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Starting an Online Business All-in-One For Dummies, 5th Edition
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Starting an Online Business All-in-One For Dummies, 5th Edition

by Shannon Belew, Joel Elad
January 2017
Beginner
912 pages
23h 47m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 4

Converting Browsers to Buyers

IN THIS CHAPTER

check Providing content to keep your customers coming back

check Figuring out what your customers want

check Creating a website that users enjoy

check Tempting your customers with good offers

People measure online businesses by using different statistics (such as total revenue, total profit, and total number of customers). Another measurement, however, exists in the online world that doesn’t exist in a bricks-and-mortar business: Stickiness indicates how many minutes a user stays at a certain website.

Stickiness is measured from the moment online users first load your website on their screen to the moment they either move on to another website or close the web browser, including the time spent browsing around the site and deciding what to do there. The longer the average time, the stickier the web business. The more time that people spend on your website, the greater the chance that they will purchase one or more of your products or interact with other customers.

Some online businesses are stickier because of their purpose. Compare businesses such ...

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