Review: SearchFit Combines Storefront with SEO
A good e-commerce system offers an easy way to set up and manage an online store and makes…
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PaySimple Helps Service E-tailers with Billing
If your business involves providing a regular service, such as dog-walking, housekeeping or massage, or you have a…
Letting Shoppers Have Their Say: Adding Customer Reviews
While glossy product images and detailed descriptions can help promote your company and its products, nothing says “buy…
Creating Content that Turns Browsers into Buyers
While the products you sell are clearly the focus of your Web shop, and likely your energy, the…
iStorez Ties E-Mail Marketing to Social Shopping
Over the past year we have seen a huge spike in new shopping portals and comparison-shopping engines. Each…
Three-for-All: Affordable Selling Services for Digital Goods
When selling digital goods online, most merchants tend to invest as much time and effort as those selling…
NetSuite Hones In on E-Commerce
NetSuite has long had storefront capabilities. In fact, the San Mateo, Calif.-based company claims to have 1,500 e-commerce…
AdSense Profile: Making Money on Google
(Editor’s Note: This is the second in a series updating how several popular affiliate programs work — and…
Does Amazon Want to be King of the PPC Jungle?
It appears Amazon may want to ultimately become king of the shopping search engine jungle as it recently…
Javien Unveils Payment Gateway Tailored for New Media
Javien Digital Payment Solutions today unveiled the Javien New Media Payment Gateway, a hosted transaction-payment gateway tailored specifically…
Add Live Chat with Social Shopping App for E-tailers
This week in e-commerce news, a startup provides an interactive co-browsing application that e-tailers can offer on their sites…
Rescuing Sales from Abandoned Shopping Carts
Results of the e-tailing group’s 6th Annual Merchant Survey (1Q ’07) indicated that 75 percent of the surveyed…
The Good News About Bad Reviews
Many small e-tailers worry bad reviews posted online by unhappy customers will seriously hurt their business. The truth…
Convert Web Store Visitors to Action Figures
You’ve spent the Adwords or Adcenter dollars to attract visitors to your site — and it worked. Now…
10 Holiday Tactics to Improve Sales in 10 Weeks
It’s the 10th day of the 10th month, so it’s only appropriate that today we outline 10 tactics…
Overcoming Specific Challenges of B2B Web Shops
The Internet is the world’s marketplace. Nearly anything you could ever imagine, want, or need is available with…
Web Retail All About Customer Experience
A report released today ranking the top 100 online retailers for customer satisfaction finds that the customer’s experience…
The Day After: Many Happy Returns
Article courtesy of ECommerce-Guide.com. First there was Black Friday. Now that we’ve entered the Internet age, there’s Cyber…
Tools for E-Commerce Success
As small e-commerce shops mature and establish themselves as viable ongoing businesses, many are experiencing the growing pains…
Tis the Season: Prep for Holiday Rush
Though most of us lament the onslaught of holiday commercials and merchandising before Thanksgiving, for Web shop owners,…
Selling to the Teen Shopper
Courtesy of ECommerce-Guide.com When it comes to shopping online, teenage users are a contradiction: Most teens don’t have…
“Remind Me” Button Aims to Retain Customers
There’s Buy It Now, Add to Cart and now a new button that you may begin seeing on…
The ‘Mystery Shopping’ Report
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UPS Delivers For Internet Heavies
Much of UPS’s business is predicated on timing, and the shipping giant is once again trying to deliver…
Online Shoppers Wary of Online Shopping
As online retailers are gearing up for an expected deluge of business this holiday season, shoppers are fretting…
SAP Gaining Ground in Merchant Applications
Think Oracle’s winning bid for Retek over SAP didn’t rattle the No. 1 applications maker’s cage? Think again.…
Social Shopping at Yahoo
Yahoo Shopping introduced “social commerce” in time for the holiday shopping season. Yahoo (Quote, Chart) calls its new…
PayPal, Google Part of NetSuite Upgrades
NetSuite, Inc., developers of on-demand business management software for small and mid-sized businesses, today announced that NetSuite has…
Merchant Secrets for Sales Conversion – Part 2
As detailed in Part 1 of this series, merchants are now focused more than ever on their site’s…
Merchant Secrets for Driving Online Sales Conversion – Part 1
The concept of “conversion” is one that online merchants live and die by. An online store’s conversion rate,…
Everest Attempts to Climb Higher With New Release
Many successful small businesses are happy to stay small businesses. After all, if you’re profitable and have loyal…
HostedSupport.com Announces ezSupport for eBay
HostedSupport.com, a provider of automated online customer support solutions for Web businesses, Tuesday announced ezSupport for eBay, its…
SAP Takes Triversity For Retail
Proving that it isn’t going to sit on its laurels while rival Oracle snaps up applications specialists, SAP…
Smart Marketing Helps Plus Size Retailer Grow
In the mid ’90s, entrepreneur Anne Kelly saw that larger women were having a hard time finding attractive…
Trek’s Site Becomes Tour de Force
When the Trek Bikes Web site switched its software platform, it made an unusual change. The well-known seller…
iCode’s Got You Covered From Storefront to Back Office
Courtesy of SmallBusinessComputing.com. To run your business efficiently, you must live by the credo that no application is…
Outsourcing is the Name of the Game at French Toast
As a leading supplier of school uniforms, French Toast sells to a nearly innumerable array of customers. The…
Beauty E-Tailer Uses Blogs, Samples to Stand Out
When Jeff Binder chose his e-commerce platform, his chief concern was finding an integrated application with all the…
Satisfied Online Shoppers Adding Up
Online sales are booming. But even the top-grossing e-tailers may be leaving money on the table, a study…
Lillian Vernon Redesign Tailors to User Preferences
It’s a challenge that confronts most online merchants sooner or later: the dreaded site redesign. This massive undertaking…
Fraud Concerns No Match For eCommerce Growth
The growing threat of phishing attacks and increased incidences of identify theft weren’t enough to keep consumers from…
Search Engine Marketing Explained
Buying keyword search terms on popular search engines like Google and Yahoo has become an important part —…
Build, Publish and Analyze Your Own Online Surveys
Surveys have always played a critical role in developing marketing strategy and measuring user/customer response. However, creating, managing…
Ten Tips for Getting Customers to Up the Order
You could call Lauren Freedman a site doctor. As president of the E-Tailing Group, a Chicago-based e-commerce consultancy,…
Generic Search Terms Drive Most Buying
Challenging the notion that online retailers and marketers should employ trademark-specific keywords, a new study by comScore and…
Web Analytics – Who’s Mining the Store?
At this point in the evolution of e-commerce, virtually all online businesses have some form of Web analytics…
Making an E-Commerce Checklist
Is it me, or has this year flown by? It’s time to finish up the year’s major projects…
No Profitable Customer Left Behind
Watching the Republican National Convention, I realized online marketers could learn a lot from politicians. Like voters, customers…
E-Business Integration: It Ain’t Over Yet
Bellwether e-business REI (Recreational Equipment Inc.) has made a lot of effort to tear down the wall between…
ChannelAdvisor Customization Offers Improved eBay Selling
Enabling shoppers to customize their sought-after products can be a great way to increase sales and boost customer…