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11 Personal Gestures to Turn Casual Buyers into Lifelong Customers

11 Personal Gestures to Turn Casual Buyers into Lifelong Customers

Developing loyal customers isn’t always expensive or difficult for businesses with small marketing budgets. It may sound cliché... 1 Comment | Read More »

Cross-border Ecommerce Can Reduce Closeouts, Clearance

Cross-border Ecommerce Can Reduce Closeouts, Clearance

Seasonal or discontinued products sitting in inventory limit cash flow and may make it more difficult for merchants to invest i... 0 Comments | Read More »

How to Sell on Marketplaces without Harming your Store's Brand

How to Sell on Marketplaces without Harming your Store's Brand

In "Third-Party Marketplaces: What Merchants Should Know" and "Marketplaces: How to Sell More in 2013," we addressed tactics — ... 0 Comments | Read More »

Blaming Credit Card Associations for Rate Changes

Blaming Credit Card Associations for Rate Changes

Visa, MasterCard, and Discover generally change rates and terms in April and October. However, they can make changes at other t... 0 Comments | Read More »

Instagram's 'Photos of You' New Sharing Feature

Instagram's 'Photos of You' New Sharing Feature

Popular photo-sharing app Instagram recently introduced a new sharing feature called "Photos of You," which allows users to tag... 0 Comments | Read More »

Optimizing an Ecommerce Site for Mobile Shopping

Optimizing an Ecommerce Site for Mobile Shopping

Improving how quickly a page loads and how easy it is to use that page once it has loaded might be one of the most important th... 0 Comments | Read More »

Google Analytics: 5 Custom Ecommerce Events to Track

Google Analytics: 5 Custom Ecommerce Events to Track

A friend recently asked me about event tracking on his new ecommerce site. He wondered if I had a comprehensive list of events ... 0 Comments | Read More »

Adding Alternative Payment Methods to your Online Store

Adding Alternative Payment Methods to your Online Store

Many established merchants offer payment methods in addition to credit cards. The most popular alternative by far is PayPal, bu... 2 Comments | Read More »

10 Free Website Speed Tests

10 Free Website Speed Tests

Before your customers enter your ecommerce store, they’re waiting for it to load. Page load time is the lapsed time between the... 2 Comments | Read More »

5 Quick Tips for Shipping Internationally

5 Quick Tips for Shipping Internationally

Cross-border online sales may account for a significant portion of total ecommerce orders in just the next few years, according... 5 Comments | Read More »

Case Study: Shopping for Frisbee Golf Disks on an iPhone

Case Study: Shopping for Frisbee Golf Disks on an iPhone

In "Mobile Commerce Grows 31 Percent in Q1," Contributing Editor Armando Roggio addressed the rapid growth of mobile commerce. ... 0 Comments | Read More »

Reading List: Vendio's Mike Effle

Reading List: Vendio's Mike Effle

In “Reading List,” we ask ecommerce professionals to name some of their favorite books and blogs and tell us why they read th... 0 Comments | Read More »

Using Vine Videos for your Ecommerce Business

Using Vine Videos for your Ecommerce Business

Vine is a new iOS app that allows users to record six-second, looping videos — called "vines" — on their iPhones, iPod Touches,... 0 Comments | Read More »

Ecommerce Trends Point to Bright Future

Ecommerce Trends Point to Bright Future

Over the past five years, ecommerce has grown at a pace at least twice as fast as total retail sales and that trend will contin... 0 Comments | Read More »

Third-party Marketplaces: What Merchants Should Know

Third-party Marketplaces: What Merchants Should Know

Many online merchants have embraced third-party marketplaces. They've been seduced by promises of easy revenue growth and enabl... 0 Comments | Read More »

Mobile Commerce Grows 31 Percent in Q1

Mobile Commerce Grows 31 Percent in Q1

Mobile ecommerce sales rose 31 percent in the first quarter of 2013 as tablet-fueled, couch commerce is rapidly becoming the mo... 0 Comments | Read More »

Implementing the Online Sales Tax Bill

Implementing the Online Sales Tax Bill

The possibility of Congress passing legislation that requires online retailers to collect sales taxes has been discussed for ye... 0 Comments | Read More »

15 Easy Mobile App Solutions

15 Easy Mobile App Solutions

Mobile apps can be easy to make. With the variety of mobile app builders to choose from, even non-coders can build their own mo... 0 Comments | Read More »

Lessons Learned: Trusting your Gut to Ecommerce Success

Lessons Learned: Trusting your Gut to Ecommerce Success

Imagine being told that you’ll never have a job or children and you’ll be on disability for the rest of your life. That’s what ... 6 Comments | Read More »

Ecommerce Search Marketing Evolves

Ecommerce Search Marketing Evolves

A few years ago, small ecommerce business owners invested a good part of their marketing budgets on search engine optimization.... 5 Comments | Read More »

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