ProStores recently improved their eBay interface to offer template design that is unparalleled from previous versions.

The image on the left is an actual eBay listing template we tested for one of our clients listing both to their website and eBay. Once the template is installed in ProStores, you simply click a button on the product in the backend that say “List to eBay” using this template (or any other variation you create).

So YES – ProStores does now have eBay templates that can make your eBay listing stand out in the crowd.

There has been a fair amount of discussion about how ProStores can help your business grow and how friendly it is to use. With the recent changes, we say that ProStores has adapted to become a formidable platform for online sellers with ease of use in many ways.

Check ProStores out here

Many sellers who are trying to list to eBay and an online store will find the new feature easy to use and an all-in-one place to sell online. Not only does ProStores feature this new ditty, but it also feeds directly to many of the shopping portals like Googlebase, Shopping.com etc. This means that in one place you can list your items and sell multi-channel without much effort at all. I’d say that is worth the price of admission.

aGenius offers a store design package that also integrates all the elements of the eBay listing template and Prostores Web Design to make it easier to get up and running beautifully.

I love this RGB color picker to easily identify the color and find the RGB code for it. Simple and straightforward. Funny but we have so many clients that ask for Blue, and we say, “What Blue” – there are so many variations of a color. Next time you ask for something from a web designer, take a check here to find out the RGB equivalent and make your web designer happier.

Some people who plan to earn affiliate revenue online never think about formulas to determine how to do it. It’s really an essential to know what you are up against, what you need to do to earn revenues.

If you are an ecommerce site planning to add this to your ecom, think twice. Here are some figures to estimate whether or not it’s worth it.

Let’s say you can get about 3000 unique visitors a month. And let’s say your average Click Rate is about 3% (which is nice and high). It equates to about $50 dollars in Google Adsense revenue, and if you have really good content for your direct visitor, you might be able to get them to view more and more pages, resulting in let’s say 25K in pageviews. Of those page views you could be earning let’s say .50 cents per click on 3% so you might even end up with 375. a month.

Doing some affiliate products that earn more than just a few dollars each, with just the unique visitor count and that click through rate, you might earn say 20. per item you send them to, making it something like $1800 a month.

But let me make something very clear, these numbers are very optimistic. I would rather estimate a 1% click rate on the unique visitors at a mere 4. per clicker to get $360, and keep working to improve my traffic, then to estimate that all my visitors are great big spenders who will want the single widget that I have and read all the content on my website.

If you are running an ecommerce site, most likely you’ll want to forgo this type of advertising, unless you do a blog on your site. Earning affiliate revenues of a few hundred a month, or selling products for many more hundreds (or thousands a month) on a small site is a no-brainer. You don’t want to send your visitor to your ecommerce site off to another site where you may or may not get revenue.

If you are looking to get involved in social marketing, like regular ecommerce marketing, you need to devote an hour a day. Even a few minutes a day is sufficient to get you up and running and make your network grow. It seems like everytime I make a twitter post, more followers come with it. It really doesn’t matter what I say, it’s just that I said something.

How many users are out there that are looking for your perspective, more information or something to fodder with in the realm of your conversation. A Lot.

Take an hour and read about it, engage in it, and have it for lunch. You’ll be surprised how fast you can build a network of socials that are looking for that message that you have to offer.

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No doubt, we are moving into mobile connectivity like no other. This great video illustrates just how powerful mobile use is today and how far forward we are reaching right this minute.

Next up in our testing environment is RSS Graffitti. We decided to give this plugin application for Facebook a shot at getting our wordpress posts on our Facebook Business Page Wall. The reason for this is because using notes we did not get the ability to comment on posts, or full outside links from our facebook fan page.

RSS Graffitti is a great application, still in Beta. It does all of those things, posts images, comments, status updates and is only missing a few minor things. It does not post status updates (which shoot to Twitter) and images at the same time, so not that great, but when we couple WordPress with Tweet Suite or other Twitter plugins, we know we can do this.

So all in all, we like it!

If you were toying with Facebook pages like we were and you still could not get your pages to show your blog, well, it’s all very simple.However there appears to be an issue if you have used other methods and then it became very mucky. So basically delete everything else that has to do with blogs, etc. and just add the notes like we did and wallah! yes folks it does work. Follow the instructions so nicely given by one of the users on another site we visited:

1. First create your business page.
2. add ‘Notes’ as an additional tab alongside WALL, INFO,
3. Third click on ‘Write a new note’ adding a test note then save draft
4. in the notes settings click ‘edit import setting’
5. add your blogs RSS feed and click the permission box

After attempting the Networked Blog application on Facebook, the result was not optimal. Facebook appears to already have handled passing page rank, so we are left with satisfying our fans on our business page for Facebook. Using Social RSS we were able to add the blog and take users to an offsite link to our blog without having to use a frame like the Networked app wanted to do.

Social RSS is a facebook application also. It appears in a frame on your left sidebar or in a tab on your Facebook Business page. It’s also not optimal, but it’s not bad.

We are now testing it to see if we can get it to post directly to the wall. Let you know….

So if you own a business and you have a FaceBook Page, like our Facebook Page you’ll want to make life easier and get your WordPress blog to post to your Wall and update Twitter. So how do you do it?

1. Find the application Networked Blogs.

2. Install and configure it in your Facebook page.

3. Let your Business Page write to Twitter. (see notes below)

4. Go to your wordpress and start blogging. Your blog goes to facebook and your facebook goes to twitter and your done.

We are doing a test on this now!

Update: So networked Blogs is not optimum. First of all, no it does not tweet unless you tweet it from your page. Not bad but not that good. Your tweet will carry networked blogs url, and be framed by them, thwarting page rank you might otherwise get. As does your Facebook page blog. So we are scouting another solution for this.

You want it When?!

Holiday Deadlines are here. Retailers that are interested in selling for the Holidays have about seven  days left to get online and running. If you didn’t already plan for selling this year, and have no web design, may we suggest you sell on eBay?