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Streamline Sales for Holidays

Streamline Sales for Holidays

2011 holiday sales revenues were better than last year, as sales increased through different channels. Shoppers are increasingly doi... 0 Comments | Read More »

Know Your Top Affiliates

Know Your Top Affiliates

It is important to track your top 10 affiliates. However, don’t just focus on who they are. Focus on what percentage of revenue th... 0 Comments | Read More »

Create Product Interest on a Pin Board

Create Product Interest on a Pin Board

Pinterest is a visually-oriented social sharing site that is gaining a lot of traction. Merchants that want to connect with this ver... 0 Comments | Read More »

Increase Sales During Slow Months

Increase Sales During Slow Months

For many online retailers, the month of January is a slow one. One way that merchants can still cash in on a slow month is to offer... 0 Comments | Read More »

The Importance of Title Tags

The Importance of Title Tags

Search engine optimization professionals universally agree that title tags are the most influential on-page element. SEOmoz recently... 0 Comments | Read More »

Add Payment Options to Increase Sales

Add Payment Options to Increase Sales

The type of cards that merchants accept for payment can affect cart-abandonment rates, and many consumers expect payment options oth... 0 Comments | Read More »

Include Social Buttons on Your Site

Include Social Buttons on Your Site

Including social buttons in the right pages and at the right stages of the conversion funnel is key to increasing consumers' social ... 0 Comments | Read More »

Segment Your List to Increase Conversion

Segment Your List to Increase Conversion

Email segmentation is simply the idea of organizing email-marketing lists so that each group of recipients receives a relevant, even... 0 Comments | Read More »

Social Reviews More Common

Social Reviews More Common

Product reviews and ratings have changed in the social media era. Not too many years ago, producing ratings and reviews were almost ... 0 Comments | Read More »

Re-engage Dormant Subscribers

Re-engage Dormant Subscribers

For merchants with established ecommerce sites, maintaining healthy email open rates and click-through rates can be a challenge. It ... 0 Comments | Read More »

Self-host Videos for SEO

Self-host Videos for SEO

Everyone who clicks to watch your self-hosted video will land on your website. If you are hosting your video tutorials on YouTube, ... 0 Comments | Read More »

Increase Speed to Increase Conversions

Increase Speed to Increase Conversions

Site speed affects conversion rates. A one second delay in page load time decreases conversions by 7 percent. Graphics compression ... 0 Comments | Read More »

Focus Email on the Individual

Focus Email on the Individual

The most important thing about email delivery is remembering that there's actually a human on the other end of that mail client. You... 0 Comments | Read More »

Drop Shipping Saves Time

Drop Shipping Saves Time

In a drop shipping arrangement, the retailer does not receive, stack, store, pull, pack, or ship products. In a startup ecommerce bu... 0 Comments | Read More »

Use Social Buttons

Use Social Buttons

If your product pages don’t include share buttons for the big three — Facebook, Twitter and Google+ — you’re ignoring one of the mos... 0 Comments | Read More »

QR Code Campaigns

QR Code Campaigns

Quick Response (QR) codes continue to gain momentum in mobile commerce. As the holidays approach, a number of companies have launche... 0 Comments | Read More »

Offer a Mobile Version of Email Campaigns

Offer a Mobile Version of Email Campaigns

For this holiday season, consumers will increasingly use mobile devices to read their emails. If you have a mostly image-based email... 0 Comments | Read More »

Creative Subject Lines

Creative Subject Lines

Subject lines can be the most crucial element of any email campaign. If a recipient is not interested enough to open an email, then ... 0 Comments | Read More »

Know Crowdfunding’s Limits

Know Crowdfunding’s Limits

The majority of crowdfunding sites cater to one-time creative or charitable projects, not ongoing businesses. Most of the projects r... 0 Comments | Read More »

Post-purchase Emails

Post-purchase Emails

A good strategy to drive repeat purchases should be to look at post-purchase remarketing to reconnect with your new customers when t... 0 Comments | Read More »

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