Archive: How-to
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Apr 15, 2013
No CommentsstoreBlox CS Tip: Import your customers into your email or CRM service
Did you know you can export your users and import them into an email or newsletter service, or even into a CRM (customer relationship management) package? It’s easy! Log into your webBlox dashboard Select Manage Users Click Export Results as CSV File That’s it! You’ll have a file you can open in Excel orimport into services like Constant Contact, Mailchimpor CRM...
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Jan 23, 2013
No CommentsUsing Email Kung Fu to Build Repeat Business
After abandonment (people leaving in the middle of the shopping or purchasing process), the biggest problem for e-commerce is getting users back to buy again — in other words, generating repeat business. It’s also a given that an opt-in email address is golden — when a user registers on your site and you can send them promotions, they’re...
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Sep 10, 2012
No CommentsThe Bare-Bones Basics of Web Statistics
Here in Austin, I teach classes at a local non-profit organization that helps people start their own businesses. I’ve been teaching folks about building basic web sites, search engine optimization, and web marketing for about five years. Once – and only once, mind you – I taught a class on web analytics. Web analytics are...
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Jun 27, 2011
No CommentsstoreBlox CS Email Template Management
We’ve now given you complete control over the content and formatting of all the emails generated by your company store. Our new Email Notification system allows complete customization of every email – total control over WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) HTML and variables. If you need to customize messaging, formatting or content,...
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Jul 14, 2010
1 CommentCustom URLs
For those of you that really like to tweak your search engine indexing performance, storeBlox 2 now offers custom URL management for products. storeBlox has long had the capability of automatically generating keyword-based URLs derived from each product name. However, many of you would like to add keywords to the URL that you wouldn’t normally...
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Jun 01, 2008
No CommentsWeb Developer’s SEO Cheat Sheet
Great resource here for the technically inclined, especially if you want to know how many characters to put in a title tag or how many bytes a web page should be. Good stuff even for those of you just worried about creating proper meta tags. Check it out...
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Mar 24, 2008
No CommentsOnline Backup Comes of Age
A quick show of hands: How many of you have a current (that is, within the last few days), complete backup of your laptop or PC at hand in case something goes terribly wrong? I thought so. Like to live on the edge, eh? Of those of you that are backed up and ready for...