Archive for the 'Tips & Promotion' Category



January
2


This is the best time for you to create a shop selling On SALE items. With holiday sales you have access to over thousands of products available from our merchant list. That could be your new niche store for the short season.

You can sell anything from clothes to magazines and much more. The catch is to rotate your products so it is available.

Happy Sale Selling!


December
17

We know that you have been asking yourself the same questions over and over again; which one of these merchants offers the highest pay per sale commission?

Well, below you will find the top 10 merchants that offer the highest commission rate available right now.

1- Magazines.com 20%

2- Magazania.com 18%

3- 4-Your-Printer 15%

4- Avanquest.com 15%

5- Podmaxx.com 15%

6- Bonsai Boy 12%

7- HipHopBling.com 12%

8- Love and pride 12%

9- Media Fast 12%

10- Verseo 10.5%


Do you have their products featured in your shop?


December
13


As you know, we have different commission programs available. One is CPA (cost per action), then you have CPC (cost per click) and last you can chose the combination of both.

Did you know that you can track down and see how much you can get in CPC? When you go to you commissions link and see how much you have made in commissions, it shows you how you got your commission. If you got it by CPC, you can click on it and see how much commission you get every time someone clicks on the products that you sell and how much each category of products offer in commission.

Notice this, NOT all products have CPC action available.

Happy Clicking :) !


November
6

We found the perfect solution to turn your Holiday Season gifts into a child’s play:


May
16

I’d just like to take the opportunity to thank YOU, Zlio users for all the bright and innovative suggestions you keep sending us.

Keep posting your ideas in the “Contact us / Suggest an idea” section, under the “help” tab to help us improve the Zlio service !

And for a bit of breaking news, starting next week, this blog will offer you the best tips to help promote your ZlioShop through SEO*, so keep watching this spot !

* Search Engine Optimization  


April
2

No, this isn’t spam, don’t worry :-)

If you have a Zlioshop that you are proud of, which is theme-oriented and looks nice, you can submit it in the comments below.

The owners of the ZlioShops selected by our team will be interviewed on this blog for some effortless advertising, lucky you !
Don’t forget to “pimp your shop” before submitting it, by modifying its css for example, it will improve your chances.


March
16

We provide a selection of templates to choose from. However, if you wish to customize your ZlioShop even more, you can try modifying CSS with this tutorial.

Some Zlio members already started expressing their creativity through CSS, the results are awesome!

Some examples:

- http://usa-president-2008.zlio.com/

- http://shop.ofzenandcomputing.com/

Good luck with yours !


February
28

You might have read it in our newsletter already but I’d really like to emphasize the fact that you should give your shop a theme if you want to attract a lot of visitors and ultimately make good commission.

There are so many online shops out there… I’m talking about large ones, with brand names you all know and small ones like your ZlioShops. If you want your own shop to get noticed you really need to pick a theme carefully and stick to it. It works better when it’s something you already know about (say cooking, sports or video games) because then you already have specific ideas of which products you’d like to display.

It’s even better if you can be very specific, like a shop dedicated not just to cartoons but to Spiderman or another one dedicated to Spanish cooking… If you feel frustrated about being so specific you could always start another shop about Japanese cooking, another about French pastries…. and so on, remember you can manage up to 10 shop now !

Don’t forget to fill in all the details in your general settings page, especially “tagline” and “description” and eventually “free text”. Use the major keywords to describe your shop (spain, paella, tapas, cooking, recipes etc… in my last example) as many times as you can, as this will help Google and other search engines list you.

It’s up to you now !


February
22

We have deactivated the statistics system built in Zlio (currently in beta phase) and will soon delete this service. The results obtained weren’t relevant compared to other solutions on the market.We strongly suggest you to use the free tool Google Analytics to track your shop’s statistics. A more advanced integration to our service will soon be available.

How to:

Retrieve your code from Google Analytics and paste it in the area provided at the bottom of the editing page (here).

To access Google Analytics, click here !

After a few hours , you’ll be able to consulted detailed statistics from your shop.


February
13

Have you ever browsed round your ZlioShop and wondered whether there was a quick and easy way to edit settings for a particular item without going through the control panel?

Well, here’s some good news! From now on, whenever you’re on a product factsheet page, you just need to key in ALT + Z or CTRL + Z (”Z” for “Zlio” … easy, right?) and the settings box will pop-up for that item… Couldn’t be simpler!