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Purchase Confirmation Email

Purchase Confirmation Email

If you haven’t already optimized your purchase confirmation email, this is the time to start. These emails get very high open rates... 0 Comments | Read More »

Social Campaigns and SEO

Social Campaigns and SEO

Etailers still need to create, optimize and publish valuable content, managing it through the various relevant social and other mark... 0 Comments | Read More »

Social Media as a Revenue-Generating Platform

Social Media as a Revenue-Generating Platform

With 4 billion pieces of information shared on Facebook, 140 million Tweets and more than 3 billion searches conducted every day, et... 0 Comments | Read More »

Building Your Brand with Social Media

Building Your Brand with Social Media

Social media's popularity and use has greatly impacted brand marketing, as more consumers review products, relate customer experienc... 0 Comments | Read More »

Out-of-Stock Email Campaigns

Out-of-Stock Email Campaigns

Out-of-stock items damage your credibility and frustrate customers to no end. Make sure you’re not featuring out-of-stock products o... 0 Comments | Read More »

Monthly Page Performance Reviews

Monthly Page Performance Reviews

If you are not already doing so, implement a process where you review top and bottom performing pages each month. Check for spelling... 0 Comments | Read More »

Split Testing Made Easy

Split Testing Made Easy

Google Website Optimizer is a free service to conduct A/B tests. To utilize Website Optimizer for testing, you just need to insert ... 0 Comments | Read More »

Watch for Return Fraud

Watch for Return Fraud

Return fraud, including wardrobing, returns of merchandise purchased with stolen cards, and cross-merchant no-receipt returns, can b... 0 Comments | Read More »

Take Advantage of Color Psychology

Take Advantage of Color Psychology

Research has shown that certain colors come with associations — especially in the context of something else. You already subconsciou... 0 Comments | Read More »

Come Prepared for Venture Capital

Come Prepared for Venture Capital

It has become very inexpensive to launch an online business, especially an ecommerce business. You can try out a store relatively in... 0 Comments | Read More »

Try Multivariate Testing

Try Multivariate Testing

While A/B split testing is simple and useful, these techniques reveal their full power when examining multiple variables at once. Wi... 0 Comments | Read More »

Explore Social Bookmarking Sites

Explore Social Bookmarking Sites

Social bookmarking is a way for web users to organize, store, manage and search for bookmarks of resources online. Links can be disc... 0 Comments | Read More »

Use Heatmaps to Aid Conversion

Use Heatmaps to Aid Conversion

Heatmaps are an effective way to find out how customers really use a site. They're called heatmaps because the stronger or hotter th... 1 Comments | Read More »

Consider Drop Shipping to Increase Product Offering

Consider Drop Shipping to Increase Product Offering

Drop shipping allows merchants to offer many more products for sale than what might be feasible if that merchant had to inventory ev... 0 Comments | Read More »

User Generated Content

User Generated Content

User generated content is great for SEO. When customers write reviews or ask and answer questions about a site's products, they use ... 0 Comments | Read More »

Increase Conversions with Retargeting

Increase Conversions with Retargeting

Retargeting is the practice of exposing potential customers to either a greater frequency of online ads or to more specific online a... 0 Comments | Read More »

Reach New Markets With Fulfillment

Reach New Markets With Fulfillment

Online retailers can also use fulfillment services to expand their businesses to new markets without having to invest in infrastruct... 0 Comments | Read More »

Understand Investment Consequences

Understand Investment Consequences

If you are looking for venture capital, understand that investors will want high returns. Investors are primarily interested in bus... 0 Comments | Read More »

Don’t Overdo SEO

Don’t Overdo SEO

One of the most important, yet oft-ignored user experience factors when viewing a web page is its trustworthiness. Having links only... 0 Comments | Read More »

StumbleUpon Promotes Relevancy

StumbleUpon Promotes Relevancy

Finding relevant content is the goal of search engines. Normally, however, that requires the searcher to filter through pages of res... 0 Comments | Read More »

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