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Online commerce is thriving, even in the face of an economy that is still struggling to get back to full speed. In fact, recent comScore figures show increases in holiday season spending over last year, after early data started to...
Amazon Payments (a subsidiary of Amazon.com) rolled out a whopper of a service for consumers (and Internet retailers) last night dubbed PayPhrase . Users are able to bypass a typical ecommerce checkout line and expedite the order process...
Akamai Technologies and Forrester announced the results of a survey on website performance and its correlation with an online shopper's behavior. What they found is that consumers are seemingly growing more impatient with slow...
If you’re an Internet retailer in today’s e-commerce landscape, then you better have a live chat solution available to consumers. Fortunately, these offerings are not in short supply and merchants are realizing their value...
Some webmasters are receiving warnings from Google Webmaster Tools about SSL certification issues. Google is apparently (with some difficulty) notifying users when the host name of their site does not match any of the "Subject...
Vertical shopping search engine TheFind formally announced the debut of its Merchant Center. Retailers are now able to provide information about their store to be included within the site's search results. Similar to Google or...
Search marketing platform Kenshoo unveiled RealTime Campaigns today, a feature which links a company's search marketing program directly to their e-commerce or inventory system. Connecting inventory and marketing clearly offers...
Payment processor Encore Payment Systems has introduced an iPhone application for merchants (mobile or otherwise). Using the app, merchants can type the card information into the phone and the credit and devit card transactions are...
It looks like retailers are going to be paying a lot more attention to how the shopping experience ends - that means the checkout process. According to a survey scheduled for release this morning at Shop.org’s Online Merchandising...
It's not often that you see a commercial shopping cart bundled with a Web hosting package. In fact, only those of the open source variety have ever crossed my path. Web hosting company Aplus.net must not have gotten the memo (or...
A recent ABestWeb forum thread has truly shocked me. Shocked I tell you! And I've become nearly immune to most everything, hardly blinking an eye in the face of even the most innovative techniques, trends and technologies that...
Is this the future of e-commerce? Twitter commerce company Twitpay just announced its Retweet Commerce Suite, a service that aims to simplify commercials transactions on Twitter. RT2Buy (short for "Retweet To Buy") is the...
Conversion is one of the most critical metrics for understanding website (and of course marketing) performance. It reveals how effectively enterprises motivate website visitors to act on their unique selling propositions. One of the...
Performics unveiled a study which revealed that online retailers may still find themselves well positioned in this depressed economy, with 60 percent of respondents saying they will spend equal or more money online in the next 60 days...
Many think e-commerce has no place in the Twitter-verse, but look at some of the top accounts and you'll think otherwise. From a one-person startup to a Fortune 500 CEO, anyone can use Twitter to connect - but not all are doing...
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