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To keep an e-commerce store running at peak-performance, merchants need to pay attention not only to analytics, but also to customer feedback. While analytics are a good starting point for figuring out which site elements need to be...
Data is continually emerging about the performance of online retailers in the final quarter of 2012. Monetate's latest release of its ECommerce Quarterly Report ( EQ4 2012 ) for example, reveals several important trends and includes...
Today's e-commerce platforms are much more than just a simple "shopping cart" - they've evolved into all-in-one platforms for retail enterpries to manage not just the customer shopping experience, but also the experience...
Is it possible to put your e-commerce SEO campaigns on autopilot? Online store owners using Shopping Cart Elite (a hosted e-commerce solution) now have a means to automate their search engine optimization efforts (at least some of...
The PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) has released new guidelines to help e-commerce merchants keep their customers' data safe. The digital security landscape is a complicated one where the roles, risks and responsibilities...
For the final three months of 2012, comScore is reporting that sales increased 14 percent to $56.8 billion, marking the ninth straight quarter of double-digit growth. U.S. retail e-commerce sales grew 15 percent to $186 billion for...
We live in an age of frenzy. Today, technological advancements and innovations occur on a daily basis and the very definition of “old” is ever-changing. Things used to get old with simple wear and tear. However, products...
By Ken Burke, Founder and Executive Chairman, MarketLive The numbers don’t lie. Tablets are taking over e-commerce. The latest indicators of the tablet phenomenon surfaced over the 2012 holiday kick-off weekend. Data captured...
Today’s online consumers are on to us. They are more privy to behavioral targeting and tracking and have higher privacy expectations because of it. Don’t panic; companies who are transparent with their audience stand to...
Online shopping is meant to be simple and suitable. Consumers unfamiliar with your brand are essentially taking a gamble on purchasing your products. They need an extra sense of comfort to convert and more from you to be a brand advocate...
Cart abandonment is among the most frustrating problems that e-commerce merchants face, and unfortunately, it happens way too often. In fact, 80 percent of online shoppers have placed an item in a shopping cart and left the site without...
A new Facebook commerce deal will see the social commerce platform Payvment , which powers most of the storefronts on the social network, referring its many subscribers to the e-commerce widget provider Ecwid in anticipation of the...
By Nicolas Fincher, PR and Community Manager at CS-Cart.com One of the key business rules working invariably for virtually all market fields (both brick-and-mortar and online) is that the monthly income amount is in direct correlation...
If you're serious about selling on the Web, you better start thinking global. ChannelAdvisor , a provider of cloud based e-commerce solutions which help online merchants optimize marketing campaigns (product feeds, et al) across...
Groupon has launched a new tool to help merchants measure the performance of their daily deals. The Merchant Impact Report is a free feature built into the Groupon Merchant Center that provides users with data that can be used to evaluate...
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