way To Get Foot Traffic In Your Store

Want an even easier way to collaborate with other brands—without having to give away free product? Consider hosting an event at your store (or theirs). Modern Citizen, a San Francisco-based women’s apparel brand, hosts a series of events both with and without partners to foster a sense of community while getting people into their physical store. For one event, they teamed up with Fashion Incubator SF, a nonprofit that supports up and coming fashion designers. They hosted an open discussion with the two founders and answered questions from the audience—which was made up mainly of their exact target demographic. The total cost of the event was buying donuts and coffee for 30 people (who each purchased $10 tickets to attend, the proceeds of which were donated to Fashion Incubator SF) but they were able to establish themselves as thought leaders and make sales from the shopping attendees did after the talk. Additionally, they sent an email after the event thanking everyone who attended and included a 15 percent off coupon code that expires at the end of the month, encouraging further shopping as well as a sense of urgency and immediacy.

But what if you don’t have a physical store? Brands everywhere are using popups to boost awareness and collect data in a cost-effective way. Whether it’s renting a booth at a local fair or event or even creating a mobile trailer to determine the best location for your next (or first!) brick-and-mortar, temporary shops are great ways to gauge interest and build hype without breaking the bank.

Build a Community

Many brands are still at loss when it comes to Amazon. Is it better to adopt a, ‘if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em’ approach, or try to compete as best you can with the behemoth? Building a community is small to mid-sized brands leg up on Amazon. They may provide same day shipping and low costs, but they don’t provide the customer experience that’s only increasing in importance for today’s consumer. One team hyper-focused on building a community and showing their customers they’re much more than a shoe brand is Freda Salvador. Through their mobile shoe trailer, in-store events, and collaborations with other brands, Freda Salvador is everywhere their customer is.

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Similar to Modern Citizen, the Freda team hosts in-store events that both increase foot traffic and brand awareness while simultaneously creating a sense of community between customers and the brand. They often choose tangentially related concepts that their target customer is interested in—like a flower arrangement workshop, a skin care workshop, etc. Since they aren’t actually selling anything Freda-related at the event or even talking about their brand, this is a great way to foster a sense of community in an authentic way.

Have a Backend That Supports Your Initiatives

There are so many creative ways to enhance your consumer experience but even the most well-intentioned plan can have the opposite effect on customer retention if your backend can’t support it. These creative ideas are great ways to connect with your customer, but you first and foremost must master the most basic customer experience: getting the right product, to the right person, at the right time. If someone can’t count on your brand for clear and descriptive product pages, easy checkout, and speedy delivery, you’ve already fallen behind. So, before you begin creating the experience of your customers’ dreams, get organized and make sure you have the right systems and people in place. Stitch Labs provides brands with visibility into their inventory at all times and across all channels, allowing them to be more efficient with their inventory. Stitch connects to your eCommerce site, 3PL, and marketplaces to make sure inventory numbers are accurate and you know where a product is at all times. This level of control lets you not worry about inventory, so you can focus on what matters most—your customers.

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Transformation: Slogan or Practical Approach?

Talk to any cloud provider in Silicon Valley or anywhere around the world and you will hear catchphrases such as digital disruption, digital transformation, and business transformation. All of these phrases can strike fear into the hearts and minds of preoccupied business people that are just trying to keep the lights on with a positive cash flow.

Their most frequent response often is: “How do you expect me to transform my business? Where would I start? And why would I do that…especially if my business works fine now!” Yet as Bob Dylan once sang, “The times they are a-changin.’ And a-changin’ they are once again.”

McKinsey states that “since year 2000 over 50% of Fortune 500 companies have been acquired, merged or declared bankruptcy. With no end in sight.”

With those odds, even Clint Eastwood as Dirty Harry would hesitate to utter the words, “Do you feel lucky?”

Yet luck is often described as when preparation meets opportunity. So how prepared is your business for a future that relies on cutting-edge SaaS cloud application innovation? Is your business equipped to:

·        Reduce time to market

·        Reduce costs

·        Provide intelligent pricing and demand sensing

·        Tailor your workforce

·        Have “machines” intelligently handle repetitive financial processes

·        Provide exceptional, empathetic customer experiences

·        Manage your global digital supply chains with ease

…all concurrently?

All while easily adopting emerging cloud technologies, such as:

·        Artificial intelligence

·        Machine learning

·        Digital assistants

·        Data clouds

·        Chatbots

·        Blockchain

·        Internet of Things (IoT) and more

The question at hand is: “How do you shift the business paradigm from a slow, do-it-yourself, IT maintenance mentality (with all its associated costs) to a paradigm of business transformation and innovation in the cloud with scale and speed?”

The advantages are clear: Jaime Vogel, the CIO of Australian Finance Group, recently estimated $385,000 in savings annually by moving 80 on-premises applications to the cloud. He also notes that the organization is processing commission payments five times faster than before and has increased IT budget spending on innovation from 20% to 60%.

As in this case, we are seeing more and more customers recognizing the opportunity to augment their current business model quickly by using the cloud.

How to get started: Start planning to create a connected intelligent business with a complete Oracle Cloud SaaS Application suite—the easiest way to transform your business fast.

• Learn more about how to transform your business in the cloud with connected intelligence.

Watch how Australian Finance Group transformed their business with Oracle Cloud Applications: 

Lisa M. Schwartz is senior director at Oracle Cloud Applications product marketing. You can follow her on Twitter: @leeza2020

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Builderall 2 Review | Builderall 2 Bonus

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Bulderall 2 Review : Bonus

Bulderall 2 – what is it? Builderall is the all-in-one Internet Marketing tool suite that has JUST been improved! It also includes over a hundred local business templates! These are full fledged websites you can sell to local businesses.

Builderall also includes hosting, so you don’t even have to worry about that! And now.. Builderall Business is a 2-tier reseller program that can make you a lot of money!

Builderall 2 business is so much more than a Business-in-a-box. It’s a proven solution you can leverage to build a solid business in one of the best niches in the world. With a top selling product and a huge demand, it is offered for an irresistible price that generates recurring payments!

This is a proven business that you can get started with immediately. Without any effort, you can grow and sell. It gets a guaranteed market business value since it lies in the most solid and essential online niche; hosting and software.

This is the most complete digital marketing platform on the planet. Allowing unlimited websites, domains, pages, videos, hosting, support, training, tutorials, thousands of templates, e-commerce, app builder, constant upgrades included and a 10,000 subscriber autoresponder with unlimited email sending quota for just a small monthly fee. The cost is WAY less than the value of a single tool of basic hosting for a website.

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10 Accounting Basics You Need to Know to Run a Successful E-commerce Business

Accounting is a painful necessity.

It’s the boring side of the business. I don’t like dealing with it either.

But, if you want your business to grow, you can’t avoid it.

You could try tossing all your receipts into a shoebox and handing them to a stranger.

But you’ll be handing them financial control. That means risking the success of your business.

You’d be handing them a nice chunk of change to do it all for you too.

I promise it’s not as complex as you might fear, though.

And you shouldn’t need an accountant for day-to-day management.

Even if you do pay for help, you should still know the basics yourself.

This way you can understand and question what someone is telling you.

After all, it’s your business at stake.

The following ten accounting basics will cover everything you need to know to understand your money and ask the smart questions.

1. Get yourself accounting software

Don’t try to piece it all together using excel or a calculator.

Do yourself a favor and get accounting software. Freshbooks is marketed to customers who run e-commerce businesses.

Or if you use Shopify, there are a bunch of accounting software apps you can get right in their app store.

Not sure what you want? Test out a free one. Or pick one with a 30-day free trial.

The best option will depend on your business and preferences.

If you’re shopping through the app store, make sure you’re picking a bookkeeping system.

Look for an app that will track sales, costs, and inventory.

Avoid apps that only create invoices or just provide reports. You want a tool that can do it all for you.

Whether you pick software through Shopify or go with something else, pick one that will sync directly to your e-commerce store.

It will make life a whole lot easier.

2. Track your cash flows

Step two: watch your cash.

If you don’t have a separate bank account for your business yet, get one.

You need to know that your business is making money. And the easiest way to see this is to watch your cash flow.

If you have more coming in then going out, you’re probably doing well, right?

You also should be watching the timing of money going out and coming in.

After all, what if all your bills are due tomorrow?

It won’t matter a whole lot if you have $1 million coming in next month if you can’t pay your employees until then.

Keep in mind any holds you have on your accounts.

What payment methods do you offer your customers? Do any of them place a hold on the money?

Is there a five-day delay from the time a customer pays to the time the money is in your bank? You need to know this when you’re figuring out when you’ll have money to spend.

Shopify offers a free template for tracking cash. You can easily create your own in excel.

Track what you expect to spend each week. Track what money you expect to come in each week.

If what you need to spend is more than your current bank balance plus what’s coming in, you know you’re about to have a problem.

Follow these tips to help improve your cash flow:

• Don’t pay anything earlier than you have to. If it’s due in 30 days, pay it in 30 days.
• Consider offering monthly payment plans or subscriptions to customers to guarantee money coming in.
• Keep a reserve in your business bank account ‘just in case.’
• Don’t overcomplicate it. You don’t need huge technical cash flow statements.

3. Determine how to count inventory

If you’re selling a service, then ignore this step.

Inventory is the product you sell or all the materials you use to build that product.

Don’t forget to include any costs for wrapping or packaging your product.

Decide what minimum volume of inventory you want to have on hand, and make sure you are tracking inventory so you can reorder before you pass this point.

The last thing you want is to run out of inventory and lose sales.

Why is inventory part of accounting basics?

Inventory equals money.

It’s money you spent to buy the stuff. Money you won’t make back until you sell your product.

And the money tied to your inventory can change while it’s sitting in your warehouse (or store, or apartment).

If I buy 50 products at $100 each, and tomorrow the price shoots up to $150, my inventory is suddenly worth more.

But if the price drops tomorrow to $50, my inventory is worth less.

And watch out for ‘shrinkage’!

That’s when you suddenly have less inventory than what you’re supposed to.

You know you bought 50 products. You know you’ve sold and shipped 40.

You should have 10 left, right?

What if you only have 8 left?

That is ‘shrinkage.’

Maybe an item got lost, or stolen, or was ruined and had to be thrown out. There are lots of reasons it happens.

The good news is shrinkage is lower when you don’t have a physical retail store.

Warehouse shrinkage is actually pretty low. Typical shrinkage is less than 1% of your total inventory.

If you’re operating a business out of your home, it’s even less likely you will have shrinkage.

After all, you’re less likely to have someone steal inventory if you’re the only one around it.

It’s also a lot harder to lose inventory in an apartment compared to a huge warehouse.

That said, shrinkage can happen to anyone.

This is why it’s important to physically count inventory regularly. You need to know if you just ‘lost’ $100 worth of product and factor that into your accounting.

4. Understand your cost of goods sold

Cost of goods sold is the expense directly tied to the products you sold.

This is the inventory sold plus how much it cost to make that inventory.

Let’s say you sell one widget. Whatever it cost you for the parts plus whatever it cost to build it should be the cost of goods sold for that widget.

If the parts of the widget cost $50, packaging cost $10, and you paid someone $25 to put it together, your cost for that widget is $85.

This can get a lot more confusing to figure out if you bought a lot of widgets at different prices, and you’re paying different people different salaries to put them together.

Don’t overcomplicate things.

The easiest way to figure it out is to use a weighted average. Here’s an example of calculating a weighted average:

($440 divided by 5 is $88.)

Anything that is tied directly to your products and has a cost increase when you make more stuff should be in cost of goods sold.

If you pay employees per every widget they make, include their labor.

If you pay them a flat hourly rate even if they don’t make a single thing that day, don’t include their labor in the cost of goods sold.

The retail price of an item minus the cost of that item is your ‘gross margin.’

This is not your profit. It just tells you how much you’re making on each item before you add in all your other expenses.

Things can get pretty complicated here if you have different costs for different sales conditions.

For example, do you offer free shipping on all orders over $100?

This means your cost of goods sold is going to increase every time a customer buys more than $100 worth of stuff.

It will also change for each different location you ship to.

Some websites will tell you not to include shipping in costs of goods sold.

I disagree. ‘Freight out’ goes up or down with the volume you sell.

To simplify it, let your accounting system track your actual cost of goods sold. If it’s linked to your e-commerce site, it should be able to do this automatically.

For predicting your future cost of goods sold, save yourself a headache and just use an average.

If last month you sold $1,000 and paid $150 for shipping, that’s 15%.

So you can assume that if next month you sell $2,000 you will probably pay $300 (or 15%) for shipping.

It won’t be perfect, but it’s better than just leaving the cost out of planning.

Here’s a simple way to calculate your rough average cost of goods sold, including shipping, packaging and any other e-commerce fees:

5. Calculate all other expenses

Now you know your costs directly tied to sales volume.

Next, you need to understand how much everything else is costing you.

Any expenses that don’t increase when you sell more or decrease when you sell less are called ‘fixed expenses.’

For example, if you pay a monthly rent, the amount is fixed. It won’t change whether you sell one widget or one million.

These costs aren’t part of the cost of goods sold and aren’t factored into your gross margin.

They do affect your profit and your cash flow, though.

Common fixed expenses are:

• Rent
• Utilities
• Insurance
• Property Tax
• Interest on loan payments
• Salaries

These expenses are considered ‘fixed’ since you have to pay them even if you sell nothing next month.

Don’t get this confused with an expense being the exact same amount every month.

An expense like utilities might be more one month than the next. Or it might be more in the winter than in the summer.

It’s still a fixed expense in accounting terms.

If any expense changes month-to-month, you should use an average for budgeting.

6. Figure out your break-even sales requirement

Budgeting and planning are important parts of running a business.

After all, you’re not going to just want to know if you made a profit last month, you’re going to want to know if you expect to make one this month and next.

Your break-even sales amount is the amount of sales dollars you need to earn to cover all of your costs.

For example, let’s say all your ‘fixed costs’ add up to $5,000 per month.

This means you have to sell enough of your product to cover the cost of making them (including the labor) plus an additional $5,000 just to break-even (no profit and no loss).

Figure out your gross margin per unit (from the fourth basic).

Then divide your fixed costs by that amount to figure out the number of units you need to sell.

If your break-even number of units is 5,000 and you think you can only make or sell 3,000, you know you’re in trouble.

If break-even is 5,000 and you think you can make and sell at least 10,000 then you know you should be making money.

Remember that your fixed costs don’t easily change.

For example, if you’re in a five-year lease, you’re going to struggle to find a way to lower your rent.

This means if your break-even seems too high, you should first look at either raising your prices of trying to lower your costs of goods sold.

You could do this by charging more for shipping, using cheaper materials or finding cheaper labor.

Here’s a visual of break-even:

7. Track your sales and profits before tax

Now you know how many items you need to sell to break even.

Next, you need a way to track your sales.

This lets you know early on if you’re going to have an issue. It will also help you manage your money.

Let’s say you figured out you need to sell 5,000 units to break even.

It’s now the 15th of the month, and you’ve only sold 1500.

If you’re tracking your sales, you’re able to notice this. Now you have time to do something about it.

You still have two weeks left to try and drum up more business with some extra digital marketing efforts.

Just make sure that if it’s paid marketing, you figure the cost of that into your budget.

After all, if you spend $2000 to increase sales by $1000 then it wasn’t worth it, right?

One way to track your sales is by linking Google Analytics to your e-commerce site.

Google Analytics even has a plug-in for your e-commerce site to make it easier.

Log in to your Google Analytics and go to your Admin Settings.

Next, go to your e-commerce settings.

Then turn on the ‘Enable e-commerce’ switch and ‘submit.’

You can learn more about Google Analytics in some of my other posts, or check out my video.

But let’s get back to accounting.

Now that you know sales, cost of goods sold and all your other ‘fixed’ expenses, you know your earnings before tax as well.

Keep in mind profits don’t mean cash in hand!

Let’s say you sell a service worth $3,000, but you offer a three-month payment plan.

Your sales would show $3,000, but your bank account may only show $1,000.

That means even if your accounting software says you made a profit of $500 after all expenses, you won’t have an extra $500 in your bank account.

If all of your expenses are actually paid out this month, then your bank out could go into the red.

There are tons of accounting rules around when to recognize revenue.

The timing for when to recognize sales and expenses can get pretty complex.

Leave this for your accountant and tax time. It’s not important when it comes to the day-to-day management of your business.

If you ever go public, you’ll need to know the more advanced accounting reporting requirements, but they’re not needed for managing your business.

8. Set up the proper tax rates for customers

Here’s the part most people groan about: taxes.

Taxes are unavoidable, and they can get pretty complicated.

If you sell a lot of different products and services to a lot of people around the world, you may want to consult a professional at this point.

Thankfully, systems are pretty smart these days.

Your e-commerce software should take care of most of this for you.

As long as you flag a product as something that is taxable, once your customer puts in their address, it should calculate the tax payable.

If you use Shopify, you can set this up on the Tax settings:

And if you have tax exempt products or customers, you can set up exemptions directly in your e-commerce store.

The detailed instructions for Shopify exemptions can be found here.

9. Plan for your tax payments

Now that you’re properly set up to collect tax, you also need to make sure you’re ready to pay it.

Your tax rules will depend on where you’re physically located.

At a minimum, expect that you need to submit as much in tax as you’ve collected.

This means it’s important to recognize that money as tax and set it aside. If not, it could hurt when it comes time to file!

Some online shopping services, such as Shopify, allow you to include tax into your sales price.

This means that your product is always $40.00 whether you’re selling it to a customer who pays no tax or one who pays 15% tax.

The difference is that your sales price, and profit, are lower whenever your customer is in a region of higher tax.

I wouldn’t recommend using this function.

It can make it more difficult to plan actual sales dollars you expect to earn.

It can also make it easy to lose track of how much profit you collected and how much tax you collected (which you will then have to pay out).

If you do want to include tax in your prices, make sure you can run a tax report.

This should easily tell you how much you collected in taxes, so you can still identify it and put it aside.

For Shopify tax reports, go to Reports, then Finances.

Then, click on ‘Taxes,’ and it will bring you to the detailed tax report:

It’s a good idea to set aside any taxes you will need to pay out, so they don’t get lost in your bank balance or included in your cash flow.

Consider opening a separate account just for taxes.

10. Understand your balance sheet

We’ve now covered everything on your income statement, as well as cash flow.

The final thing to cover is the balance sheet.

This is what helps you track your company’s long-term health to see overall how your company is doing.

An income statement is a snapshot in time. A balance sheet is the bigger picture.

The balance sheet is made up of assets, liabilities, and equity.

Assets are things you have of value, like cash in the bank.

Liabilities are debts or payments you owe.

Equity is the difference between the two.

Let’s say your car is worth $50,000 and you have $30,000 you still owe on it.

That means your asset is $50,000, your liability is $30,000, and your equity is $20,000.

If you sold the car today, you’d get $50,000 in cash. Then you have to pay off the $30,000 in debt that you owe, and you’re left with $20,000 in your pocket.

This means you have equity and if you had to get rid of the car today, you’d make money.

This is how you want your business’ balance sheet to look.

Here’s a more common scenario:

Your car was worth $50,000 when you bought it. You took out a $50,000 loan to purchase it.

As soon as you drove it off the lot, it dropped in value and is now only worth $40,000. It’s depreciation, which means that things decrease in value as they get older.

If you need to sell it now, you will sell it for $40,000, and pay off $40,000 in debt.

You will be left with no car and still owe $10,000 in debt.

This is ‘negative equity.’ It means you owe more than you own.

This is a bad place to be.

If your business is in this state, it means you’re losing money.

If your income statement makes it look like you’re making a profit but your balance sheet is telling a different story, then you’re missing something in your expenses.

Things like interest payments on loans are an easy one to miss.

If you have a high-interest loan that keeps increasing your liability, it can easily kill your profits without you even realizing it.

That’s why the balance sheet is a good second look to make sure you don’t miss anything.

A simple check to make sure your balance sheet is right is to remember that assets = liabilities + equity.

Conclusion

I’ve now covered all the accounting basics you should be following day-to-day and month-to-month.

Start with a basic accounting software. It will make your life a lot simpler.

Then, remember ‘cash is king,’ and get a handle on your cash flow. You should be managing this on a weekly basis unless you have a big cash reserve built up.

Next, you need to understand your sales, expenses, and profits. This is your income statement, and lets you know if you’re making money each week, month, or year.

Don’t forget to plan for taxes. Set up your e-commerce site to collect them if you need to. Put the money aside to pay them when you need to.

Finally, build your balance sheet. Or let your accounting software do it for you.

This will let you know how ‘healthy’ your company is long term. It’s an easy way to tell if you have too much debt.

There are lots of additional accounting rules and tricks that can help you save money at tax time.

There are also reporting options that should be considered if you’re trying to get investors or a loan for expansion.

But for running your business, don’t get sucked into the complicated rules. It will just distract you from your critical day job of running your business.

An accountant can help you with everything above and beyond the basics if you need it.

What software do you currently use to handle your accounting needs?

About the Author: Neil Patel is the cofounder of Neil Patel Digital.

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