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New Habits From Covid… Is Your Business Ready?
Not too many years ago, there was a large community of “brick and mortar” small businesses that thought they didn’t need a website.
Why waste money on a website they thought, 100% of my business happens in person, in my store, from people that drive here, shop here and buy here.
Today you will rarely find any business without a website. Once people started searching for and navigating to “brick and mortar” businesses using their smart phones that created directions based off their website name and address… suddenly, everyone needed a website to survive.
But shop online?
No, “my customers all eat in my dining area” or “my customers like to touch, feel, or try on their items before buying them” so I don’t need the ability to “sell online”. The common thinking was that a website just needed to get them to the business location and the rest would happen after they arrived.
Until Covid came knocking and flattened the small business community with repeated jabs and left hooks, beating these businesses bloody or just killing them off altogether.
But Covid did not treat everyone equally… some people are doing better because of Covid that before Covid – we’re looking at you Jeff Bezos!
The offline world shifted to online.
People that never shopped online before suddenly “found” that it worked pretty good. Instead of dealing with the rules and risk of “in-person” shopping, they bought their new jeans online, purchased groceries online using Instacart, and generally just shifted from “running to the store” to “ordering from their smart phones”.
After doing this for a few weeks it became a habit.
Sure, some people will slide back and stop using Instacart for groceries because it adds cost too their bill and requires a little more planning. But even these people will use the service when it’s cold, or rainy or they’re sick or just need a last minute load of groceries for their party and don’t want to make the run themselves.
Habits formed that are make lives easier rarely get broken (unlike trying to build the habit to exercise daily) so you need to expect that your world has changed if you used to count on your “brick and mortar” location to generate your sales.
If you’re not providing a convenient way for people to buy from you online – you’re facing a decline and eventually the death of your business.
You need to have an e-commerce channel to survive!
But here’s the good news.
If you do it correctly, you can actually increase your business and make your “brick and mortar” business stronger and more profitable than it was before Covid pulled the rug from under your entryway.
Using a system like CloudNet360.com, suddenly you have an easy way to automate your follow up communication to increase add on sales all year and special promotions can be done with a few clicks.
Imagine removing the repetitive tasks you do in your business today and replacing them with simple sales automation that literally does the work for you so you can focus on the parts of your business you love.
If you think this is too good to believe for your business, then call an expert advisor today and they’ll listen to what you need and then explain exactly how it can be automated… in many cases, they’ll even do it for you.
Your customer habits have changed so the sooner you adapt to the “new normal”, the sooner you’ll take advantage of the situation. Lord & Taylor filed for bankruptcy protection but Amazon is watching their stock price soar… which path will you take?
Call today, it’s fast friendly and best of all – 100% FREE
Choosing The Correct High Risk Merchant Account For Your Cannabidiol or Hemp Oil Business!
But here’s the rub with merchant accounts.
It doesn’t matter if they are correct or incorrect because the merchant service providers get to set all the rules and you get to suffer all the consequences of their decisions no matter how incorrect they might be.
High Risk Merchant Account Rule #1 – Be 100% certain that you have Hemp Oil and / or cannabidiol oil listed as products on your application. This product identification needs to be front and center, never buried deep in the middle of a lengthy paragraph of products offered.
High risk merchant account sales people are not risk management – Your merchant services sales person could be your best friend, neighbor… heck, even your own mother… but when there’s a security problem, the sales people are not considered at all. Sales people are not even in the room when the security decisions and actions are being made.
During the proverbial SHTF scenario, your sales representative, customer support person, etc. are all powerless to help you and the security people will never even speak with you.
You will be kicked to the curb with zero recourse!
Credit Card Processing is a Monopoly – You will not be treated “fairly” because there is no need for them to be “fair” with you. Credit card processing is a monopoly and they know you’re forced to do what they tell you to do or go back to an “all cash” business. Cash only is bad for sales in a brick and mortar store and not even possible for an online retailer.
Crypto currency is a fantasy, cash is dead, MasterCard and Visa rule the business world and even Amex and Discover are not able to penetrate the armor of this monopoly.
Too many business people have been lured into merchant accounts that are not truly high risk merchant accounts specific to the cannabidiol oil or hemp oil industries and have suffered the business death blow of their merchant account freezing all their money.
Usually this happens as the business is taking off, sales are up which then triggers a “merchant account review” and this review then discovers that the products being sold have too much risk for their preferred business. Legal or illegal, moral or immoral, effective or ineffective, none of this matters when dealing with a monopoly.
You need to choose your high risk merchant account wisely, and you always need to follow rule #1.
If you need help finding an appropriate high risk merchant account for your cannabidiol oil (CBD) or hemp oil business, contact us at CloudNet360 and we’ll set you on the best path for business success.
Video vs. Static Image
The hazard of using this style of video is that most often, people don’t know whether what you have posted is an image or a video.
It’s important that people understand that you are posting a video versus a static image.
Watch the video for a cool tip on how to overcome this:
Exciting, New, “Selectable Recurring Billing” Feature
It’s true that we crank out an amazing amount of new features each month. Sometimes too many to even keep up with!
Some features are intended to make the system easier, some features add automation, some features put more cash in your pocket and then there’s the occasional new feature that does all of the above …plus more!
These are the features that truly gets a marketing maven excited to be in this industry and provides the motivation to wake up before the rest of the world each day. I’m excited just being able to announce this!
Today I want you to put away the “work arounds”, the clunky sales flows, and the “just can’t be done’s” because today you have the new, Selectable Recurring Billing capability included in your CloudNet360 online shopping cart.
Watch this short video to learn what it can do for you and discover how easily this exciting new feature can be implemented into your sales flow today.
The “do nothing” Fulfillment Center
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