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Analyzing Magento Community Edition

If your new to the ecommerce industry and haven’t heard of Magento, get acquainted! Magento Community Edition (an open source ecomme... 7 Comments | Read More »

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Back in October, Google made an update that blocks website analytic systems from tracking Google search terms used by visitors to yo... 2 Comments | Read More »

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Why NOT to Start an eCommerce Business – Part 2

Welcome to Part 2 of Why NOT to Start an eCommerce Business. That’s right, 10 reasons why you should walk away from investing in a b... 0 Comments | Read More »

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Why NOT to Start an eCommerce Business – Part 1

In working to help develop eCommerce websites for small businesses, I have seen a few successes and failures over the last 12 years.... 10 Comments | Read More »

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5 Quick and Easy Methods to Get and Keep Customers

Optimizing conversion rates can sometimes seem like a daunting task. You know that you’ve got a good product to sell, but how can y... 0 Comments | Read More »

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Payment Gateways, Merchant Processors, and Bank Accounts

An often overlooked and under analyzed segment of building your eCommerce business is the backend processing of your orders. Entrepr... 2 Comments | Read More »

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Google’s New +1 Button and the Demise of Google

Yesterday, Google announced the launch of their +1 button, which will allow Google Profile owners to “+1”, or share/save their recom... 1 Comments | Read More »

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Where To Start With eCommerce Marketing

So you’ve launched your new website, and are finished working out all the post-launch kinks (at least most of them!). Next steps; br... 4 Comments | Read More »

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eCommerce Site Launching Checklist

You can never do enough testing when launching a new website. Then again, you do need to launch the website, so you can't test forev... 4 Comments | Read More »

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How to Manage Your Web Designer

A web designer should be focused on what they do best: designing! However, many designers get so caught up in the creative process t... 0 Comments | Read More »

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Top 5 Outsourcing Websites

Save your time for important work, and outsource your boring data entry tasks to the masses of people around the world eager to do i... 2 Comments | Read More »

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Photo Contest Advertising

You've tried PPC, shopping comparison, email newsletters, SEO, affiliate marketing, and a few other advertising avenues, but are loo... 0 Comments | Read More »

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Top eCommerce Features

When evaluating eCommerce systems, I guarantee you will become overloaded with all the bell's and whistles included with the softwa... 3 Comments | Read More »

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eCommerce Development Timeline

When you work with a full-service eCommerce development company to manage the production of your new website project, make sure you ... 0 Comments | Read More »

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Top Tips for eCommerce Customer Service

So, you are building up your sales volume, and are acquiring new customers at a break-neck pace; congratulations! Now, make sure y... 5 Comments | Read More »

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Ecommerce Website Backup Strategy

If you are like nearly every other small business owner, you are hosting your website on a shared or dedicated server which is manag... 0 Comments | Read More »

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Optimize Product Pages & Increase Sales

Whether you are a planning on developing a new ecommerce website, or refreshing an existing site, focus on providing valuable and de... 2 Comments | Read More »

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Ask This Before You Pick Ecommerce Firm II

Let's face it, many ecommerce providers will tell you they have the best solution to meet your needs, however, once you start scratc... 2 Comments | Read More »

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Ask This Before You Pick Ecommerce Firm

Let's face it, many ecommerce providers will tell you they have the best solution to meet your needs, however, once you start scratc... 2 Comments | Read More »

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How to Succeed as a New Ecommerce Entrepreneur

During the last ten years, I have been fortunate enough to play a part in the development of hundreds of websites. Many established ... 1 Comments | Read More »

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