You may have seen recent posts about when refunds are posted to your account, or how to make sure you’re not losing money on international orders. I’ve even written about how to help customers who want to change how often receive a recurring delivery to simplify the process.

As I thought about it, I realized that most of the tips and tricks I’ve come across with 1ShoppingCart with my clients relate to specific problems.

It seems to me that you guys should be asking the questions that you want to see answered here on this blog. I want to help you make your website as profitable as possible, but that only comes with knowing your specific concerns.

So, fire away and let me know what aspects of setting up an account or keeping it running are giving you a headache. Consider me aspirin that comes in several forms:

1. If it’s a quick question, you might see me pop into the comments to address it as soon as I get to reading it. You don’t have to worry about long waits.
2. For more involved processes, you may see the the answer as an upcoming blog post. We’ll be sure to let the asker know and credit them in the post!
3. If you need a full-scale consultation to make sure that your business can go from scratch to fully up-and-running, you want to contact me through this site so I can assess your needs.

Three choices and whichever you choose, you’ll get rapid responses about your 1ShoppingCart needs from a leader in the field.

Let’s get started: What do you want me to write about and answer just for you?

So why are you feeling so down all of a sudden?

It might be because of 1ShoppingCart’s invoice and packing slip system.

When I was first starting out, I used to want to tear my hair out in frustration. When I was only selling a few dozen items a week, it wasn’t that big a deal to go into an order, click on Print Invoice and be on my merry way.

But being successful made me unhappy. It was click on an order, click on print invoice, click on OK. Over and over, again.

Does that sound like it’s fun? No?

One of the things about 1ShoppingCart Experts is that we like to minimize the few hassles that 1SC does offer.

And that’s why I came up with my 1ShoppingCart Automated Invoice Printing System.

No more invoice by invoice. It lets you export orders to an Excel spreadsheet, upload it into the program and then export it as a document where you can print out tens or even hudreds of orders at a time.

You don’t have to be at that level of sales to realize how great this is for someone looking to save time.

In fact, every five minutes you save on the order fulfillment process is time you can use tweaking your e-mail marketing campaign, or running tests on your opt-in campaigns. It’s not time saved, it’s money you’ll be able to earn.

Setting things up can take a little bit of time but the payoff can be big. One alternative I found for SEO purposes is using Google Profiles. Why does it work so well? Let’s check it out.

I set up my google profile for myself that you can see by clicking here.

It’s got everything a client might want to know, including a client list, what sets me apart and my background and experience in the field. I even put schools and other names (think keywords here).

When I checked after a bit of time, I realized that it helped my name come up #1 in Google. Now, keep in mind that I’m no John Smith, but this is still really cool.

Check it out. Go to Google, type in Tyler Sorensen and looks whose #1 baby, yours truly.

It’s simple to fill out, so basically in 5-10 minutes you can get your name out there in a forum linked to the number one search engine in the world. It’s free, and even if you’ve calculated your hourly rate and used that, the value of getting your name up high in the search engines is critical.

If you use your own name in advertising your product, and your reputation precedes you, I can think of no better way to spend your five minute break setting up a Google Profile and driving traffic back to your 1ShoppingCart equipped site. Make sure you enter keywords relevant to your business, just like you would with any search engine optimized content.

Now it’s your turn. Take a few minutes and build your personal Google Profile by clicking here. Then let me know how it’s working for you.

‘Til next time.

You all know what I’m talking about, the voicemail where the guy or gal calls to tell you how terrible of a person you are, or how much your product sucks, or just some absolutely ridiculous reason why they should get a refund.

So how do you handle them?

Tim Ferris of the “Four Hour Work Week” just posted a video on practical tactics for dealing with haters and he posted it on his blog for everyone to watch free of charge.

Tim is a man I have much respect for, and a quote on his blog by Colin Powell rings so true for Internet Marketing:

“Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity.”

So do you know what to do if you ever get someone who hates you on your case? Or how about what to do when some bad publicity comes your way?

Another one of our clients was mentioned in an article and was totally misrepresented. They selectively took some of his words, twisted them and then published them to the world. And guess what…

Once something’s out for the world to see your options are limited, and soon enough the hate mail started rolling in.

We all know how damaging negative publicity can be, and there’s
no good way of knowing how many potential clients he lost because of this.

In the video Tim talks about why you should record all interviews YOURSELF. Whether it’s a radio or print ad. Why? Because then YOU hold the evidence of what was truly said and you have the right to post that entire interview anywhere you want.

Imagine if my client would have recorded that interview? We could have limited the damage having that recording available to us. Tim also goes through some other invaluable tips, so make sure you check it out.

Watch the video now by clicking here. It’s a must watch.

It’s so easy to use, and best of all… it doesn’t cost a single penny.

We’ve all done the quick, how does my site look in the couple different browsers I have on my computer check, and if you don’t do this, start NOW!

Well most of us only have a couple or few browsers on our computer, and having a quick to check ALL browsers is out of the question. Well, there’s a tool out there that helps  solves this…

It’s called Adobe BrowserLab.

When you go to this website, put in your site’s URL and it will automatically give you a screenshot of what your website looks like in ALL browsers (e.g. IE, Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari, etc.).

Not only will it give you what your website looks like in the current version of a browser but it will show you what it looks like in past versions as well. Quickly comparing IE8 and IE7 is now a snap.

You will be amazed at the things you will find when looking at your website in different browsers. And this isn’t just from a “look pretty” standpoint, you could actually be losing sales because something doesn’t show up correctly in one of the browsers.

But the best feature, is the ability to test different resolutions. People have their screen sizes set many different options, and checking those manually is a HUGE pain. This tool gives you the option to check different resolutions, which can be a big time saver.

There’s even more subtle options, such as checking to see what happens to your site when a user has javascript or Flash disabled. (And yes, there are people who visit your site with these disabled)

So save yourself some time, and visit the site below to check out your website in different browsers. You’ll have to setup an account if you don’t already have one, but don’t worry… it’s free!

https://browserlab.adobe.com