eCommerce Tycoon

**Roger Fred** · 02-11-2011, 11:25 AM

What do you think, what are the worst business practice or techniques are adopted by the small business owners or entrepreneurs? How they should avoid it? What are your ideas?

**dWhite** · 02-11-2011, 11:39 AM

False or misleading advertising, and also poor customer support.

**benicio** · 02-11-2011, 09:31 PM

bad products that don't satisfy

**radhika** · 02-13-2011, 01:45 PM

1. Buying email lists
2. Buying backlinks on spammy sites

They need to do some research on the internet before using a technique for their online business.

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**rhonda.leefoon** · 02-14-2011, 01:00 AM

false advertising and dont kip the promise

**che09** · 02-14-2011, 11:47 PM

False Advertising,Products that aren't satisfying.

**jedz** · 02-15-2011, 10:47 AM

poor customer service and management.

**Plexihost** · 02-15-2011, 12:01 PM

Poor customer service probably ranks #1.

**gotlivechat** · 02-16-2011, 08:39 PM

Definitely poor customer service. And amazingly some very large companies have some of the worst support services yet seemingly stay in business year after year. I guess if you're products are in demand enough, you can get away with bad support ?!?

**forumaddicted** · 02-17-2011, 11:59 AM

less customer support, less employee satisfaction and some other like no patience at all. these are issues i think small business owner should keep in mind when doing business.

**Plexihost** · 02-17-2011, 12:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by forumaddicted

less customer support, less employee satisfaction and some other like no patience at all. these are issues i think small business owner should keep in mind when doing business.

Large businesses have the same issues, so it's certainly not just with small businesses.

Some of the largest businesses have absolutely terrible customer support and sometimes it makes you really wonder how they continue to gain customers. A large advertising budget is working well for them, obviously.

**tamarindcandy** · 02-17-2011, 02:29 PM

JCPenney. They used link farms and when Google finally found out, down they dropped in pageranks. Way down--buried in no time at all.

**mav77** · 02-20-2011, 05:28 AM

One thing I have learned is dont cry too much about lost money, mistakes you made that caused it etc. Just write it off dont obsess about it. I spent 10k in 1999 on a failed marketing business online I just moved on to the next venture. Wife and I lost at least 10k in a loan business a few years back, same thing we just wrote it off and carried on to the next days in our lives . Money can be replaced. As long as you have your health, and your family, that will keep you strong

**deneeshbarosa** · 03-02-2011, 01:24 AM

When you go in for an IT job interview, you definitely require to make yourself stand out, because there's probably several other candidates vying for that same position.

**usrecord** · 03-02-2011, 01:41 PM

Accidentally redirected the site to other url that let the site down for 4 hours.

**Vicky.Talore** · 03-05-2011, 02:59 AM

The most important part in any business is Vision. They should be more focused on new innovative business ideas to make their products/services attractive than usual.