Monday Is Usually The Busiest Day For Ecommerce
Derek Cladek on July 13th, 2009
I usually wake up around 8:30 on Monday mornings because I know that we have a lot of catch up to do with our online stores. When you are running 5 Yahoo Stores things tend to get hectic. Multiple orders through each store can add to the stress of any busy work week. One problem that can arise for any entrepreneur is that with so many yahoo stores running at the same time, you can get ‘too’ many orders to keep up. This past week has been one of those weeks!
Finding the time to do ‘everything’ such as SEO, Article Marketing, Social Marketing, Phone Calls, Emails, Order Processing and Shipping and then doing that for 5 businesses becomes a rather large task! That is why it is highly important to start off any week right. Mondays are our days we get the ‘tedious’ jobs done. From my earlier post about our credit card processor calling you can see how many orders we have to deal with and that was just for 1 of our Yahoo Stores. Building a yahoo store is actually really easy but maintaining the store is what gets even seasoned veterans in trouble sometimes.
It’s very important to keep your cash flow moving from credit cards to product purchases. For us, we use American Express business cards because the minute you pay the bill online, you can use the credit. There isn’t a waiting time for the payment to go through, so it allows us to max our credit cards about 3-4 times each week. We try to put all of our purchases on the credit cards because our business debit card can only do 37 transactions each day, so if you are doing 40-50 sales/day there would be no catching up, ever.
Why would we use credit cards?
Well that my friend is an easy answer! We get a load of points usually used for airline tickets or hotels. If I could start over I would have signed up for an Alaska Airlines Credit Card. (If you get the business credit card you can have a limit of 1 Million miles/year rather than their low 100k limit on most of their cards).
We also have to use our debit card to process orders but try to only use the credit cards to get the points.
