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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... 1 Comment | 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 »
3 Google Product Feed Mistakes
Google Shopping has provided a good return on investment for many merchants. To achieve even better performance and higher sal... 0 Comments | Read More »
Understanding YouTube's Redesign of Channels
YouTube recently announced major design changes to its channel interface. YouTube cited three reasons for the changes: Increa... 0 Comments | Read More »
5 Simple Ways to Make Great Product Videos
In "Learning from Infomercials for Product Demonstration," my article last month, I discussed the importance of product demonst... 1 Comment | Read More »
Managing the Google Affiliate Network Closure
The most significant development in the affiliate industry recently is Google’s announcement that it will be shutting down its ... 0 Comments | Read More »
7 Ways to Improve a Customer’s Shipping Experience
Shipping can be one of the most stressful parts of an online transaction. The customer has already paid for a product, but does... 3 Comments | Read More »
April 2013 Top 10: Our Most Popular Posts
Each month we compile a list of the ten most popular articles we published that month, based on the number of page views. Here ... 0 Comments | Read More »
Facebook Changes Layout of Mobile App
Facebook recently changed the Pages layout in its Apple iOS mobile app. The reason for the change, according to Facebook, is th... 0 Comments | Read More »
16 New Productivity Apps in April 2013
The month of April brought an all-in-one app for your cloud storage accounts, a Facebook client, a Tumblr app, a personal assis... 0 Comments | Read More »
3 Important Mobile Commerce Trends
Tablet-based purchases, an explosion in video watching, and shopping activity of men are among the hottest mobile commerce tren... 0 Comments | Read More »
How to Monitor, Prevent Fulfillment Errors
Ecommerce companies typically focus on acquiring traffic and selling a wide range of products that shoppers will actually buy. ... 0 Comments | Read More »
Reading List: Rama Ramakrishnan of CQuotient
In “Reading List,” we ask ecommerce professionals to name some of their favorite books and blogs, and tell us why they read t... 1 Comment | Read More »
6 Small-business Personalization Strategies
A personalized shopping experience can increase conversions. There are many sophisticated personalization platforms that help ... 0 Comments | Read More »

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