Practical eCommerce Articles
Fans and Followers: The Social Media Numbers Game
Momentum is a valuable force. A business owner that has customer-generated momentum is in a desirable position. Author Malcol... 0 Comments | Read More »
The PeC Review: Filtrbox for Reputation Management
An increasingly social Internet has transformed Facebooking moms, tweeting trend-followers, and Digging teens into powerful bra... 1 Comment | Read More »
Cart of the Week: Open Mind Commerce
There are more than 350 online shopping carts. And each week we feature one, interviewing both the cart's developer and a custo... 0 Comments | Read More »
Where the PCI Security Council Goes Wrong
While conducting interviews with numerous PCI compliance experts for a series of articles on Practical eCommerce, one thing abo... 2 Comments | Read More »
Ecommerce Know-How: Product Videos Easy to Produce, Inexpensive
Ecommerce videos drive sales. Lars Hundley, president of Clean Air Gardening, is confident of that. “We typically get up to... 4 Comments | Read More »
Lessons Learned: Fairytale Brownies Relies on Catalogs, Empowers Employees
"Lessons Learned" is a series where we ask ecommerce business executives to share their experiences and advice. For this instal... 1 Comment | Read More »
Booklist: McAfee VP Stuart McClure
In "Booklist" we ask Internet professionals about the books and blogs they read, and why. For this list, we asked Stuart McCl... 0 Comments | Read More »
PCI Exec Suggests Payment Outsourcing for Smaller Merchants
Editor’s note: Payment Card Industry compliance is a requirement for virtually all ecommerce merchants. But it’s also a compl... 0 Comments | Read More »
Chart of the Week: Barriers to Online Holiday Shopping
During the holidays, ecommerce merchants have advantages over their brick and mortar counterparts. Convenience and round the c... 4 Comments | Read More »
Miva Merchant Launches In-house Hosted Platform
The evolution of Miva Merchant continues. The shopping cart was first launched in 1995 as "HTML Script." It then renamed itsel... 3 Comments | Read More »
Quick Query: SocialGrub Founder on Social Media Tools
Social media has become mainstream and businesses are increasingly turning to it to interact with their customers and boost the... 0 Comments | Read More »
The PeC Review: Crucial Webhosting Offers Value and Service
Most small-to-midsized online retailers don’t own their own web servers. Instead,these companies rent space on servers at data... 0 Comments | Read More »
Cart of the Week: Shop a la Cart
There are more than 350 online shopping carts. And each week we feature one, interviewing both the cart's developer and a custo... 0 Comments | Read More »
SEO: Link-building Opportunities
Link building is an ever-changing landscape. This is because the search engines make changes to their algorithms to thwart arti... 7 Comments | Read More »
Lessons Learned: Boyd Badten of PrintingForLess.com
"Lessons Learned" is a series where we ask ecommerce business executives to share their experiences and advice. For this instal... 1 Comment | Read More »
Accessibility: How Many Disabled Web Users Are There?
Ecommerce merchants spend a lot of time thinking about statistics. They try to gauge who is visiting their website, what produc... 1 Comment | Read More »
Ecommerce Know-How: Think Negative to Realize Positive Holiday Sales Growth
Two recent studies on holiday ecommerce spending provide important insights for small, online merchants wanting to achieve posi... 1 Comment | Read More »
Pay-per-click Report Card: BraDiva.com Managing Small Ad Budget
BraDiva.com is a small ecommerce company run by two entrepreneurs who enjoy sports. The company's product line consists of bra... 0 Comments | Read More »
Chart of the Week: Reasons for Abandoned Carts Vary
Shopping cart abandonment is gradually increasing, according to research conducted by SeeWhy, a firm that offers abandonment re... 4 Comments | Read More »
The PeC Review: WinBuyer Puts Competitors' Prices on Your Pages
By some estimates, 94 percent of online shoppers will invest at least some time comparing prices before they make a buying deci... 3 Comments | Read More »