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Accessibility: How Many Disabled Web Users Are There?

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... 2 Comments | Read More »

Conversion: 10 Advanced Techniques to Turn Shoppers Into Buyers

Conversion: 10 Advanced Techniques to Turn Shoppers Into Buyers

If you are like most online retailers, roughly 97 out of every 100 visitors leave your site without buying anything. You can sp... 6 Comments | Read More »

Top Ten Low Cost Ways to Improve Site Usability

Top Ten Low Cost Ways to Improve Site Usability

I get called by online retailers very frequently who have done significant work in SEO, are driving quite a bit of traffic to t... 6 Comments | Read More »

Chart of the Week:  Facebook Fans Page Usage by Merchants

Chart of the Week: Facebook Fans Page Usage by Merchants

This week’s “Chart of the Week” is a snapshot of the Facebook Fans page usage of five ecommerce merchants previously profiled b... 1 Comment | Read More »

Payments-R-Us and Page Mage Introduced; MailChimp Announces New Features

Payments-R-Us and Page Mage Introduced; MailChimp Announces New Features

MailChimp, the self-service email marketing firm, has announced new features to its platform. Page Mage, a third-party eBay li... 0 Comments | Read More »

Conversion: 15 Reasons Why Consumers Will Leave Your eCommerce Site

Conversion: 15 Reasons Why Consumers Will Leave Your eCommerce Site

Editor's Note: We welcome Darpan Munjal as our newest contributor. Munjal is president of Chicago-based LeapMatrix, which consu... 10 Comments | Read More »

Google Analytics

Google Analytics "Inaccurate," Expert Says

Many ecommerce merchants use Google Analytics to track visitor activity on their websites. But there are other analytics firms,... 6 Comments | Read More »

The PeC Review: SeeWhy.com Helps Capture Exiting Shoppers

The PeC Review: SeeWhy.com Helps Capture Exiting Shoppers

A six year-old, real-time analytics firm seeks to help online merchants boost conversions by enabling stores to follow up with ... 0 Comments | Read More »

Accessibility Review: PetsContained.com

Accessibility Review: PetsContained.com

Disabled consumers often face great challenges when browsing and making purchases online. Perhaps as many as ten percent of onl... 0 Comments | Read More »

Seven Ways to Reduce Shopping Cart Abandonment

Seven Ways to Reduce Shopping Cart Abandonment

Shopping cart abandonment affects most every ecommerce merchant. A whitepaper by McAfee, an ecommerce security company, called ... 4 Comments | Read More »

Accessibility Review: LorisWigsite.com

Accessibility Review: LorisWigsite.com

Disabled Internet users often face great challenges when browsing and making purchases online. Perhaps as many as ten percent o... 0 Comments | Read More »

The Shopping Experience: Newegg

The Shopping Experience: Newegg

Newegg, the second largest ecommerce retailer in the U.S., provided a flawless shopping experience that made it easy to underst... 7 Comments | Read More »

The PeC Review: Runa Converts Reluctant Website Visitors

The PeC Review: Runa Converts Reluctant Website Visitors

By some estimates, fewer than 20 percent of online retailers have conversion rates above 5 percent. Most Internet merchants exp... 2 Comments | Read More »

Conversion Review: Boulder Running Company

Conversion Review: Boulder Running Company

The Boulder Running Company is a Colorado-based specialty retailer with three stores across the Front Range. It has been operat... 0 Comments | Read More »

How-to Articles Can Boost Sales

How-to Articles Can Boost Sales

Publishing how-to articles on your ecommerce website can be an effective way to boost sales. How-to articles can attract traffi... 2 Comments | Read More »

Ecommerce Know-How: Marketing to the Hispanic Community

Ecommerce Know-How: Marketing to the Hispanic Community

The Hispanic community is one of the fastest growing online consumer segments in the U.S. It represents some 11 percent of the ... 1 Comment | Read More »

Chart of the Week: U.K. Online Shoppers Likely to Buy at Work vs. Home

Chart of the Week: U.K. Online Shoppers Likely to Buy at Work vs. Home

Results from a new study showed that shoppers in the U.K. made some 36 percent of their online retail purchases from work. The... 0 Comments | Read More »

Ecommerce Know-How:  Turn Customers Into Members

Ecommerce Know-How: Turn Customers Into Members

Focusing a portion of marketing efforts on reselling existing customers or acquiring frequent shoppers could help boost sales f... 0 Comments | Read More »

Ecommerce Know-How: Mobile Commerce in Four Steps

Ecommerce Know-How: Mobile Commerce in Four Steps

Internet-enabled mobile handsets, mobile Internet devices, and new wireless broadband standards are all making it easier for co... 0 Comments | Read More »

The Landing Page as a Multipurpose Tool

The Landing Page as a Multipurpose Tool

Landing pages are always worth a review because their use is often misunderstood. A landing page is any web page to which users... 1 Comment | Read More »

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