The monitor, keyboard, and mouse are the three most ubiquitous computer peripherals. In fact, it would be hard to image using a computer without them. But consider that prior to the invention of the mouse, most folks thought only of
The 2010 online holiday shopping season reached an all-time sales record. Retail ecommerce spending from November through December 2010 was $32.6 billion, according to a recent report from comScore, the tracking and analysis firm. This marked a 12 percent increase
“Ecommerce News Around the Web” is our weekly review of articles, blog posts and other news items that could interest ecommerce merchants. Google Flags Hacked Websites – LexiConn There is a new way for searchers to learn if a website
Selling products online is a challenge. Ecommerce merchants rarely benefit from spontaneous buys, cannot easily generate emotional buying responses, and face tremendous price competition, since thousands of competitors are only a click away. Nonetheless, many companies — from tiny purveyors
Photographs enhance an ecommerce site. Photos can feature products, customers or even a company’s staff. Photos can personalize a site and increase ecommerce sales. But, depending on a merchant’s ecommerce platform, photos can be tricky to upload and limited in
Many ecommerce merchants sell products from large manufacturers and suppliers. Increasingly, those manufacturers and suppliers also sell — on a retail basis — the same products. Shopatron is a company in San Luis Obispo, Calif. that refers sales from manufacturers’
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) has become the major technology-related trade show. The software, hardware and gadgets that debut there pave the way for new trends. And they can have a huge impact on ecommerce businesses, from the way consumers
Email marketing is vital for many ecommerce merchants. What does 2011 hold for email marketing? Below are seven key email marketing tactics businesses should be planning for the upcoming year. Relevancy Craft email messages with increased personalization, through segmentation and
There are few who question Facebook’s potential for ecommerce merchants. Access to a user base of nearly 600 million consumers — coupled with the targeting of specific audience segments based on users’ Likes — are compelling reasons to experiment with
The top five mobile device platforms in the United States, as of November 2010, are Research in Motion’s BlackBerry, Google Android, Apple, Microsoft and Palm. 61.5 million people aged 13 and above in the United States owned smartphones in November
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