Accounting, Management & Legal
Bitcoins: 3 Things Online Merchants Must Know
Bitcoin is a mostly anonymous, peer-to-peer electronic payment system that could allow online retailers to accept cash-like pay... 4 Comments | Read More »
5 Reasons for an Ecommerce Business Plan
Does an ecommerce company need a business plan? Yes, almost any business can benefit from developing a business plan. While ma... 2 Comments | Read More »
21 Key Performance Indicators for Ecommerce Businesses
Key performance indicators are becoming common in large corporations as a way to measure and monitor the success of key activit... 10 Comments | Read More »
Outsourcing v. Hiring In-house: Pros and Cons
Looking back at my 10-years of managing a growing ecommerce business, I realize that online retailing is not simple. It require... 7 Comments | Read More »
Ecommerce Acquisitions, Mergers, and Partnerships — What You Need to Know
In the late 1990s, ecommerce vendors looked to brick and mortar retailers for marketing tips and best practices. Now, as more p... 0 Comments | Read More »
Will U.S. Online Sales Tax Mandate Hurt Small Business?
Struggling states and some brick-and-mortar retailers have reinvigorated an effort to mandate that online merchants collect sal... 7 Comments | Read More »
Analyzing a Startup, and Pivoting
Editor's Note: Contributing Editor Dale Traxler is a former ecommerce owner who now consults with other businesses on financial... 0 Comments | Read More »
Simplified Accounting for Ecommerce Merchants
Ecommerce businesses, like all businesses, should maintain accurate accounting records. But many entrepreneurs dislike account... 0 Comments | Read More »
Outright CEO on Accounting for Non-Accountants
Every business, ecommerce or otherwise, should maintain accurate books and records. But for some entrepreneurs, the accounting fun... 0 Comments | Read More »
Social Media: 5 Legal Risks to Your Company
Social media has become not just a place to share our personal lives. Many people use social media to promote their business, ... 1 Comment | Read More »
Adapting To Business Lifecycles
Businesses have a lifecycles. They can be summarized as follows. Humble beginnings to survival. This is the period from the c... 0 Comments | Read More »
How to Evaluate Ecommerce Risks
Ecommerce business owners face risks. Some may keep you awake at night. Others are routine and you really don’t think about the... 6 Comments | Read More »
Investment in Ecommerce Firms Robust
While the poor showing of Facebook in its initial public offering last month has immobilized the market for Internet companies ... 0 Comments | Read More »
Know Your Margins
New ecommerce businesses should choose to sell products that have enough margin — i.e., profits — to be successful. A new online bu... 0 Comments | Read More »
Achieving Your Ecommerce Business Goals
In my recent series of articles, I examined six different elements of a business model: customers, products and services, chann... 4 Comments | Read More »
Using Google Analytics to Measure Social Media Effectiveness
Google Analytics has moved its social reports to new locations. And it has added new features to gather more in-depth social m... 0 Comments | Read More »
Is Your Ecommerce Model Profitable and Sustainable?
Are your profits better or worse than you projected 12 months ago? If you don't know — or if you didn't do a projection — you... 1 Comment | Read More »
Limitations on the Crowdfunding Legislation
Now that the Jumpstart Our Business Startups — "JOBS" — Act has passed, many people are jumping to get into the crowdfunding ga... 0 Comments | Read More »
Building the Right Ecommerce Team for Success
Think you have a killer idea for an ecommerce business? Whether you are a product manufacturer or a reseller, it’s pretty diffi... 1 Comment | Read More »
7 Key Ecommerce-Infrastructure Decisions
Every business requires an infrastructure to support its customers and operations. This includes facilities, equipment, and pro... 3 Comments | Read More »
