Interviews & Profiles
Reading List: Jaime Brugueras of Mineful
In “Reading List,” we ask ecommerce professionals to name some of their favorite recent books and blogs and tell us why they ... 0 Comments | Read More »
How to Compete on Price Against Large Companies
Conventional wisdom is that smaller ecommerce merchants cannot compete against larger ones in terms of the prices of their resp... 2 Comments | Read More »
What's an Inappropriate Product Review?
A recent New York Times story profiled a merchant that sold leather Kindle cases on Amazon. The merchant, according to The Time... 0 Comments | Read More »
Reading List: Stefan Schmidt of Hybris
In “Reading List,” we ask ecommerce professionals to name some of their favorite recent books and blogs and tell us why they... 0 Comments | Read More »
How to Source Products from China, and Sell There Too
There's no bigger name in the ecommerce industry than Alibaba. It was launched in 1999 in China, but it now services millions o... 0 Comments | Read More »
Reducing Shipping Costs for Low-Volume Merchants
The free-shipping era squeezes smaller merchants. They must match the shipping policies of larger competitors, but they don't r... 5 Comments | Read More »
Vat19.com Thrives in 2011, Recap
We recently spoke with Jamie Salvatori about how his company fared in 2011. He is the founder and owner of Vat19, an establish... 1 Comment | Read More »
Vat19.com Owner on 2011 Growth, Profits
We've recently asked ecommerce merchants to share their 2011 experiences — good or bad — with us. For this installment, we are jo... 0 Comments | Read More »
Using Real People to Test a Website
Knowing how consumers interact with an ecommerce site can be greatly beneficial. There's a company that provides real-time user... 0 Comments | Read More »
Multi-store Merchant Recaps 2011
With 2011 winding down, we recently asked an ecommerce merchant to recap his company's accomplishments for the year. The merch... 1 Comment | Read More »
Cat5 Commerce CEO Recaps 2011
A review of ecommerce sales for 2011 is the topic of our interview today. We are joined by an ecommerce entrepreneur and pioneer wh... 0 Comments | Read More »
Email Deliverability: Blacklists, ISP Blocks, Spam Triggers
Email marketing is critically important to many ecommerce merchants. But what happens if a merchant's email is blocked by an In... 2 Comments | Read More »
New Custom, Top-Level Domains Coming; From 'Widget.com' to '.Widget'
The range of possible domain names is about to greatly increase. That's because ICANN, the authoritative body over Internet dom... 1 Comment | Read More »
SEOmoz CEO on Raising Venture Capital
There's no more prominent search-engine-optimization company than SEOmoz. It offers tools for managing search engine rankings ... 1 Comment | Read More »
SEOmoz CEO on Aborted Venture Capital Process
The process of raising venture capital funding is intense, and oftentimes frustrating. One CEO just went through that process and ... 1 Comments | Read More »
Entrepreneur Describes Selling an Ecommerce Business
Many merchants dream of building a successful ecommerce business and then selling it. Shirley Tan, the founder and former owner... 3 Comments | Read More »
AmericanBridal.com Founder on Selling the Business
Many merchants dream of building a successful ecommerce business, and then selling it. Our guest for this interview has done just ... 0 Comments | Read More »
Ecommerce Companies Snag Venture Capital
While venture capital funding has generally been in the doldrums this year, a few ecommerce software companies — and even some ... 1 Comment | Read More »
Interview: Yahoo! Small Business General Manager
There's no more pioneering platform in the ecommerce business than Yahoo!. Its shopping cart powers thousands of ecommerce sto... 1 Comment | Read More »
Back Office Complexities of Selling on Multiple Channels
Proponents of selling retail products across multiple online channels don't often discuss the back office reality of managing i... 0 Comments | Read More »
