Posts Tagged store management

Christmas is over and you’re now relaxing with your feet up and a celebratory drink!  Well, the holiday period is not over and with a little push now you can extend your holiday sales into January, even February. Update your Zen Cart Store Keep your store fresh by adding a couple of small updates to [...]

The e-commerce market has changed the face of Christmas shopping.  Where as in the past people fought their way through crowded shopping malls and spent days of stressful shopping going from store to store, today all their shopping can be done from the comfort of their own home.  The first step in being able to [...]

Most of us get carried away when we are shopping for Christmas presents and other Christmas purchases (like we just must have that new table setting or set of cushions for the day to be perfect).  This is perfect for Zen Cart online store owners to take advantage of this as we can easily employ [...]

Just like department stores are prepared for Christmas by October, your online store needs to show that you’re prepared for Christmas too.  It’s easy to show your customers you are ready for Christmas with Zen Cart and as both customers and search engines love updated sites with new content now is a good time to [...]

In Part One – Back to Basics Store Management we went through aspects of getting ready that could be considered more ‘behind-the-scenes’.  Today, we are are looking at your store as your customers see it. Professional Store or amateur web site? Check all pages, including your product pages, for issues that will undermine your professional [...]

As Christmas can be one of the most lucrative times of the year for any store, an important step in your preparation is to ensure your foundations are ready. Backup Before making any changes to your Zen Cart store in preparation for Christmas, ensure you know exactly how to do a backup of your store [...]

As we approach the biggest sales opportunity of the year, Zen Cart store owners need to plan getting their store ready for the Christmas rush. Online stores are the perfect alternative to the shopping mall frenzy and every year more and more people are buying more and more online.  So it make sense to be [...]