I apologize for the two day gap in posts. I belong to a group called Octopus eCommerce (OctoEcom) a group of Marketing and Technology folk who meet once per week to discuss our eCommerce projects.
I have been working on building a public forum for our discussion over at OctoEcom.com. If you like the content and discussions here you’ll love this blog. Head on over and give it a once over. I’ll be heavily moderating all discussions on the site so feel free to drop me a line.
Below is a list of our initial Forums that will be developed:
Establishing the Business
Sell a product or advertise for someone who is - Time/Financial Investments - Skill sets you will require
Technology Considerations
Hosting Options - Choosing Domain Names - Open Source vs Proprietary - Programming Languages Pros / Cons
Site Building
From Scratch or CMS - Look and Feel - Content Development - Integration of Payment / Shipping Features
Acquiring Traffic
Direct, Referral, Search (Paid & Organic) - Bootstrapping a website - Good and Bad Sources - Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Analytics
Keyword Keywords Keywords - Goal Conversion - Evaluating Content Entrance and Exit Points - Geotargeting
Web Tools, Scripts and Utilities
Webmaster Tools - Site Evaluations - Handy AJAX, PHP, Powershell and Other Scripts - FTP, Photo Editing, and Other Utilities
Tags: New Projects