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16 New Mobile Productivity Apps in October 2011

16 New Mobile Productivity Apps in October 2011

The month of October brought virtual assistant apps, cloud storage apps, and several to-do and time-management apps. Here is ... 0 Comments | Read More »

13 Crowdfunding Sites for Social-Cause Entrepreneurs

13 Crowdfunding Sites for Social-Cause Entrepreneurs

Crowdfunding websites help entrepreneurs fund small businesses with financing from the community. For social-cause entrepreneur... 3 Comments | Read More »

SEOmoz CEO on Raising Venture Capital

SEOmoz CEO on Raising Venture Capital

There's no more prominent search-engine-optimization company than SEOmoz. It offers tools for managing search engine rankings ... 1 Comment | Read More »

October 2011 Top Ten: Our Most Popular Posts

October 2011 Top Ten: 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 »

StumbleUpon: Social Bookmarking Traffic Generator

StumbleUpon: Social Bookmarking Traffic Generator

StumbleUpon is a social bookmarking tool that allows users to share a website with others in their network. People use the tool... 0 Comments | Read More »

5 Pointers for Using Facebook for Your Ecommerce Business

5 Pointers for Using Facebook for Your Ecommerce Business

Many small retailers struggle with using Facebook to grow their business. Some have created Facebook pages, but are not seeing ... 3 Comments | Read More »

Website Showcase: Designing With the Fold

Website Showcase: Designing With the Fold

In “Designing ‘Above the Fold’ Necessary?,” I offered my thoughts as to how the 600-pixel top "fold" should be viewed today. I ... 0 Comments | Read More »

Navigation: Your Biggest On-Site SEO Asset

Navigation: Your Biggest On-Site SEO Asset

A site's navigational links can help its search engine optimization. Links pass "link popularity," little votes of value, from ... 0 Comments | Read More »

Pay-Per-Click Ads: 5 Tips for Higher Clicks this Holiday Season

Pay-Per-Click Ads: 5 Tips for Higher Clicks this Holiday Season

Google’s paid-click revenue grew by an astounding 28 percent last quarter, thanks in part to a 5 percent rise in click prices. ... 0 Comments | Read More »

Engage Online Customers with SoLoMo

Engage Online Customers with SoLoMo

Borrowing a strategy and a catch phrase from mobile applications, marketers can use social, local, and mobile (SoLoMo) promotio... 1 Comment | Read More »

Understanding Affiliate Marketing

Understanding Affiliate Marketing

Editor's Note: We welcome Carolyn Tang Kmet as our newest contributor. She is director of affiliate marketing for Groupon, the ... 2 Comments | Read More »

10 App Marketplaces for Open Source Shopping Carts

10 App Marketplaces for Open Source Shopping Carts

Many open source shopping carts can be customized with extensions or modules, created by an active developer community. Here ... 0 Comments | Read More »

Entrepreneur Describes Selling an Ecommerce Business

Entrepreneur Describes Selling an Ecommerce Business

Many merchants dream of building a successful ecommerce business and then selling it. Shirley Tan, the founder and former owner... 3 Comments | Read More »

Ecommerce Companies Snag Venture Capital

Ecommerce Companies Snag Venture Capital

While venture capital funding has generally been in the doldrums this year, a few ecommerce software companies — and even some ... 1 Comment | Read More »

Admiring Apple's ‘Questions & Answers’ Feature

Admiring Apple's ‘Questions & Answers’ Feature

Editor's Note: Each month contributor Louis Camassa — a seasoned ecommerce developer, and the author of our "Tips for Newcomers... 1 Comment | Read More »

9 Tools for Mobile Blogging

9 Tools for Mobile Blogging

The world is moving toward an increasingly mobile lifestyle, and blogging is no different. No longer do you have to be constrai... 2 Comments | Read More »

Designing Web Forms for Better Conversions; 5 Tips

Designing Web Forms for Better Conversions; 5 Tips

Web forms are the final hurdle shoppers and site visitors must traverse before registering for a newsletter or making a purchas... 1 Comment | Read More »

14 Online Resources to Help Start a Small Business

14 Online Resources to Help Start a Small Business

If you are a discouraged job hunter or someone who has always wanted to be an entrepreneur, you will be pleased to know that th... 0 Comments | Read More »

5 Simple Ways to Promote Multi-Item Orders

5 Simple Ways to Promote Multi-Item Orders

Thanksgiving has nearly disappeared at many retail outlets, as companies push customers into holiday shopping even before Hallo... 2 Comments | Read More »

SEO: Convert More Before Driving More

SEO: Convert More Before Driving More

Many organic search marketers focus on increasing rankings and traffic to a site. What happens to that traffic once it hits the... 0 Comments | Read More »

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