Now I have two thoughts. You have to create an e-commerce website now this in this article I’ll show you how you can accept the payment on your own website, because if earlier we were using PayPal in PayPal, what happens is when the user or the customer wants to make payment? They have to go to PayPal to make the payment, but today I’ll show you how you can accept payment on your own website.
Okay, so the user can make payment through credit card or debit card on your own website. They don’t have to go to some third party website. First, let’s understand the difference and let’s use this website as a demo. App. Sorry, if you don’t know how to create this ecommerce website, if you are interested in how to create a ecommerce website from scratch you very easily, then there is a link given in the article description below you can follow that link.
I have thought you know in detail, for, for there is a four hour long tutorial you can read that tutorial. You’ll learn everything from scratch: how to create an e-commerce website. Okay, now let me go to the shop page. So, let’s add some product in our card. For example, suppose you want to add this thing this helmet? How are this and click on Add to Cart now, as you can see, we have something in add in our cart.
So let’s click on View cart. So this is the product in our cart. Now, if you want to make payment, what do you do? You click on proceed to checkout and we have this PayPal option over here. So now, let’s see this is the website on which we are nitro, dot, Nisha, calm, and when we want to make payment through PayPal, we select PayPal. We click on proceed to PayPal. Now, as you can see, it has redirected me to paypal.
Com not on my website. Even if I want to make payment through credit card or debit card, I will have to use PayPal. Ok, now I don’t say: PayPal is bad or something like that. Paypal is really really amazing. I personally use it, but the thing is now: oh, this thing doesn’t work. Ok, if you’re creating our e-commerce website, you should you have some better option. That is what I am showing you today.
Ok now, this is what happens when you use PayPal. Now, let’s come back, let’s come back again now, instead of PayPal, you can use stripe okay. Now, when you use stripe, as you can see, if we have the credit card details over here, the user can put in that credit card or debit card details over here. Okay, this is just demo card. Okay, so don’t use this card and they can put all this information over here and click on place order.
Okay, it is taking some time, it is analyzing it. As you can see. Thank you. Your order has been received, so we, the user or the you have already received an order. Okay, the the customer didn’t have to go to some third party website to make the payment now today I’ll show you how you can set up this thing so to do so. Come back to your dashboard now to use this thing first, we need a plug-in called stripe.
So, from the left hand side you will see this plugins how our plugins and click on add new. Now, in the search plug-in the stripe in stripe as STR IPE now, when you do, when you do so, you get many different plugins called stripe. Now the one which you have to install is this one: Moo commerce, stripe payment gateway by mu commerce. Ok, it has got around 300,000 active installs, so this is the one that you have to install so here, you’ll get one button like this install now.
Click on that Install Now button then activate this plug-in. Okay, once you activate this plug-in from the left hand, side how our commerce and click on settings now click on checkout. Now you should see one more option over here called stripe like this one. Here we have stripe. Click on stripe now make sure you take mark this enable stripe and in the title we have credit card or stripe. Now we don’t want this title.
We will just use credit card or debit card. Ok, ok, pay with your credit card wire stripe. So again, we don’t need good, while stripe just type in pay with your credit card or debit card. Now I have enabled test mode because I don’t want to make any real payment. So if you, let me show you how to set this thing. First, go to strike calm and make a free account. It is really easy and very simple to create an account.
I have already done that. As you can see, I have made one hundred and fifty dollars sale. This is obviously test sale. So what I’ll do now? I will go to developers and under developers you have API keys. Now, I’m at present. As I said you I’m using the test mode, I’m not using the live mode. That’s why I am getting this thing over here. So when I click on this, I have publishable key and secret key so copy.
This publishable key from here come back to your website and paste it over here, after that, we have secret key copied from here and paste it over here. Okay, now, after that, I don’t have to do anything, just click on Save Changes and once your website is life, make sure you first activate your account. Okay, how you do that, however, this and click on this link, which says activate to your account and follow the process? Okay, this is only for you know when you are in the production stages and you still want to check whether everything is working, fine or not, but when your website is live, first, activate your account.
I am doing this because I don’t want to make any real payment. Okay, I just want to show you guys so once you do so, you will have this option. Let’s come back, okay, okay, we don’t have anything because we have made a successful payment. Let’s try again, let’s try this. Let’s add this thing to cart. Let’s add this product as well, so we have two products in our cart. Let’s cut this thing when I hover this, as you can see, we have two products.
Let’s click on checkout now, as you can see, it doesn’t say stripe. Now it is saying credit card or debit card. Now we can just enter your debit card details. In fact, this is just a demo card number. You can use this card number. 4. 4. 4. All this for 2 and after that, you can put any month expiry date any month and any year and any CVC number and click on place order. Ok, the order amount was 2834, as you can see over here.
As you can see the total among 2834 pumps, the order is made. We have all these details over here now when you come back to this website and go to your home page. As you can see, my balance has now gone to $ 4,000 and I can see that we have made six successful payments and if you want to see this thing in detail, you can click on developers and click on events. Now you can see the successful payment was made for two thousand eight hundred and thirty four dollars.
Okay, so this is how we accept debit card and credit card payment on your website. I hope this short tutorial was helpful for you guys if it was helpful, then make sure you subscribe to my blog and also click on that Pelican, so that you don’t miss any future articles. If you have any doubt any queries, any questions for me leave them in the comment section below thanks a lot for reading guys see you soon.
Com and welcome to another amazing article in this article, we’ll see the process of choosing the right and the perfect niche for your dropshipping website business. Now, choosing the right niche for your website is very, very crucial in drop shipping business. This is really important and at the same time, it is really difficult as well. Ok, so in this article we’ll try to see how you can select a perfect niche for your website, so this is about some tips and tricks that can help you to select the right niche.
Ok, so let’s get started and before proceeding further make sure you guys subscribe to my blog and also click on that Pelican so that it don’t miss any future articles with that being said, let’s get started, so the first step is doing some initial research. Ok, so we can browse some really popular stores like Amazon, eBay and Aliexpress, and we can see what are the products that are most popular in this week or in this month.
What are the products that are selling a lot and so on? So let me give you three different websites that you can go and you can see a half of how your product, what product you can choose and some ideas about your niche. So the first and the most important one is Aliexpress. So what you can do? Don’t type in Aliexpress, calm type in best-selling taught Aliexpress calm. So once you type in that, you will be redirected to this section now, as you can see over here, we’ll see top-selling products over here, and this is the first one, the tempered glass for iPhone X and, as you can see the price over years, not even $ 1 per pack, it is not per piece, it is per pad and it has sold more than 70-thousand in the last week on just in seven days, it has sold 70 thousands, and you can see some many different products over like this Sami phone.
These bracelets and so on, and these are really selling well like you know. We have 28,000 per week and 25,000 sales per week and so on or if you have decided to go with a certain category. For example, if you have decided to go only with men, category or kids, category baby, category health and beauty category, you can select the product or you can see the product according to your category, for example, here we have health and beauty.
So, let’s click on the this category. Now, if you see or you see the products which are most selling in this category – like I don’t know this girl stuff, all these things. Okay, oh I don’t know all this work, these things at this brush. They do make up with and all this things so nail polish and so on. So you can sell these products. You can see that these perks are really selling well okay, so these are the so once you see these products, you get a better idea.
Okay, fine! So I can sell this. I can get into this niche and so on. Okay, so you can get the idea from this website. You have different categories. This is kids and baby. You have these things, you know you can see, the price is very low and they are selling really well. So this is the first website that you can go to best selling dot, Aliexpress calm, the second website there you can that you can go to amazon.
Com. Slash best sellers: okay: now I am into baby sections, so let’s just go to best seller section, alright, so here we have first, we have toys and games, and you will see these. This is the number one thing under toys and games this USB charger. I guess, and we have some different games than here – electronics, and these are the different things that are selling most in this category – camera article games, whatever category you want to again, if you want to go to baby’s category, you can select from here the baby category And here you can see these things are really selling well, for example, if you cou this is bottlebrush and it is selling at four dollars.
So you can select these things if you’re going into baby category, you can select these things like this baby banana infant training, toothbrush and so on. Now there are many different products. This will give you a very no nice idea about what you can choose. What products you want to sell and whether, if you want to sell the baby category, whether there are many different products available or not, so that will give you a very good idea.
Okay, so this was the second website. The third website is ebay.Com. Slash deals so here you will see the top selling products, the top selling deals on ebay again many different products over here you can see the featured deals. You can see the trending deals that are going. You can see the category or the tech category fashion, category home-and-garden sports category and other categories; okay, so let’s click on this fashion, category and under fashion category, because fashion category is a very big category.
So you can’t you can’t just you know, focus on one fashion. Category, that is a very big category drop shipping business is all about selecting a niche and going as narrow as possible. Okay, so under fashion you can go for reades. Okay, so you will see these different reades are really selling well. So you get a better idea about what kind of reades to sell and so on, okay, so this was the initial research.
This is going to be your first step. Okay, to do some initial research. There are many more websites and many more places to go that you can search for, but these are the top three places that you can go and see. What are the different products available? You’ll get a better idea about your niche okay. Now this was the first step initial search. Now, let’s go to the next step. Now next step we have to see is whether this product is trending or not.
Whether people are looking for this product on internet or not so the best place to see that is google.Com, slash trends or you can type in trends. Com strength start google.Com. Okay, when you do so you’ll be landed on this page now, once you have selected some product from your, for example, you have selected something from here, then you can see and search that product over here to see whether the product which you have selected is trending Or not whether people are looking for all that product on the internet or not, for example, we can search for something like let’s search for cat, just let’s first search for cat okay, now, as you can see, it is a very stable trend.
Okay, we don’t see any town, many any high. Now this is for past 12 months now we can see past five years. So, let’s see now, if you see past five years also, that trend is very, you know it’s just table, so we what you can do. We can just change this thing and we can go into more narrow niche, so we can select like your cat pajamas. Maybe let’s say select this one now, as you can see, this is a better one.
Okay, in five years you can see there is some hike. Oh okay, in this year we see some hike, so you can see the trends whether these products are training or not, and you can also see the category the country which is interested in this product. Okay, so suppose you are selling to you’re planning to you, know, sell all the care products like cat, pajamas cat cap and all those different cat, hoodie and so on.
So you can target this country here. You see the number one country searching for these kind of thing is UK, so you can target UK okay and you see some related topic so you’re like grumpy cat shirt, clothing under cat okay. Here we have Reis related queries and so on just make sure whatever you’re selecting whatever product you have selected, you see a nice stable thing or your stable trend or a upward trend.
Don’t select a product that is showing a downward trend. Okay, we don’t want to do that, okay, so the next step. The first step was initial research. First, do some research and select a product and the second step? What was this one? Whatever product? You are selected in the first step, search for the trend, search, whether that product is trending, whether the product is going upwards or it is gone, doing going downwards or it is a stable product.
Okay. Now, let’s move on to the third step now in the third step, we have to see the competition. Of course, it is almost impossible to find a popular niche with a good trend, but without competition, so before launching Yahoo dropshipping, where a website store, it is strongly recommended that you search for similar web stores on the Internet. If you find several popular websites offering the same products, especially with good prices with competitive prices, you should probably think about finding another niche and product which are generally harder to find.
Obviously, there is no point in creating another generic shoes, car parts or gardening stores. It is better to take a narrow niche and try to be creative. There are many different reasons or many different benefits. You can see also going narrow to select a narrow niche. The first is when you, when you narrow your niche, you get a better understanding about what you’re going to sell. Okay. The second thing is that it’s easier to rank higher in search engines results for research items, because if your website is only about particular thing like we have seen in the previous examples, cat necklace cat pajamas cat shirts, then it is very easy or not very easy.
But a competitor comparatively more easy for you to rank higher in you know, search results, then the third one is due to your speciality. People will be ready to come to you again and again, because you’re the one in their mind: okay, so because you’re pro your website, your stool is all surrounding all this cat thing. Whoever loves this cat thing. They will remember your website, okay, so this website was good.
It was selling all the products that I am interested in and they will remember your website for a long time. It is really helpful. The fourth thing is that it is always easier to focus on one audience and plan your marketing strategy. Okay, so you can its. It explains the point that you have a very limited audience and you can focus on them and you can plan your marketing strategy accordingly. Now the fourth step is to see whether the product that your that you have selected is in stock or not whether the product that you have selected has different varieties or not, okay, because we don’t want to end up selling only cat caps.
Ok, our website selling only cat caps. That would be not a very good idea. We want to, I know, expand that a bit okay. So we suppose we have selected this cat or maybe some different thing like sonic people like sonic, so now, sonic cap, sonic curve, short sonic, hoodies and so on. So once you have selected that product you can go to Aliexpress Kong, because that is the most famous strong shaking website, okay, and by the way, if you want to learn how to create a drop shipping website step-by-step, you can see a link in the article description Below click on that link, there is our three hours long article step-by-step.
You can create your own drop shipping website from scratch. Okay, so suppose you have selected some product category, what you can do you can come to Aliexpress and search for that, for example, let’s search for cat – and if you see over here, the cat category has around 2 million results, which is a very good thing, which Means that this thing has a lot of products: okay, we have different cat styling, your cat eyeglass, I glasses cat toy cat, bad cat, t-shirt and so on.
Cat ring cat socks. So there is a lot of variety and lot of products available for this particular niche or this particular category. So this is another step to check the stock to check the results to check the you know: different varieties and different products available. Now, once you have checked the different stocks available after that, what we can do, we have to compare the price because see whatever price.
Whatever product you are going to sell, that product is probably you know, it will be available on maybe Amazon and so on. So you have to see the price if the product which is which you know importing from Aliexpress is $ 10 and Amazon is also selling that product on $ 10. Then why will anyone come to your website to purchase this same product for the same price, so that is not going to do so? What we have to do we have to select for we have to now.
The next step is to see the price difference. Okay, so first, let’s go to Amazon and let’s search for something called cat necklace. Okay. Now, if you see oh, you are there many cat necklaces available and the price you can see: 26 dollars $ 24. Okay and these things are also having no decent ratings. So our product that you are going to search on Aliexpress has to be honest at a lower price. So let’s come over here, let’s search for cat necklace again all right! So if you see over here, we have a better necklaces over here.
Okay and the price is also so much diff. In fact, if you see this one now, this is the exact thing that we’ve searched all year. Okay, as you can see, this is the exact necklace. This is $ 26 and you’re. Getting this thing on Aliexpress for around $ 2? Okay, so this is a very good sign that okay, fine, so you can sell this product easily for 1020 dollars, okay, because it is selling for $ 26 on Amazon.
You can easily sell this for $ 15. On your website, so you’re getting a very nice marching on this product, so the next step that this step in this type you have to select, and you have to search for the pricing. The pricing of your product has to be, you know, very competitive with Amazon, because people don’t want to go to Amazon and see okay, I am getting the same product at a lower price because at the end of the day, people are seeing the price okay.
So this is also very crucial step now. The last step is to see the Keyword planner. So what you can do you can open a new tab and type in keyword. Planner, okay, go to Google type in keyword planner. You will see this. This link add word, link, advert or google.Com click on that link and, let’s start using keyword, planner all right guys. Now, as you can see, this is how it will look and obviously first it will ask you to create a website or to create an account on Adwords.
So you can do that easily within few minutes. I have already done that. So if you go to this thing here, you’ll see this go to link click on, go to and search for keyword. Planner over here you’ll see this keyword, planner click on keyword planner. Now, here you have to enter that keyword so that you can see what is the monthly search? What is the monthly number of people who are searching on Google for this product, for example, if you search for cat? Obviously this is a very huge, very common keyword, so it will have a lot.
As you can see, it is around 1 million to 10 million people are monthly searching for you know cat kind of thing, and if you go in more detail like let select cat, maybe necklace, let’s see cat Nicholas, let’s go to get results. Okay. Now, as you can see, around ten thousand people are searching for this produc product cat necklace cat jewelry cash pendant. Then you have different things over here.
Okay, so these this is the number of people you can see. The competition is quite high over here. You can see the paid over here all these things. Okay, so, basically, here you have to see the number of people that are searching for your product and that should be a decent amount of people. Okay, a decent amount of people should be looking for your product. On Google, okay now, obviously there is a better way to market your product.
People are really running good and they are getting a very better and positive results on Facebook, marketing, Facebook, strategic marketing. If I get a chance, I may create a article on how to you know, run different Facebook ad campaigns and how to target people for your drop shipping business. If I get a time in the future, I will try to create a article on that. Okay, but here you can see the what are the amount of people, monthly search, competition and the price for this one.
Okay, guys. I think this is it for this article and there could be many more tips and tricks like don’t try to sell products like glass and so on, for because your product is ultimately getting imported from China and you don’t want any. You know product like that. That will get you into problem. Okay, so product is getting imported from China to maybe India, UK and that product. If it is a glass thing glass, there very high chance that they’re very high chances that it may get broken and so on, and also try to avoid products like knife and so on, because in custom you might see some problem.
Okay, because safer knife is imported from China to some country and I’ve. That country has some rules against that. Then you could be a problem. You could be in a problem: okay, so avoid using these kind of product on on your drop shipping business website. Okay, alright guys, so this is it for this article. I hope you guys find this article helpful hope this tips and tricks helped you guys to search your perfect niche.
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You live from the show floor at hosting con 2016 in the Big Easy of New Orleans Louisiana, and I’m here with mr. Jim O’Hara. Jim is the president of Ecuador, okay, so how is the show going for you? Well so far, it’s going very well as always, there’s great content in all the sessions and it’s obviously all the right people and the hosting business are here very good.
So lots of networking then lots of networking morning noon and night outstanding. So you know I sought you guys out because you have a tiki tent of sorts in in your booth and it’s exceedingly inviting. So that’s what brought me to you, but so are for our viewers that don’t already know about equid. Why don’t you tell us a little bit about what you do yeah well, first of all, thanks for coming by you got it and the reason we have the surf theme.
Yes, each theme in our booth is that we’re based in San Diego California and nice they’re right here. It is very nice and we’re two blocks away from the beach at our office, but also gives us the opportunity to kind of show a little bit about what we do as a business. And the idea is that our booth is a surf shop and the surf shop, like a lot of small business, could have a physical storefront as well as an online store and also can sell in person on the go anywhere on the beach for exam.
I love it. I absolutely love it and equity is an e-commerce solution that plugs into point-of-sale systems at the physical store and also ties into other, like like a square point-of-sale system, but also to the square reader that you can plug into your smartphone and sell from anywhere in person. As well, that’s all synchronized with your online site. So your inventory, your customer information, your product information is always synchronized and where the rubber meets the road in sales, that’s fantastic, exactly sell anywhere anytime.
That is really great. So what is the latest and greatest coming out of the newsroom over there adequate? Well, just that is and multi-blog commerce is, what do they call it, but consumers want to buy anywhere anytime and kind of in the overworld. Everybody expects to have instantaneous access to whatever product they want and in our case we support small businesses. So we give small businesses the ability to have kind of big retailer reach so brother, it’s in their store, whether it’s on line at their online store or anywhere on the go.
A small business now can have this functionality like a target or walmart and have access give consumers access any time to buy their products anywhere fantastic. That is really really cool. Jim. Thank you very much for joining us thanks for your time. I appreciate it. You got it and thank you, viewers for reading JSA TV, we’ll see you soon.
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So there are tools available to find appropriate keywords. There’s a lot of different tools online that you can use. Google has what’s called their keyword planner. It’s right in Google’s under tools and settings here you come over here to planning and you can use the keyword planner and you can find keyword and AD group ideas.
You can get suggested budgets and you can find you know, search volume and forecast as well. So a lot of times we’ll be searching for a specific keyword or we’ll think. Oh, look. This keywords going to generates a lot of results. It gets a lot of activity, but then later we find out like the search volume, there’s some very low. So you can get all this information using the Google Keyword, planner right under tools and settings here.
So, let’s review the four targeted keyword, matching options to control which queries trigger hats. There’s four keyword match types that are important for you to really understand. If you don’t understand the different types of keyword match types, then you will burn that budget. I’m telling you you will lose money, I’ve seen people, you know waste tens of thousands of dollars just because you know they didn’t understand the difference between broad match and exact match.
These headlines, like a pro and get real results and more sales and we’re Starting right now, hey I’m J.R. Fisher. If you haven’t Already subscribed to my blog: do so right now go down there and hit that Subscribe button and don’t forget, you want to smash that Bell button and you Want to turn on all notifications, if you do that, I can tell you every single time: I do a new article, hey I’m J.
R. Fisher and on this blog all we do is talk. About starting running and growing your online business, now I’ve been selling Online since 2009 and I’ve sold millions of dollars worth of products, both Physical and digital – and I share with you all those techniques on this blog So you can get real results too. At the end of this article, I’m actually going to Give you a course it’s an e-commerce course and it’s a $ 97 course, but you can Get it absolutely free for a limited time, I’ll, put a link in the description See and grab that now, let’s talk about these headline things on your sales: Pages they’re super super important.
If you don’t do this right, if you don’t get This right, you don’t make any sales, but if you get it right, you can make a lot. Of sales and a lot of money, let’s get started, Now the one thing I do want to share with you is: we use a landing page. Builder, that is built within Kartra Kartra is our email provider, our Membership site our help desk site, it’s everything to us and if you’re Interested in a software like that they can do all this and help you make these Landing pages, I’m going to put a link in the description below look for the Kartra link and when you click on that link, it will take you to a article.
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A headline can change your results: 10 to 30 percent, with just a simple headline: Change now, if you think about that, that’s a lot more sales, a lot more money, In your pocket so headlines are super super important and here’s. The cool Thing about changing your headline, it’s easy! It takes no time whatsoever to Actually, change a headline on a landing page. It’s one of the simplest things you Can do it doesn’t require any new design, it doesn’t require colors or images or Anything it’s just a headline.
Here’s the cool thing about headlines. It’s better! To copy then to create now, why do I say that? Well, because a lot of headlines can Be put into certain categories and they just seem to work an Israeli research Team actually took 200 of the top headlines and they found out that they All fell within about 6 different categories. So, if you do your headlines, And you put them into one of these categories: you’re likely to succeed now.
This is really good news for you, because you can basically take the same headline. That’s out there and just rework it a little bit and you could use it for your Business, you don’t have to come up with any new ideas or really creative ways to Do stuff you can just use what’s been working for years and years and years, Now, if you’re looking to kind of get unstuck, when your headlines, here’s five Places you can do it okay, so here’s the five basic proven conversion boosting Headline formulas: the first one is a testimonial okay, so you want to steal.
The perfect headline directly from your customers – mouth, that’s the best headline. Of all, is your customers, testimonial people believe in testimonials more than Any other thing that you could put on a page, the next one is the cliffhanger. You Want to give them a teaser, so you want to hold back the rest of the story to Get them to click, that’s a great headline, and it makes them want to Complete what they’ve already started number three is a value proposition here.
Is where you’re going to highlight how you uniquely solve a difficult customer Pain point, so the best thing to do is list out all the different pain points. That you’re going to have a whole bunch of headlines based on Those number four is called a listicle and basically it’s a hat or secret or a Promise of a simplistic way to fix things in a chaotic world and of course, The last one, we all know we all love, and that is the how-to.
So this get your Customers from point A to point B, with a simple step by step process: you’re Showing them how to complete how to do something: how to achieve something? How To headlines have been around for years and years, so let’s talk about each one: Individually, first off the first one is a testimonial and basically, as a Testimonial is just kind of reverse engineering what we already know so, if We see somebody else using a product and they’re getting results on it.
We tend to Attach our emotions to that particular person and how they got these results. And if we see several people got good results from a product, we’re much more Likely to buy it than anything else now. You’ve probably seen this in TV ads Newspaper ads radio ads, they almost always have a testimonial. If Somebody who’s used that product and got the results that you want to get. Okay, Here’s a good example right here: this is speaking to people suffering from Alcohol or substance abuse, who may not exactly want to admit equate yet: okay, Did rather be difficult, so instead joanna browsed through customer reviews, On amazon to finally land on the perfect headline variation, they switched gears From your addiction ends here to the new headline, if you think you need rehab and You do they saw 400 % more clicks with 20 %.
More leaves by changing that one Headline now we do see the most popular headlines over and over again and one of The first two words that works in most headlines is in this cliffhanger formula: Where it says this is this: is legion tably that something else is coming and If I say this is how or this is when – or this is what people are going to want to, Read that sentence a little bit further to find out what’s going on in to Complete that cliffhanger in their mind, okay, for example, here’s one of my Favorites right here, this stunning birth photo captures something that occurs in Less than one in 80,000 births, oh my gosh, the best headlines tend to be The most specific, when heightens with the realism and intrigue incorporating Body language like stunning birth photo and occurs in less than helps, reinforce.
The element of surprise, which is the perfect pattern interruption to halt Scanning multitasking or the readers from looking at other things, this also Further incorporates the quantitative numbers which we’ll explore more in Detail in the next section less than one in 80,000, my god that makes the headline Incredibly, irresistible now piggybacking on successful brands instantly. Add Credibility to the headline, while at the same time creating an open loop in the Back of your mind, that needs to find out how to emulate these successful brands.
Now we infuse the headline with curiosity rather than over by me. Language too many marketers rush into the sale in the headline before they’ve Generated sufficient reader interest, so the original headline here wasn’t bad Okay, improve your traffic and rankings with An SCO Moz probe membership, not bad. That was the old headline, but check out the New design headline right here with eBay, Disney and Marriott needed SEO help Here’s what they do, okay, so now what we’ve done is we’ve kind of fused, our Company with a big brand and if the big brands are doing it, maybe we should do It too, the next one, is the value proposition.
Now it could be something That really fixes a big thing in somebody’s life like losing money or Gaining money – or it could be a simple thing in their life like feeling better About themselves, the real trick is trying to figure out What the biggest problems and people’s lives are and you providing a product or Service that can make it quicker, better, faster or easier for them to fix that Problem now this isn’t a new thing.
This has been done for years and years and Years, remember, although these arguably most famous and successful headline, I Love this at 60 miles an hour, the loudest noise in this new rolls-royce Comes from the electric clock: here’s an example right here of six different Pay-Per-Click headlines for a dentist marketing experience landed on one Winner that resulted in a seventy two point: seven, six, lift and conversion rate Dental plans for eight dollars and 33 cents a month that was short and to the Point and at the end of it it said acceptance guaranteed so that pretty Much covered all the problems that somebody would have another way of doing.
This is to stick out from all your competition, ignore the negatives and Actually go for the positive points. This is a great example of an ad here. It has A little fear in here, but it also says, hey: we can help you out. Breast cancer Screening, only 15 % of women live five plus years with late detection, get Screened so it’s quick and to the point headline formula number four: the Listicle people love lists.
If you could put a list in a headline and draw in Their attention you’ll definitely get clicks. By doing this particular method. Here’s a perfect example of a listicle that uses this particular technique from The Motley Fool in this particular one right here: they actually just call it Out middle-class millionaire makers, three stocks Wall, Street’s Too, rich to notice now, if you notice a lot of these lists that work out really Well or odd numbers, I’ve noticed that when I’m optimizing headlines and I’ll Put it into a headline optimizer, it’s the odd numbers that come up as Something that works, whether it’s three five, seven, nine eleven all those numbers Seem to work really well and they draw in people’s attention and it makes them Want to here’s an example right here: five Critical questions that will change your financial future, three stocks that will Help you retire rich and secure your future with nine rock-solid dividend.
Stocks, all of those use that odd number type of method, according to a study that Was conducted by Outbrain, they figured out that odd number listicles outperform Even number ones by as much as 20 %, also something you may not have noticed, but Having a colon in a headline can boost conversions by as much as nine percent Just adding a colon in the last headline formula number five is the how-to type Of headline how to headlines, adding how-to in front Of your headline can boost your conversions by as much as 17 %.
Now you Don’t have to take this too literally, you can actually remove the how to check Out these headlines here, number one businesses grow faster online number: two Online advertising that works number three get found faster number four Create a web page for your business: these are very simple type of headlines. But they work very well even with the help, but you could add that in there Here’s another example right here: control passionate about betting.
We are Variation make more money on your bets, get free betting tips, variation number Two stop losing money on your bets, get daily betting tips. Now these two Variations emphasize different things, the first is a benefit and the second is Less than version, but both or how to headline formats that still outperform The control variant by as much as 41 % and 11 % respectively, so you can see in All these headlines and all these types of headlines how all these changes can Make a major difference in your sales and profitability.
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So clearly, things are going in the right direction. People are getting verified and this is in fact working so in just a second we’re going to dive into my computer. So I could walk you through the entire process on how to work on your verification and in addition to that, if you’re new to the blog welcome be sure to hit that subscribe button for daily content. Just like this article you’re reading right here.
So without any further ado, let’s go ahead and get started and walk you guys through exactly how to get started with verifying your Instagram account for 100 % free. So, as you can see, we are now inside of my computer and I’m going to walk you through how to get this verification alright. So the process is very, very simple, believe it or not, and on this screen right here, I’m going to pop up a little screen recording on how you can actually go through it inside of your settings in about 30 seconds or less and by the way, if You’re not following me yet make sure you go ahead and follow me at Toni mast official for some more content from yours truly but simply know.
If you go to your settings and then you scroll down to request verification and after pressing that you’re going to want to fill out, that form where you go ahead and enter your name and also a little bit about what your brand and what your account is About and filling in that proper category, so they know exactly what kind of verification you are applying for, in addition to a copy of your photo ID that will match your name now.
What is going to make sure that you actually get that Instagram blue tick and actually get it verified? Now, there’s a few general qualifications out there that instagrams going to be looking for because they don’t necessarily want to give everyone a verification check mark next, our name on Instagram because out simply dilute the purpose of it now. Instagram has this feature the verified? That’s actually you and that it’s not some fake account or someone trying to impersonate you or someone trying to scam someone, especially in the business realm.
So this blue tick is very, very important and can actually add a lot of value to your business. So with that being said, we want to go ahead and give us a shot. Now it’s not a hundred percent given that you’re going to actually get verified by filling out this application, so the general qualifications, first and foremost you’re going to want to have a significant amount of followers. If you don’t have any presence on Instagram, there’s going to be very little likelihood that you’ll actually get that verification, because if they started giving you a verification, blue ticks on everyone’s usernames, it’s really going to take away from the meaning of that all right.
So ideally you’re going to want to have at least twenty five or twenty thousand followers to try and get verified now. Yes, many people do not have that up with consistent content and stuff I’m going to touch on in a future article I’ll show you how to build out that viral content strategy to actually work your way to a larger following on Instagram, okay. So beyond having that significant amount of followers on Instagram, that’s not the only thing that necessarily cuts it you’re going to want to have a strong presence on other platforms outside of Instagram.
Now this could be YouTube. This could be twitch. This could be Facebook, whatever it may be. You’re also going to want to have these linked in your description and a little bit of a blurb about what you do inside of your bio, so that linking your description is very, very valuable when it comes to reassuring Instagram that you’re someone that deserves to be Verified on their platform, okay, in addition to that, something that can also help you and be in you know your corner to help you get that verification is publication or press coverage if you’re featured and on a specific website or a magazine, anything of the sort.
Your brand, being featured inside of a publication of some sort, is going to help you go ahead and get on Instagram side to go ahead and give you that blue tick. So with that, the bigger brand presence that you have overall, the easier is going to be to get verified as simple as that, the more you have in your corner, the better chances you’re going to get verified, and these are just a few general qualifications.
Another thing Instagram is typically going to look for is existing spoof or impersonating accounts of you or your brand that are already out there on the platform. So if there are people trying to take your username with maybe a period or an underscore in there and they’re trying to come off as your brand or your personal self, then instagrams going to be looking for that as well. Something that could work to your advantage is, if you actually have a copyright or trademark for your own business.
So, if someone’s trying to impersonate your business, for example, providing that and filling out this form that I’m going to show you guys on my screen right now is reporting to Instagram and having something on file that is also working or you such as you know, proof Of a trademark or proof of a copyright or concept that someone may have taken from you, so the intellectual property Instagram is not the best.
With these response rates, it is a free platform and it is not easy to go ahead and get a hold of them or going to Instagram representative. That’s going to really dive in there and do the hard work for you to make sure you’re in the right position. But having those other qualifications that we talked before such a significant amount of followers, strong presence on other platforms and even featured in publications or press coverage is going to work to your advantage.
So that’s something that you definitely want to have and if you don’t have it already start hustling and try your best to get out there as much as possible. So with that being said, entering your complaint or filing a report to Instagram is something that can also help you in either retaining a loss. Username, that’s someone maybe hacked you someones, trying to impersonate you and also something on file that will help you move in the right direction of getting verified, because it’s clear that people are trying to impersonate you or your brand or your business.
So with that being said, go ahead and drop a comment down below. Let me know if you guys actually get verified, it’s not the easiest process or not accepting everyone right now. It’s really tough to go ahead and get accepted, but having some of these qualifications and working on these qualifications will definitely help you for sure. So if you have that brand presence inside and outside of Instagram, it’s going to help your likelihood to actually get verified.
So go ahead, fill out your application, just like the process. I showed you before I’m going to show it again right here on my screen, the screen recording on exactly how to submit your application to get verified on Instagram, and you can literally do this right now takes you less than 30 seconds. So why not give it a shot, even if it’s not the best likelihood that you’ll actually get verified, it is definitely worth a shot if you’re in that reasonable range and could actually use that blue tick on your account.
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But that’s okay, and this is because this is a problem that I recently in the last couple of weeks really I have been dealing with and I am now going to show you behind the scenes of what transpired with these ads.
How much I spent on advertising a couple of different things and just to give you an idea of what it takes, sometimes to really make things happen, so let’s go back to 1st of May June 26. Alright. So between these two accounts, it’s almost fifteen thousand dollars. I spent on advertising this brought back in the return just over total over almost twenty thousand dollars. Okay – and this is from the first of May, until today, 26 June, his accounts actually got flagged on Facebook before they turn off the payment method.
So I can’t pay these bills anymore to use these accounts, so I’m working with Facebook to get these bills reactivated. These are payment methods reactivated, because Facebook has a security measure to disable your payment method. So when you’re trying to pay your bills, see how it says payment method declined, my credit card was maxed. I had to pay paid my bill off, so I can go ahead and make the next payment, but it now, when I click on, add new payment method.
It does not allow me to add a payment. Such payments disable we temporarily temporarily disable the Facebook payments. Please contact us to turn it back on so they’re, going to give you a little form that you got ta fill out and we’ll go through this form. Real quick and just so you guys, can see y’all know that we’ll go on this account lifetime. You can see where it’s bent over the lifetime so on this one, seven thousand three hundred sixty eight dollars on this account on this one campaign alone brought in foreign sales at a product that was around $ 30.
So if you do the math on that, you can see what that what that is about – and this one campaign was three thousand dollars. Okay, this one campaign a little a few thousand dollars, so this is a couple of different things cumulative. This is a winning campaign that I was running. This campaign was for my music. I spent fourteen hundred and twenty dollars building that up got 1.2 million engagements on that which is pretty cool.
We’ll talk about that in another article cuz, that’s some stuff! I want to share with you guys on how to get exposure. We’re going to talk about that. Okay, I mean you guys are going to see how I’m building up my like band and my music brand, and I’m going to share that with you. In other articles. This is mainly just to show you how to get your accounts. Reactivated after they’ve been deactivated um.
One thing to note: if Facebook ever Flags your account for policy violations, though it’s going to have a notice here. If it’s for policy violations nine times out of ten they’re, not going to you turn your account back on, you have to get into that account and I’ll show you how to there’s millions of different ways. Don’t freak out, don’t get married to it. It’s not as easy as just opening a new Facebook account, especially now, since all of this issue that Facebook had with privacy data and all that kind of stuff recently came up.
So it’s going to be a little more challenging, but we’ll walk I’ll, walk you through the steps and as long as you follow these guidelines, you should be able to be successful and avoid these pitfalls. But I’m sharing this with you, because this is challenges that I’ve had. So, let’s go to that forum, and this is the former hair disable payments and ads manager and we’ll just go through it step-by-step.
If you believe your app account has been disabled by mistake, please provide us more information, so we can investigate this issue. Is this your ad account? Always yes, advertiser ad account choose the ad account that you want all right, you’re going to have one probably or two and we’ll talk about that in a little more than other articles, the the type of payment method paper Facebook does accept paypal, because PayPal is one Of that Facebook’s first founding investors, Peter Thiel, gave Mark Zuckerberg half a million dollars to start Facebook.
So that’s why they accept that’s one of the muses why they accept paypal, our credit card, if you either or you can, if we’re, if you’re using both for payments, you can check both boxes, I’m going to go with credit card, because that’s what I use are You, the owner of the financial and trade off, I always yes, who’s, the owner of the financial instrument I file very redundant but always say me, yes, owners first and last name.
It’s always going to be your first and last name. Okay, it’s always going to be yours. Owner’s email address always use the email address that is associated with the Facebook account that you’re signed into okay. Briefly, this describe why you’re, using their payment method, isn’t that retarded for the Nasdaq the third time about that question. So I just say: I’m using my own: have you tried to purchase apps on Facebook? Yes, please provide a brief explanation of your current ad campaign.
I am building up today. You might want to take notes on this, because this is what I tell them. This always works. I’m building up fans on my fan page to drive traffic to my e-commerce store period. That’s it! That’s all you need to put in that block. You can. You know vibrate on it, some more if you want, but that’s all I ever put on there and that’s usually works. Have you ever noticed? Have you noticed any irregular spend nope? Is the current location different from the billing country? No, your current location, if you’re, whatever country you’re in I’m in the United States, so it’s going to be United States billing, their payment billing method country, I’m in the United States to always make sure those two match.
If you’re using PayPal, it should be a problem. It’s a credit card same deal just make sure that they match these countries are different. Please explain why they are both the same and then they need a an ID of. Sometimes I use it usually in my passport. I upload my passport on here boom. I send that request in and that’s it that’s how you put your disable, add account request into Facebook and you give them a day or two, and usually they were they.
They they take a few hours honestly, sometimes to respond depending on what’s going on, they might respond within a few minutes and actually turn your your your payment payment manager back on. Sometimes it takes a few days. Sometimes they never respond. To always remember that you got to come back and do this. Okay, on your accounts now. The thing I want you to I want you to remember also is you’re the boss, okay you’re your own CEO.
So this is something that you have to take: control of. Every day, this has to be something on your list of priorities. What is getting in to your ads and looking at your ads every day, I’ve been running ads on Facebook since 2009. When I that’s, when I first started running ads on Facebook, I’ve been I’ve been running ads on Facebook for Shopify August September 11th will be three years since I’ve been primarily running ads for Shopify.
I’ve run ads for a host of different businesses, different ideas, different things and I hope to share some of these things that I’ve learned with you guys in this group. I know this is mainly about e-commerce, but I hope to actually be able to to explain to you how you can take this advertising information and shift it to anything that you want to do and allow you to be able to. You know have control of your income grow a successful business, take your own idea and take your idea and actually have your idea in making you money without having to go and slave working, for you know an hourly wage, so thanks for reading.
I hope this really helps if you guys know anybody that wants to learn how to do Shopify, we’re already at max for our beta testers for this group, meaning anybody else that wants to join this group they’re going to have to go through a sales page. There’s going to be an entry ticket, it’s going to be very low, mainly for a monthly subscription, really really low, because I want to do that. I want anybody to join, to really pay attention to the information and if sometimes you give people information for free and they don’t really pay any attention, so if they pay, if they pay for it, I I think they’re going to they’re going to better focus on The information – and it allows me to be able to do more for the group – you know, post, live events because I’m going to be putting this funds towards renting a hotel room.
You know help-help the members that come to meet with people in person to help them grow. Their accounts help people advertising it’s kind of like starting a fund to really help people that are in that really want to learn this and breakthrough to be able to do that. So we can all help each other grow, I’m willing to teach this stuff, and anybody. That’s really struggling that wants to learn and wants to take control, don’t be shy.
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I also want to talk about what kind of traffic you can expect to get for a number one ranking in Google and also where you really should be looking for the majority of your traffic. It does probably not where you think so, as you can see here, I’ve got the the keyword tool page open and we’re going to go ahead and use coffee mugs for this.
For this demo before you do run any queries I suggest clicking. This only show ideas closely related to my search terms, box it’ll, give you much better results out of the gates and I like to search by local monthly search volume to begin with so real briefly, we’ve got all the keywords here. Obviously the competition in the Google ad network lets you know how many people are bidding for this keyword, the global monthly searches and the local monthly searches.
If you’re doing this for e-commerce, you’ll want to focus on the local monthly searches, those will be much more applicable. So the most important thing to understand, and probably the biggest mistake people make when using the keyword tool, is not understanding how match the different match types work and, as you can see, there’s three different types of matches: broad exact and phrase and the keyword tool defaults To broad, so broad match, like the name implies, is going to include pretty much anything related to your search terms, so for coffee mugs.
If somebody typed in what type of coffee should I put into my mugs, that would pop up, you know ignoring the fact. It’s a ridiculous search to begin with, but the two words don’t have to be next to each other. You know the order isn’t as important. I think it might, even if mugs was for some coffee was there that might show up as well. So it’s really going to give you a huge variety of different searches.
So broad, isn’t quite is isn’t real. Accurate. A phrase is much better and phrases going to only return, search, queries that use the phrase. Coffee mugs in that order. It’ll still return some extra things and some extra queries. So, for example, if someone typed in where, where can I buy coffee, mug or I hate coffee, mugs or my wife keeps hitting me with coffee mugs, you know any of those would pop up under you know.
Under phrase match, but it is a little more accurate, but but the best of all these is going to be exact match. An exact match like the name. A prize is only going to is only going to show search, queries or report search volume for the exact search, coffee mugs, and this is going to be usually what what I use and what I recommend using when you’re doing research, because it’s going to filter out A lot of that extraneous information, so we can see down here now: coffee, mugs, we’ve got you know: 12,000 local monthly searches and which is great.
So you might be thinking: oh, hey, 12,000, local monthly searches. If I’m number one for Google I’m going to get. You know I’m going to get almost all of those and as wonderful as that would be that’s just not the case, and the reason is because Google’s gotten more aggressive recently with their advertising here, I’ve got the the Google listings for coffee mugs and you can see Zazzle is, is the number one organic listing or than the number one non paid listing that Google at Google displays, but above them, they’ve got three ads here and you’ve also got this big side bar on the right with a bunch of pictures and paid advertisements, and So there’s a lot of you know, there’s a lot of stuff competing for that number.
One spot that’s paid advertisement, and I can tell you, based on a number of keywords, that my business is ranked number one for that. Based on the results, Google will show you in the keyword tool. You can. Probably you can you can plan on getting about thirty percent of the volume if you rank, if you have a number one ranking and that that’s a little squishy, it could range anywhere from thirty to fifty percent.
But 30 percent tends to be much to be much more accurate in my experience so out of 12,000 local monthly searches. If you have the number one ranking that Zazzle site, it’s probably only seeing four thousand people a month for this. So maybe you don’t just a few over. You know. Maybe one hundred twenty hundred thirty people a day which can be a little a little little depressing, but the good news is you’re not going to get the majority of your traffic from this.
This number one money term is what I refer to it. As you know, kind of your route term, where, where you’re going to get probably 80 to 90 percent of your traffic, is in the long tail of variations of that term. So, for example, we’ve got coffee mugs here, but listed below that. The second second highest volume query is personalized coffee, mugs with 3600 custom, coffee, mugs, travel, coffee, mugs, funny coffee mugs, and these are what I refer to as long tail variations or long tail keywords and they’re.
Just the root keyword, obviously with some additional modifiers on there and the thing that’s great about these long tail keywords is: is one they’re easier to rank for because not as many people are going after them and two they usually convert at a much higher rate than Kind of your primary primary keyword, because they’re more specific and if you serve up a page, that’s optimized for for that term, whether it’s travel, coffee, mug or you know, personalized coffee, mug you’ll be able to get a much higher conversion rate on there.
So this is where you’re going to get 80 to 90 % of your of your your traffic and when you’re researching a niche, be looking for lots of these variations in this coffee mug example. You know, we’ve got you know almost a dozen here with with more than 500 500 search terms, maybe more than that. So look for lots of variations in the long tail and also look for the search, the search phone. You want to make sure that it’s you’re always going to have it drop off.
You’re, never going to have or very infrequently are you’re going to have the long to variations have as much volume as your money or route keyword. But you want to see once you do get into those long to variations. They don’t drop off to significantly, and here there’s you know four coffee, mugs, it’s pretty decent you’ve got thirty. Six hundred twenty-nine hundred you know you’ve got about all looks like six or seven they’re in the thousand range and then we’ve got another dozen.
Probably you know in the four hundred to a thousand range, which is what I would call a deep niche. So that’s that’s a really encouraging sign. So let’s look at a different example: fishfinders I’ll sort, these by local monthly search volume, again we’re on exact match here and you can see fishfinders. It has about 2,400 exact matches per month and then we’ve got. We’ve got a few variations: we’ve got Eagle, fishfinders L’Orange fishfinders hummingbird fishfinders, but you know really only a couple in the just there’s three they’re in the thousand range and then we drop way off to three hundred and two hundred and by the time where a dozen Down or in the 100’s or even you know, ten down around the 100’s.
So this isn’t to say this mark would be awful, but I would I’d be a little leery of the fact that it’s not a deep market, there’s, not a lot of longtail variations, and so, instead of maybe getting you know, you know 80 to 90 % of Your ear keyword, traffic from longtail variations – this might be something where maybe it’s more like 65 to 75 percent. Again, these are ballpark numbers, but you do want to look look for those longtail variations, they’re, indicative of of good markets getting into and and indicative of, the possibility of a lot of your traffic coming from those longtail variations.
So three key takeaways for this article. The first is make sure you’re using phrase or even better exact match to get more precise results when you use the keyword tool. Secondly, just remember that when you are looking at those those money term volumes that you’re only going to get a fraction of those – and that’s even if you’ve got a number one listing in Google. So don’t don’t overestimate how much traffic you’ll get from those and finally make sure you’re.
Looking at how deep a niche is and looking for those longtail keywords, because the more you have of those and the less the volume drops off with those longtail keywords, the better chance, you have it getting a lot of traffic in that niche. It’s also a great strategy to pursue those longtail keywords in terms of SEO and marketing, because you’re going to be able to rank for those more easily will be less competition for them and they’ll convert better.
So if you have any questions about this article or about using the keyword tool in general love to answer them, they’ll do my best too. I just please leave them in the comment section below if you did enjoy this article and are interested in in learning more about niche evaluation, market research, ecommerce and how to start your own business or how to how to do research and improve your existing e-commerce business.
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What made us decide to go online was it was the way that the market had started going and it was just a matter of “. If you can ’ t Beat them join them, ”, Basically how the business started was my dad actually was a high school teacher and he was an industrial arts teacher Teaching woodwork teaching, metalwork electronics, And those sorts of things – and he had a kid – come up to him.
A student in his class and said “, Mr Haworth. I want to make a guitar ”. He decided to start his own workshop at home as a side thing to his full time, teaching making guitars. He opened up a shop then in Kiama Downs, where it was mostly a retail store. Then Ever since, probably about 10 or 11 years ago, when we moved into that physical shop, Front in Kiama Downs, we started an online web presence.
Then There wasn, ’ t many shops around who had a website back years ago and it was actually Set up by a student that my dad used to teach At that time it was pretty much my dad who was managing the eBay store and he Doesn, ’ t know anything about computers, but he was managing this eBay store and now eBay is probably about 50/50 With our website in terms of sales, So about 50 per cent comes from the website and 50 per cent come from eBay.
Online sales are about 20 per cent. Of our overall gross sales Buying it through the website is really easy now because it is set up so that it ’ s all Generated through a portal where they enter their credit card details or PayPal and it gets processed automatically The website, we revamped it and had a new One built about six months ago That ’ s a big part of it and then There is our eBay store.
They are the two points, the two e-commerce places where customers can actually buy things, Then, on top of that, a big one for Us is our Facebook Fan Page, then we ’ ve got Twitter and we also use YouTube. And we put out product reviews, we also put up Haworth TV episodes where customers can win prizes and things Like that, through YouTube, We have also got our own blog that we use. If we have a competition, we will Film, the YouTube article, the Haworth TV, and we will put it on Facebook.
We know that that gets the most hits. And everyone is on there and it is so easy so easy for them to reply and to comment, and things like that. So for us, Facebook is probably the biggest It. ’ s like the revolution of the internet. Right, Everyone is getting online. There is only a really small percentage: That don ’ t have a computer that don ’ t have the internet. So if I ’ m going to buy a fish tank, I ’ ll, just Google “ fish tanks, ” in my local area.
We make sure that in our local area, specifically that we are up there in the Google searches We have got to be, I think that most people, when they Are looking for a music store? Will just Google it? We have seen the new websites and there all content management systems like the CMS and it ’ s all quick and easy to use It. ’ s set out, like Microsoft word Most webpages out. There are only a year or a couple of years old.
If that We have got to make sure that We are at the cutting edge of that and make sure our website Is quick and easy to use it? ’ s quick and easy to update. It is easy for people to look at photos and to find prices and to search for Items and things like that, The main part was just that we had to Keep up with the times we have got to be at that kind of cutting edge, But the website we are mostly allocating one person three days a week to do that.
Just be wary of fraudulent credit cards and people out there doing the wrong thing as well, because we have been caught before where we have sent a guitar to somewhere in the world. Thinking that the credit card is fine and then we find out that it. ’ s a fake credit card and that we lose the guitar. We actually set up a world record. Day, a few years ago, where I did a world record and Broke a world record for the most guitars restrung in one hour, which was just a cool promo that we did, we thought it would be fun and we actually got a certificate and stuff, so that was really cool as well Other things that we are really proud Here, Are is just our staff and our team and how enthusiastic they are about music and basically helping us to spread the gift of music and helping people to play music.
So we have a fantastic team here that I am really proud of, and we Are very lucky to have [ Music Plays ]
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I have to share this with you guys. So, like always in my articles, I do the Y house and then the additionals, so here’s the Y right – and this might be obvious to some of you – maybe some of you – it won’t be.
It is deductions. Deductions are crazy. This is how even fortune 500 companies are able to operate a loss and not have to pay taxes, sometimes even end up with refunds, which is insane you need to take advantage of that if you’re in the u.S I’m in talking to US law, it’s it’s. It’S really really cool in regards to ecommerce. What we’re doing in Amazon, it’s up to $ 5,000 startup cost. That’S so much money, guys $ 5,000! Think of the all the equipment you need.
You need an iPhone or an Android phone right. You need a smart phone. You need a computer, so all that cost can be deducted from the startup cost. Here’S the cool thing. I know if you just start it now or maybe a couple months ago, anything you’ve purchased in the year of 2017. Let’S say because you know we’re coming up on the tax season, you can deduct so that computer you bought in March. It’S now a company computer.
So if you have the invoice for it, you can deduct it. So you can add up $ 5,000 pretty quickly um. So expenses are anything from from defer. Your deductions are anything from marketing advertising travel. So, like you know, flights or mileage if you’re driving in a car the electricity bill right, everyone has an electricity bill, the internet bill. You cannot do e-commerce without internet. That’S a deduction seminars, classes, accounting costs even so much as meals.
So if you’re meeting say you and a buddy are doing the Amazon, FBA and you’re meeting them and you’re brainstorming, that’s a business meeting right! You can deduct it! Here’S another! Here’S! Another big wine paper loss right. I was mentioning that earlier, so you can actually operate at a loss and that loss of your LLC will compensate for your income tax that you have in your day job. So let’s say you made fifty thousand dollars in your day.
Job and you operate your LLC at a ten thousand dollar loss, keep in mind, we’re not in the business of losing money, but let’s say you’ve lost ten thousand dollars that ten thousand dollars in taxes. You can use the $ 10,000 that you’ve lost in your business. Can be used against your personal income, so you pay less taxes either way right. Here’S the how the boring part right, the very first thing.
Once you form you LLC, you need to put a corporate structure in place, so what that is essentially is you’re going to be paying yourself a salary. The next thing that comes – and I believe this has to be done within 75 days. It’S called an ECE. It’S an entity classification election. Now I don’t know all the details about it, but I can tell you needs to be done within 75 days and what it is is you’re letting the IRS know how you want to be taxed.
If you do not do this as an LLC, they will basically just decide to tax you at the highest rate, which is, I believe, as an individual and that’s a tax rate up to 15 percent. You don’t want that. You want the lowest possible rate. The help right this is this is really boring, we’re not in the tax business, at least I’m not. This is where you get help. I did it with 100 accountants. I would highly recommend them.
They set things up for you, they’re very personal, and you work with a team, so you’re working with a team, so you’re always going to be working with the same people. The people will already know about your expenses. They will go through your if you’re starting now they will go through 2017 credit card statements, alongside with you, and make sure that you’re getting the solid deductions remember they’re working for you.
Their best interest is to provide you with good service, so your remain on them. On the you know, on their payroll, your remain as a customer I mean, and and basically save you money, so the cost for that is about two to three thousand dollars annually. I know that’s a lot they do. You can split that up in payment. They do let you do that and then there’s a 30 dollar retainer. Now don’t freak out guys.
I know that’s a lot of money and that might not be the first thing you want to think of doing, but consider it as you know, as a cost to starting your first. You know your first product really right. You know you’re putting in such a financial commitment you’re going to drive yourself to success. Anyways right. It’S it’s another big thing. You know having no plan B, it’s it’s it’s a big thing, sometimes just jumping with both feet in and yeah it’s and then at it’s.
Just the 30 to 30 dollar cost. The cool thing is: if you need any so articles consultation, they don’t have any hourly fees. You just set up an appointment and you just talk to them. It’S it’s no problem, so there’s no hidden cost. Here’S the crazy thing on top of that we’re talking about deductions earlier right, you can deduct that. So essentially it’s done for you for free, it’s already a tax saving.
Not only will they do your personal business, you you Peart, they will do your business tax and they will do your personal tax. So if you’re already paying someone for your personal tax, you can scratch that right off you’re going to get that done with them anyways. So awesome, that’s the information I wanted to share with you guys. Let me know down in the comments below if I misspoke on something, if there’s something you guys want me to look into and share with you even further put a like hit subscribe thanks for reading
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