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Minimize Customer Complaints

Minimize Customer Complaints

Step Two: Send a follow-up email within a week of the customer receiving their product or service. Keep the email short, and en... 1 Comment | Read More »

Optimize Your HTML For Search Engines

Optimize Your HTML For Search Engines

SEO can be broken into two distinct areas – "onpage" factors and "off-page" factors. On-page factors include anything that you ... 1 Comment | Read More »

Optimizing HTML Code for Maximum SEO

Optimizing HTML Code for Maximum SEO

Overview Search engine optimization has come to the forefront in recent years as competition for search engine rankings increa... 1 Comment | Read More »

Pay-per-click Tools Maximize Your Time

Pay-per-click Tools Maximize Your Time

As a business owner and entrepreneur, you know that there are two things you can always use more of - money and time. While you... 0 Comments | Read More »

Seeing Stars on the Web

Seeing Stars on the Web

As awards show season gets under way, celebrity fashion will be receiving a tremendous amount of global press, even more so tha... 0 Comments | Read More »

SEO Report Card: Discountflies.com

SEO Report Card: Discountflies.com

Welcome back to another installment of “SEO Report Card.” Each month I assess the search engine optimization effectiveness of a... 5 Comments | Read More »

The Home Page: Putting Your Best Foot Forward

The Home Page: Putting Your Best Foot Forward

You never get a second chance at a first impression. Or so the saying goes. Perhaps that’s the reason that website home pages a... 0 Comments | Read More »

Your eCommerce Activities Could be Criminal

Your eCommerce Activities Could be Criminal

The online world is an interesting place today for many reasons. Remember the old western movies when the cowboys came into tow... 0 Comments | Read More »

An Introduction to CSS - Part 3

An Introduction to CSS - Part 3

Overview In our last two tutorials about Cascading Style Sheets, we covered how to apply styles to all instances of an HTML ta... 1 Comment | Read More »

Be Careful of the Number 1 Spot

Be Careful of the Number 1 Spot

Pay-Per-Click advertising works in an auction-based format, since there are a number of advertisers competing for the same keyw... 0 Comments | Read More »

Customer Service Focus - January 2006

Customer Service Focus - January 2006

As I have mentioned many times before, communication is the key to excellent customer service. One of the primary ways that mer... 0 Comments | Read More »

Encoding Images Using HTML

Encoding Images Using HTML

Overview One of the most basic HTML elements is the image tag, which is used to tell a browser to display an image on a webpag... 5 Comments | Read More »

Google Analytics Draws Industry Reaction

Google Analytics Draws Industry Reaction

On November 14, 2005 Google announced its free, hosted web analytics service. Based on the Urchin analytics platform, which Goo... 0 Comments | Read More »

HTML Email: Effectiveness Requires Planning

HTML Email: Effectiveness Requires Planning

Email can be an essential tool for every online retailer. Professional-looking emails instill confidence, build brand awareness... 0 Comments | Read More »

Order Management Software Saves Time, Reduces Errors

Order Management Software Saves Time, Reduces Errors

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” When Charles Dickens opened his classic A Tale of Two Cities with those... 8 Comments | Read More »

osCommerce Founder: Open-Source Encourages Collaboration

osCommerce Founder: Open-Source Encourages Collaboration

Harald Ponce de Leon had an idea to create an online shopping cart system that would serve as a guide to other ecommerce develo... 4 Comments | Read More »

Reaping Holiday Sales in January

Reaping Holiday Sales in January

So many online stores put all of their focus into attracting holiday shoppers during the end of the year that they overlook the... 1 Comment | Read More »

Relentlessimprovement.com Succeeds with Nutritional Supplements

Relentlessimprovement.com Succeeds with Nutritional Supplements

Peter Hitesman was a loan officer for a banking institution in what he would consider his past life. It was a job that required... 0 Comments | Read More »

Search Engine Optimization: Avoid Complex URLs

Search Engine Optimization: Avoid Complex URLs

Search engines tend to have problems fully indexing dynamic websites (in other words, sites that are hooked up to a database of... 1 Comment | Read More »

SEO Report Card: Balancedlifeproducts.com

SEO Report Card: Balancedlifeproducts.com

Welcome to “SEO Report Card”, where I assess how well search engine optimized a selected ecommerce site is. For this first inst... 0 Comments | Read More »

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