Archive for the ‘Domain’ Category

How To Choose A Business Name – The eCommerce Way

August 1st, 2013

how to choose a business name

With the clutter on the web increasing everyday, building a memorable brand starts with your name, and to help you get started on naming your business we reached out to the professional naming experts behind the naming company BrandBucket. We’ve had the pleasure in working with them on our own name, when we opted to buy wazala.com from them a few years back. 

BrandBucket is a marketplace for brandable .com business names, (think Google, Yahoo and Pinterest). They help startups and entrepreneurs find the perfect name for their venture quickly and easily by being able to pick from a list and complete the transaction immediately. They also offer great advice on how to choose a business name, let’s dive into some of their suggestions. Read the rest of this entry »

Tracking Your Ecommerce Business With Google Analytics™

May 26th, 2012

“Feedback is the breakfast of champions.”
– Ken Blanchard

 If your have a large Wazala subscription, you can integrate Google Analytics with your Wazala Store. Google Analytics is an amazing tool. It gives you an insane amount of statistics, and allows you to see how each statistic relates to one another, like page views vs. conversions. This way, you can view the direct correlation between sales and an individual action, showing you whats working at what needs work. This kind of feedback is invaluable in perfecting your marketing strategy. To link up Google Analytics to your Wazala store, you must do the following. Read the rest of this entry »

Automate Your Wazala Experience

May 23rd, 2011

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency.
– Bill Gates

We’ve got a new feature! And this is not some small tweak. We’ve been working hard on an API, knowing that many of you wish to automate the forwarding of your online store sales directly to your website, and it’s official, the automated order forward capability is live. Read the rest of this entry »

Hep Videos For Integrating Your Wazala Online Store

March 30th, 2011

A good video can make all the difference.
–  Brian May

OK so Brian (guitarist and a songwriter of the rock band Queen) was probably referring to music videos, but how to videos, can also make a difference! When integrating your Wazala online store to you website, blog or Facebook, some details differ depending on what platform or CMS you use to manage your site. This is why our new section on helping you integrate is live with how to videos on the most popular platforms out there. Read the rest of this entry »

Add a Custom Domain to Your Wazala Store

September 10th, 2010

“The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.”
— Chinese Proverbs

Hosted e-commerce platforms almost all give you a unique URL. With us you get yourstorename.wazala.com as your stand-alone store that you can link to. You can even customize the look and feel of your store to make it your own. However, some of you are concerned about personal branding, and having the Wazala name in the URL may not be ideal. Well, now your store can be on your own domain name! Read the rest of this entry »