If you are looking for a Shopping Cart and you are just TOTALLY confused by all of them, I dont blame you. In this blog post I will show you something that none of them will show until its TOO LATE.
BANDWIDTH LIMITS aka TRAFFIC TO YOUR WEBSITE
You probably have no clue what these number mean or how much you bandwidth you actually need. This is where the SCHEME occurs. They trick you into believing you get X amount of visitors while in reality it is a total opposite. Let me share some analytics.
All them offer a bandwidth plan that does not exceed 20GB for their most expensive package.
The website on the screen shot below got only 2,536 visitors in one month. Those visitors went through 43,000 pages. Search Engine Crawlers went through 22,197 pages.
Now it is very hard to predict how many pageviews you will have. It all depends on your website. If you are a niche store, for every visitor you will get X amount of pageviews. In the website below, every visitor on average went through 16 pages before leaving the website. You might have a website where only 2 pages are triggered for each visitor.
Now if you havent watched my videos on what you need to succeed, I mentioned what kind of traffic you need to get, in order to get X amount of orders. This was based on my personal store results.
These are typical results if you have a popular product, targeted traffic, and competitive prices:
50 Unique Daily Visitors / 1500 Unique Monthly Visitors = 1-2 orders per week
100 Unique Daily Visitors / 3000 Unique Monthly Visitors = 3-4 orders per week
200 Unique Daily Visitors / 6000 Unique Monthly Visitors = 1 order per day or every other day
300 Unique Daily Visitors / 9000 Unique Monthly Visitors = 1 order per day
400 Unique Daily Visitors / 12000 Unique Monthly Visitors = 2-5 order per day
etc.
So considering that the most expensive plan they have will cap you at 1 order per day I really dont see how they can have thousands of successful clients or why anyone would even sign up with them, KNOWING that they will get capped and wont be able to expand further.
Here is one of my website that my partner operates (screenshot below):
152GB PER MONTH!
None of the Shopping Carts mentioned, even offer a plan that would handle this website, and this website is considered small time compared to its competitors.
You know why they dont even offer a service for a website like this? Because their SERVERS WONT HANDLE IT!!!! Who can handle 4.3 MILLION REQUESTS without a web farm? They have these crappy $2,000 - $4,000 shared servers operating tens if not hundreds of clients on the same one.
I am not even going to talk about the RIP OFF that comes after you go over your limits, which BTW none of them are advertising them to the public. I could not find the overage rates visible on any Shopping Cart websites. I can assure one thing though that once you do go over and you will if you want to see even a slight chance of success, you are going to get a HOLY FIELD KNOCK OUT by that Shopping Cart as soon as you do.
WHY SO LITTLE COMPLAINTS?
So why are there no complaints? Because they specifically designed their service to make sure their clients DO NOT SUCCEED! The customer starts the website, then 3-6 months down the line the website doesnt sell anything, so the customer quits and the next one signs up. ITS A PERFECT CYCLE!
The entrepreneur feels that they failed because its their own fault. They think that they were using the STATE OF THE ART SHOPPING CART with THOUSANDS OF SUCCESSFUL CUSTOMERS and all those Mobile Commerce and Social Commerce FEATURES (COMPLETE CRAP THAT DOESNT WORK) had to do the job, and at the end they failed.
UPDATE: We recently noticed a ton of complaints surfacing on review sites proving my point - READ COMMENTS: http://www.seoshoppingcarts.com/reviews/volusion/
READ THE COMMENTS ON THE BOTTOM OF THE LINK ABOVE
SEO AND TRAFFIC
How about the fact that each one of them advertises Google Adwords as the primary source of traffic?
SERIOUSLY???? WHY WOULD YOU RECOMMEND NEW STARTS UP TO PAY FOR TRAFFIC. NOT ONLY DID YOU STEAL THEIR MONEY, BUT NOW YOU WANT GOOGLE TO STEAL THEIR MONEY?
New Startups need to set up their website and make sure FREE TRAFFIC will convert first before they pay for it. We would never advise and NEVER HAVE advised our clients to pay for their TRAFFIC, BEFORE! they built up their FREE ORGANIC traffic and were fully confident it converted.
BUT WAIT THERE IS MORE!!!!! - If you know anything about SEO you are going to love this. Check out these packages they offer and the prices!
Each of them sells these SEO services which are not only overpriced, but a complete rip off because they clearly DO NOT WORK if you know anything about SEO. However they have been selling it anyway for years!
THE SOLUTION
I honestly have had enough of this BULL CRAP. I tired of new entrepreneurs calling me personally and asking me to compare us (Shopping Cart Elite) to these WANNABES.THERE IS NOTHING TO COMPARE. Our Shopping Cart works and theirs doesnt, its that simple.
I also hate the fact that these WANNABEs are COPYING US I put 15 day trial, they put 15 day trial. I put a video on the homepage, they put a video on the homepage.
Well lets see what they can do with this:
Here is a little stunt that the WANNABES will have a real hard time with:
Shopping Cart Elite is now FREE OF CHARGE (yep no more $199/mo for software and EVEN the economy HOSTING (1GB of HD and 5GB of Bandwidth for the new startups) IS FREE AS WELL!
Now you are required to go with our SEO SERVICE (THAT ACTUALLY WORKS) but guess what, its 40%-200% cheaper than what the WANNABEs are charging and IT ACTUALLY WORKS and you get to USE A MUCH BETTER SHOPPING CART SYSTEM AT NO CHARGE AT ALL FOR LIFE!
Beat that
HERE IS A LINK TO SIGN UP FOR SHOPPING CART ELITE
P.S. Oh and did I mention that 95% of our clients get their traffic for FREE! Organically! and pay 0,NADA,ZIP for their TRAFFIC! the other 5% are big enough to get both :)