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A Day In The Life Of Running A Shopping Cart Platform
My name is Rick Wilson and I'm the President/COO of Miva Merchant a long time leader in the Small and Medium Sized Business Shopping... 1 Comments | Read More »
Learning To Get Out Of The Way
Every year we hold an annual e-commerce conference here in San Diego in late February or early March. It's an important event for bo... 0 Comments | Read More »
The Biggest Mistake Made by Online Merchants
About an hour ago, I needed to order a bunch of hardware parts from Dell to beef up one of our development server environments. I'm ... 2 Comments | Read More »
Free Shipping: The Top eCommerce Incentive This Holiday Season?
This holiday season, it seems there is more attention on the free shipping offers of internet retailers as a promotional tool than a... 3 Comments | Read More »
Get Your Shopping Channel Campaigns Holiday-Ready
To help you gain more visibility and maximize your exposure on the shopping channels, I've assembled the most important tips & t... 1 Comments | Read More »
Writers Block, Marketing and Social Media
So it's been a bit since I've written a blog post, and as usual that was never intended. It started with being on vacation in Augus... 0 Comments | Read More »
Sustaining Growth through eCommerce SMEs
Recently there was some good economic news out of the US for a change. Retail sales for the month of September 2010 rose slightly an... 2 Comments | Read More »
Retail is Looking Up this Holiday Season
Listening to NPR this morning, I was pleased to hear confirmation that shoppers will be willing to spend more during the upcoming h... 1 Comments | Read More »
Re-inventing Innovation in China
Last week I had the pleasure of attending the World Economic Forum’s annual global business gathering in Asia. Known as the ‘Summer ... 0 Comments | Read More »
Now and Next for China: Economic Snapshot
In the last couple of weeks, there have been a couple of economic news items from China which may be of interest to readers. China ... 0 Comments | Read More »
Bing Shopping is Finally Here!
Formerly known as Bing Cashback, Microsoft has launched its long-awaited Bing Shopping. Bing Shopping is a new, free version of the ... 4 Comments | Read More »
How To Import From China Part IV
Over the past two decades I have worked in both China and the West for some of the biggest multinational companies. My company today... 1 Comments | Read More »
How to Import from China Part III
Over the last few posts I have been giving readers my thoughts on how to get the best results when and sourcing products from China.... 0 Comments | Read More »
Before you Embark on the Shopping Engines
If you're a merchant trying to compete on the shopping engines, you should first make sure you are selling your products on a qualit... 1 Comments | Read More »
Put a SLAPP on business reputation
Company finds negative information or reviews about its business online. Company reacts and sues. This scenario has repeated itself... 0 Comments | Read More »
Going Beyond Trust Seals - How To Humanize Your Online Store
The most important thing to consider when designing your ecommerce site is to convey a sense of trust and competence to your custome... 3 Comments | Read More »
How to Import from China Part II
In my last post, I took the opportunity to set out some of my tips and thoughts as to how to get the most successful experience from... 0 Comments | Read More »
Don’t Be a Victim of Your Own Success
If you own a business what you want most is to be successful because success is a good thing, right? Of course it is. But while yo... 0 Comments | Read More »
How to Import from China
As part of my business at www.dhgate.com, I make it a point to constantly keep in touch with my customers and clients, whether they ... 6 Comments | Read More »
Low Hanging Fruit - How To Massively Increase Your Sales
Since the beginning of The Great Recession, I've noticed something dramatic happening in the e-commerce space, especially for smalle... 3 Comments | Read More »

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