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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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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