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Gold steadies above 3-month low after setting biggest one-day loss since 2008
Friday, gold prices hovered above 3-month lows, a day after posting their biggest one-day loss since 2008, with investors wary of taking risks amid mounting sovereign debt fears in Europe. Spot gold changed slightly touching $1,063.35 per ounce as of 8:55 p.m. EST, against New York's notional close of $1,062.60. Spot...
Forex trends: pound creeps down hitting 8-1/2 months low vs dollar
British pound depreciated against its main rivals in late Asian deals, touching its lowest in 8-1/2 months level against the US dollar. Sterling also slipped against the euro and yen, while moving sideways against the Swiss franc.read more...
Forex trends: franc tumbles across the board
The Swiss currency presented a steep slide against its major rivals on Friday morning in Asia. read more...
Forex trends: buck’s spiking, while global stock market tumbles
During early Asian session, Friday the greenback drifted higher versus majors, hitting fresh multi-month highs against the European rivals. Along with the dollar’s surge, stocks slumped around the world, intensifying risk aversion and interest in the world's reserve currency.read more...
Forex news: yen slips after Thursday’s gains on concerns over the global economy
Friday morning, during early Asian deals, the Japanese unit weakened modestly versus its major opponents after advancing Thursday on growing concerns over the global economy. The unexpected increase in US jobless benefit claims and growing fears about the sovereign debt crisis in Greece and other parts of Europe pushed...
This scam investment game program which known as arbyfund is getting ready to vanish totally from the internet. This program was started on January 9 and offers multiple plans ranging from 15% to 30% daily for 15 days. The problem started on January 30 when the admin sent an update regarding...
eCommerce and Entrepreneurship Blog
From Google Street Views to Google Store Views
Search Engine Land’s Barry Schwartz received a tip from New York retailer Oh Nuts that Google had visited their store location to take pictures. The purpose of these pictures was for their upcoming Google Maps feature “Google Store Views”. The retailer explained that pictures were taken in six foot increments...
Long Tail Broad Match and Negative Keyword SEM Campaign Experiment
When I first started creating keywords for my very first campaign, there were signs everywhere on the internet that said "Don't use broad match!" A little later I learned about negative keywords and how to use those effectively by running a Google search query report. So it caught me by...
Localizing Twitter Data for Businesses
While I may be late to the party and still not very engaged, to say the least I am very interested in a new feature Twitter recently rolled out called Local Trends. It's described on their blog:"As Twitter evolves, and more people share what’s happening in their own world, we...
The Expanding World of Online Video January 2010
It’s that time again where we review what happened this past month in online video! Embedded Videos on Product Detail Pages First off Get Elastic wrote a great post on whether or not to use YouTube embedded videos on product detail pages. Embedding a video is using YouTube's HTML code to put...
Vanessa’s Variety for the Week of January 31st, 2010
It’s always nice to find web applications that make design easier and Rounded CSS Boxes is no exception. This is a tool that generates images, HTML code, and CSS code to create rounded boxes for web pages. You can learn more about the tool and its uses here. Copyblogger is starting...
Twitter Assists Users by Denying Poor Passwords
Recently Twitter.com implemented some password standards for their new users. If you view their source on the sign up page you can find a password list of around 370 banned passwords. Try searching for "twttr.BANNED_PASSWORDS" to see it. It consists of things like simple combinations of numbers, first names,...
The Interspire Blog
Interspire Podcast #1: Our email marketing strategy for 250,000+ contacts
Length: 26:40Overview: A look into the strategies we've used to grow our various email lists to over 250,000 people.Description: In this, our first podcast in a series of many, I...
IntroductionAfter 3 months of development, 6 weeks in beta and dozens of resolved features and bugs, Interspire Shopping Cart 5.5 is finally available for purchase and upgrade from our web site and client area.What's New?Where do I start? This is a major upgrade with a big focus on merchandising -...
Quick Update: Interspire Shopping Cart 5.5 Coming Next Week
Hi everyone. Just a quick update to let you know that Interspire Shopping Cart 5.5 will be available for download (for existing clients) and purchase (for new clients) next week. As you may know, we released the 5.5 beta about 4 weeks ago and we're just about ready for the...
Interspire Shopping Cart 5.5 Beta Available to All Clients
Hi everyone. It was only a few weeks ago we released the beta for Interspire Email Marketer 6 (of which the final version has since been pushed live and upgraded to by thousands of clients in just over 3 weeks) and today I'm writing to let you know that we've...
An Update On Our Company-Wide Transparency Strategy: Our Ideas Lab
In late 2008 we launched the Interspire Ideas Lab, which is a digg-style voting system for new features across our various products. I launched our ideas lab for a few different reasons:Up until that point we didn't have a unified system for collecting your feedback - we were using the...
Here's What's Coming in Interspire Shopping Cart 5.5
As we wrap up our internal testing on Interspire Shopping Cart 5.5 we’ll be making the beta available from the client area some time this week. Most of the features in the upcoming release were added based directly on your feedback, so we’re hoping you’re looking as forward to the release as we are. This...
Retailer Daily
‘The Daily Wrap’: CVS, Toys R Us, Yum Brands
“The Daily Wrap” offers a roundup of the day’s biggest retail industry headlines. Following are some news items you may be interested in checking out....
Online Product Recommendations Miss Mark
The quality of product recommendations on retailer websites significantly declined in 2009, according to a new study from ChoiceStream....
Fast food retailer Burger King Holdings Inc. rebounded from a disappointing Q1 fiscal 2010 by improving worldwide revenue, net income and margin during Q2 2010 (ended December 31, 2009). Selected highlights and analysis follow....
Movie Gallery Files Chapter 11
Movie Gallery, Inc., parent company of the Movie Gallery, Hollywood Video and Game Crazy media entertainment chains, has voluntarily filed [pdf] for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Richmond Division. The restructuring will include the immediate liquidation and closure of approximately...
GGP Obtains ‘Historic’ Development Opportunity - Update
General Growth Properties, Inc. (GGP) which filed for bankruptcy, along with 158 regional shopping centers it owns, in April 2009, has obtained what it says is one of the “largest development opportunities” in company history....
‘The Daily Wrap’: Polo Ralph Lauren, Domino’s, WilcoHess
“The Daily Wrap” offers a roundup of the day’s biggest retail industry headlines. Following are some news items you may be interested in checking out....
Check Out Blog
This is it... Only 12 days (or less) left before Christmas. Still got time to buy online from walmart.com. We've made it easier for you this year to insure the item(s) your buying will/can arrive on time. Here's an example of the table you'll see while shopping.How much shopping did you do...
Ok, so I have seen a bunch of questions out in the blog world asking if Walmart is REALLY offering a $50 gift card with the purchase of XBOX360 Elite. The answer is YES. And I've heard some of your concerns about games not being restocked that are on our...
This week's Wii offer was one way we are trying to help our customers this holiday season. The values just don't stop there...starting this Sunday you will be able to get a $50 gift card with the purchase of the Xbox 360 Elite. This offer will be valid Dec 13-19,...
Even in these economic times, we see how important it is for Santa, Mom, Dad, Grandma, Grandpa, husbands, wives, boyfriends, and girlfriends to be able to give the perfect gift. We also know that A LOT of wish lists today -- for all ages -- include a...
Zhu Zhu Hamsters Top Gift Lists for Kids
I normally follow fashion but I also love being "in the know" when it comes to the hottest, must-have gifts for kids (I'm a newlywed and not a mom yet, but I adore the many munchkins in my life). This year I heard that Zhu Zhu hamsters are one of...
Wow ... great deals this weekend!
Wow, wow, WOW! Walmart today announced an entire Thanksgiving weekend jam-packed with great products and prices. So exciting!Check out the full advertisement online at Walmart.com. And remember, it isn't only about the day-after-Thanksgiving early morning deals; we have a whole weekend of events and special offers to help shoppers save...
Practical eCommerce Podcasts
Gad Serruya of Dextel Ecommerce Manager
Gad Serruya is president and founder of Dextel.net, producers of the Dextel Ecommerce Manager. In this Cart of the Week supplement, Serruya explains how Dextel was initially conceived as a marketing and branding company, but then became primarily an ecommerce software provider....
Build Credibility With Press Clippings
To build trust in your business, update your 'About Us' page and include any press clippings that give you coverage, especially if they are national titles. These are very powerful. Also any awards you have won for your business or products help build credibility for your company. ...
Coupon code searches are an important part of online product research and purchasing decisions. As the months go by, don't forget to update your coupon codes within your comparison shopping data feeds to match the promotions found at your website. ...
Cybersource Exec on Credit Card Fraud
Most every ecommerce merchant has experienced credit card fraud. But some merchants have experienced more fraud than others, and fraud-prevention efforts vary from merchant to merchant. Cybersource, the payment gateway company, tracks all of this. For 11 years now it has assembled an online fraud report called "Online Payment Fraud...
A Human Face Can Increase Conversions
People prefer doing business with people. Everyone wants to know that if they have a problem, there’s someone there to help. So consider adding a message from the CEO, a photo of your staff or offices, and mission statement to your site. It’s proven to increase conversions. ...
Examine Competitors' SEO Tactics
An examination of your competitors' SEO tactics can help you uncover content optimization and link building opportunities that are already proving effective for other sites. It can be an effective way to jump start your program when you’ve tried everything you can think of and it’s still not working....
Retail eCommerce Blog - Online Retail Marketing & eCommerce SEO Tips by Mobius
SEO Copywriting for Apparel – What’s the Right Approach!!
I love fashion…I love clothes but when it comes to writing about apparel and accessories, it is a tough one. I have written about a host of hard category products like cameras, camcorders, televisions, you name it. It is a breeze, as you have a lot of information on their...
Sell the Vision of Looking Good, and not Apparel
From Helen of Troy, the paragon of feminine perfection to the sizzling Angelina Jolie and from Adonis, the best example of male beauty to the irresistible Mel Gibson, the world has always valued beauty. If that wasn’t the case, fashion would have been an obsolete term. In today’s world, the drive...
Twitter, a Preferred Social Media Outlet for Top Online Retailers
A couple of years ago, if you had asked what twitter meant, you would have been called a bird brain. Excuse the pun, but don’t they teach at elementary school that birds twitter, dogs bark and so on!! And if you ask folks what twitter means now, some might still...
Take Tips from the Big G and Bing on Web Site Architecture
Successful SEO depends on 3 main factors… Website Architecture Keyword Rich Original Content Quality and Relevant Links If you leave any of these factors out of your strategy, you will not be able to devise a successful SEO plan. This blog post will discuss about web site architecture for a winning search engine optimization...
10 Expert Tips to Retain Your New Customers on eCommerce Websites
Successful retailers retain their customers, and that's how they become successful. :) Here, our guest blogger Michelle talks about retaining the customers. Michelle Strassburg heads the sales and marketing at wood and beyond that sells hardwood flooring. Winning new customers is often easier than keeping them! Not too dissimilar to other types...
Promotions, Deals and Discounts Define the Current Holiday Season
Last year as the economy was in the throes of a recession, there was a lot of speculation on consumer behavior, and retailers feared that their holiday sales would take a hit. They slashed prices to lure customers, there were70 percent markdowns on merchandise. This year, the story is slightly different....
AuctionBytes Blog by Ina Steiner
eBay Reveals It Conducted a Test of All Stores in Core
Sellers who are wondering what impact eBay s pending changes will have on their own business may want to check their October sales data. In a podcast interview with AuctionBytes on Friday ......
Amazon.com Q4-2009 Sales up 42% to $9.5 Billion
Amazon.com s press release dated 1/28/10 follows. Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced financial results for its fourth quarter ended December 31, 2009. Operating cash flow was $3.29 ......
Live Blogging eBay's Town Hall Meeting on Seller Release
eBay is hosting a Town Hall meeting to discuss Tuesday s Seller Release announcement. I ll be live blogging the session. To ......
Survey Asks eBay Sellers to Measure Effect of Upcoming Fee Change
eBay announced far-reaching changes to fees on January 26, 2010, and will eliminate the Store Inventory format (SIF) at the end of March. The day of eBay s announcement, I fielded ......
Former Employees Blog about eBay and PayPal
eBay has a search problem, according to the former Director of eBay Express North America. Adam Nash, now Vice President of Search & Platform Products at LinkedIn, blogged today about the ......
Netpreneur Blog - Making a Living on the Web in Australia
How to use social media and Web 2.0 in event management
On 21 January 2010 I delivered a presentation to the Adelaide chapter of Meetings and Events Australia (MEA) at the Adelaide Convention Centre. The presentation was entitled ‘ How to use social media and other Web 2.0 tools in event management’. The presentation contained a case study of an event...
The secret to making money in your sleep - 7 steps
I’ve recently been talking to a local businessman who is interested in transforming his existing business into a ‘internet marketing’ business. He has developed some great experience in retail circles over his career and he wants to ‘productise’ his knowledge and sell it via the web. He asked me for my...
New Australian SaaS shopping cart product - BigCommerce
I am a big fan of Interspire’s Email Marketer software. This Australian-based company has just released a new subscription-based Software-as-a-Service shopping cart system called BigCommerce. SaaS is the future of the web and the guys at Interspire have done a great job converting their existing product, Interspire Shopping Cart, into...
How to Rank Number One on Google
I’ve recently started delivering training to small groups of website owners about how to take their websites to Number One on Google. Here’s the presentation slides that I have been using: How To Rank No 1 On Google View more presentations from Clayton Wehner. Related posts:Action List: Use Slideshare to share your Powerpoint...
Calls to Action: How to Motivate Your Website Visitors Out of Inactivity
Firstly, what is a call to action? Well it is the action, response or activity you most want visitors to your website to take. You should have a desired call to action for every page on your website. Depending on your site you may just want people to make contact with...
Action List: Add your URL to local directories
One way to increase the findability of your website is to submit it to local directory websites. Most directories offer a free listing service and it is relatively easy and quick to add your site. I recommend doing this manually, rather than using one of the many auto-submission tools that...
Digital Money Forum
Could that competition come from the Feds themselves? What if the Feds decided that it was desirable to have a national debit scheme for the US, much like the ECB wants a pan-European "third scheme" in Europe? What if the Feds were to decide to get more involved in retail...
Victor Dostov, Russian Electronic Money Association
[Dave Birch] Victor Dostov is the Director for Retail Payment Services at Tavricnesky Bank in St. Petersburg and is also Chair of the Russian Electronic Money Association. In this podcast, he draws on his long background in the developing Russian......
Could that competition come from the Feds themselves? What if the Feds decided that it was desirable to have a national debit scheme for the US, much like the ECB wants a pan-European "third scheme" in Europe? What if the Feds were to decide to get more involved in retail...
[Dave Birch] We had a very pleasant evening at Olswang's digtial money event this week, part of their "Plus Technology" series, and they asked me to write a short piece on the next three to five years in payments for......
Thaer Sabri, Electronic Money Assocation
[Dave Birch] Dr. Thaer Sabri is the Managing Director of Flawless Money and has spent more than a decade in the electronic money industry in a regulatory capacity as well as product management and business development. Thaer worked at Mondex......
BarCampBankLondon3 last reminder
Please be advised that the BarCampBankLondon3 event will be taking place on Saturday 30th January 2010 in Richmond, London. The aim of BarCampBank is to foster innovations and the creation and innovation of new business models in the world of......
The Ecommerce Blog
Open Source Firewall Appliance Round 2
A few years ago I blogged about using the Untangle firewall to replace a Sonicwall or similar firewall appliance. Since then, Untangle has come a long way. I would like to revisit the untangle appliance as it has undergone numerous improvements, and in my opinion is now a fully capable replacement...
Business seasonality, and search trends for your marketing
Chances are if you are an online retailer your have some seasonality to your business. This mainly depends on the type of products you sell, and the general type of people that purchase your products. As a B2B’ish industry we see major volume decreases near every holiday. Where does your business...
MySQL 5.1 now supported on Cpanel / WHM
Just found out this morning that MySQL 5.1 is now officially supported on cpanel. MySQL 5.1 offers some major improvements in some areas to MySQL 5.0. MySQL 5.1 was released over a year ago and it’s been a long wait for those cpanel users needing 5.1 features. Upgrading is not as...
Having a SUNny day without Microsoft
If you’re another person who is constantly fed up with Microsoft products and the cost that comes with them, you’re not alone. I still stand by my recommendation of avoiding Microsoft products before you become their slave, but I must admit, there’s still a number of them that I use. Since...
Framework for a Good Product Page
I was inspired by the Anatomy of a Usable Website, and decided to make a similar guide for a product page. I had previously written a post regarding product descriptions, which still apply here as well. Download the full PDF version » This is meant to be a framework for creating an...
Could your ecommerce site kill somebody
I was recently looking at Google Maps for some route information to find a driving time near my hometown in Colorado. Google Suggested that I drive over a pass called Schofield pass. While this could be just any old pass, but it’s not. Schofield Pass is one of the most dangerous roads...
E-Commerce Law
E-Commerce Law Briefs: Week of January 25, 2010
A federal judge has reduced the verdict in the only file-sharing case to have gone to trial in the United States. The case has now been tried twice. In 2007, a $222,000 judgment was awarded against a Minnesota woman who shared 24 songs over the Internet. Last year, another judge......
E-Commerce Law Briefs: Week of January 18, 2010
We're fairly certain that New York Times Company Chairman Arthur Sulzberger doesn't read E-Commerce Law, especially after hearing the he planned to announce that the New York Times will soon begin charging for its online content. As we indicated last week, 77 percent of Internet users say they would not......
In Jensen v. Modern Aero, Inc., 2010 WL 88229 (Minn. App. Jan. 12, 2010), the Court of Appeals of Minnesota held that a defendant's website, which lauded defendant's "worldwide" expertise," listed a toll-free telephone number for defendant, and provided an electronic form for customers to contact the defendant, was insufficient......
E-Commerce Law Briefs: Week of January 11, 2010
We have often discussed the future of newspapers in a society that increasingly seeks news and information from the Internet. Nearly four years ago, we suggested that a "pay-for-online-content model is unlikely to work, given the number of free Internet news sources." It looks like we were right - in......
Happy New Year! E-Commerce Law Briefs will return next weekend....
Talking Pyramids: Ancient Egyptian Pyramids» Talking Pyramids: Ancient Egyptian Pyramids News
Friday Photo: Pigeons & Pyramids Panorama
A distant perspective of the pyramids of Menkaure, Khafre and Khufu shot from the south-east corner of the Giza plateau. The persistent presence of the pigeons on the plateau has been a concern for a number of years now. They have made a habit of nesting in crevices...
Ancient Egypt News for Friday 05-02-10
Nubian Pyramids This morning saw a continuation of the rewrapping of the mummy known as the “Anonymous Man”. There will be one final day on Tuesday when they’ll wrap things up…literally. Sorry, couldn’t resist that one. There was a very brief but interesting video on the website of Dr Hawass...
Back in the Lab with Anonymous Man
The Brooklyn Museum is back in the lab today to follow on from where they left off on Tuesday. Shelly is once again live blogging the event on Twitter, and posting photos, which can be viewed here on this post. Just like on Tuesday, you can send your questions and comments to...
Ancient Egypt News for Thursday 04-02-10
Hieroglyphic Sex Graffiti by Quinn CC BY SA On the 4th floor of the University of Chicago, home of the Oriental Institute, was found this peice of graffiti – in ancient Egyptian hieroglpyhs. Quinn Dombrowski, who discovered the graffiti asked an Egyptologist at the university to translate it. It...
Ancient Egypt News for Wednesday 03-02-10
Limestone Boundary Stela of Sety I Quite a few readers ‘tuned in’ this morning (or yesterday, depending on your location) to watch the Related posts:Ancient Egypt News for Wednesday 02-12-09 Ancient Egypt News for Wednesday 20-01-10 Ancient Egypt News for Wednesday 25-11-09 ...
Re-wrapping a Mummy Live in the Lab!
The Brooklyn Museum returns to the lab today to re-wrap the “Anonymous Man” to prepare him for display in the Mummy Chamber exhibition. Shelly Bernstein, the Brooklyn Museum’s Chief of Technology, is live blogging the event again on Twitter, coming to you direct from the lab. She’ll be giving...
ColderICE eCommerce Video Blog
CLOSED!!! - Are The Effects of A Soft Economy Hitting Retail HARD?!?
I carefully selected my neighborhood nearly 6 years ago based on its location to recreation and shopping. When we moved in years ago, this area was a booming suburban area with access to all kinds of retail locations. However since the softening of the economy back in the fall of...
The False Appearance of Influence with Social Media
Brent Leary and myself got into a great discussion about how some pretend to have influence simply because they have a few followers. Listen to this episode of B.S. Walks NOW! (press play button and be patient, it takes a minute to buffer) OR Click to...
eBay Green Team: Mother Nature Could Always Use An Advocate
Did you know I was CEO of a green business? Did you know that you are TOO? If you are conducting business in your home, recycling boxes, recycling packing material plus delivering and picking up packages in bulk, then you are helping to promote some green agendas that are good...
Tips for writing quality content for customers and press releases
Clipped from www.websites-that-work.net Some tips when writing a press release: Tell the story y – Make you Have a real story – Make your story about how you can solve your customer’s ills. – Use the inverted pyramid approach. The first 10 words are the most important. Catchy title – Make the title catchy and meaningful,...
Is It Time For YOU To Quit eBay? Seth Godin’s Interview Relevant Today
Are you building a business or do you just have a job as you grow old? Are you creating an enterprise or just going through the motions? Can you make it through the challenges, should you just QUIT or be exceptional? Seth says average is for LOSERS…wow! Seth joined AuctionBytes...
Press Release: Auctiva Introduces a Marketplace Platform Called AMP
Auctiva, a leader in tools for online sellers, is launching AMP - the Auctiva Marketplace Platform. AMP takes item information from thousands of individual e-commerce stores and groups them together into one platform that developers can use to build custom marketplaces and applications. This simple idea offers an opportunity never...
Blue Acorn eCommerce Consulting
3 Ways to Use Your Facebook Fan Base for Marketing Research
One of the big, obvious differences between eCommerce enterprises and traditional bricks and mortar set-ups is this: the bricks & mortar shops can “see” their customers, talk to them, and develop a stronger profile on them. Sure, if you’re an eCommerce company with strong analytics, you can analyze keywords, bounce...
War, the Long Tail SKU Search Domination
For mortal ecommerce merchants involved in search marketing- on a budget- this means adroitly picking the right search terms and channels to market your wares and then fully vesting them to ensure their don’t just appear in those search results but appear, appear and reappear yet again not only across...
How to Use Twitter Effectively – What Twitter Type are You?
Back in December, I wrote this post about Twitter. A lot has happened to this Internet microblogging company in the ten months since then, including its recent reception of 100 million dollars in funding and its valuation at one billion dollars. This past June, 44.5 million worldwide visitors checked out...
They say a picture’s worth a thousand words—but with the rising popularity of multimedia on the web, a high-impact video can be worth a whole lot more than that. According to a study by ComScore, more than 168 million American web shoppers watched online videos during September of 2009, representing...
Hitting a Moving Target: Tips for Success in Mobile Marketing
If you could get your hands on footage of 10 of your target consumers right now, 9 of them would probably be on the move. In today’s fast-paced, frenzied world, a majority of buyers are relying on their cell phones and hand-held devices as a primary means of receiving information. So...
Attract the Right Traffic with Content Syndication
When it comes to building credibility, attracting new customers, and keeping them coming back for more, relevant and high-quality content is critical. As an added bonus, your content also serves an important role in boosting your site’s organic rankings, making it more likely that potential customers will find you in...
ComparisonEngines
I’ve had lots of great conversations about data feeds in the last 24 hours. Advertisers (merchants) and publishers (affiliates) recognize the value of data feeds, but it seems they’re just getting going. If merchants are submitting data feeds to CJ, Linkshare, ShareASale, or Google Affiliate Network, the feeds...
@ Affiliate Summit West – Data Feeds
If you’re not at the conference, check out the #asw10 on twitter. So far, so good. I was here 2 years back and wasn’t that impressed. This conference seems to be much more professional, organized. Love that the first two sessions I’ve attended have already mentioned...
Meet at Affiliate Summit West Next Week
I’ll be speaking at Affiliate Summit West next week in Vegas. Arriving Sunday afternoon and leaving Tuesday evening. On a panel Monday @ 11:30am Monday. Will be talking about data feeds with Scott Jangro (MechMedia), Larry Adams (Google Affiliate Network), and Shergul Arshad (StyleFeeder). We’ll discuss...
Yahoo! Product Submit Replaced by PriceGrabber
This morning, Yahoo! Product Submit merchants were notified that as of March 11, 2010, Yahoo! Shopping is partnering with PriceGrabber. At that time, merchants will no longer be able to submit to Yahoo! Product Submit to list products on Yahoo! Shopping, but must submit through PriceGrabber. If merchants...
Strong Close to Online Holiday Shopping 2009
In this morning’s industry note, Piper Jaffray feels confident with its prediction of 5% year over year growth for eCommerce sales during the 2009 holiday shopping season based on easy y/y comparisons, the snow storm, comScore’s 4% Holiday Shopping 2009 growth numbers, and Coremetrics’ 6% Holiday Shopping 2009 growth numbers. Coremetrics...
SingleFeed Sponsoring TechCrunch’s Avatar Screening – Need a Tix?
If you need a ticket to TechCrunch’s Avatar screening, ping me, and I might be able to get you in. SingleFeed is a ‘popcorn and soda’ sponsor. We’re doing this to get the word out about our Engineering Lead job opening. So if you’re in San Francisco and need...
Shopify Blog - Home
Foo Fighters Now Rocking Out On Shopify
Designed by the awesome Lee Martin, the store features everything from t-shirts to CDs, so have a look. Also until this Monday, enter the code SHOPIFY at checkout for 10% off everything in the store! <object height="344" width="425"><param></param><param></param><param></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/1VQ_3sBZEm0&hl=en_US&fs=1&" height="344" width="425"></embed></object>...
Article About Shopify in the New York Times
Two Shopify peeps were featured in an awesome New York Times article published yesterday, written by Lora Kolodny. Tobi was interviewed for the article and Daniel got the photo credit. You can read the article here....
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Great presentation on from Mary Meeker (Morgan Stanley) about the Economy and Internet Trends....
Haven’t heard of them? You will soon. Here’s a presentation on the subject Activity Streams View more documents from Chris Messina. You can also read more at http://activitystrea.ms/...
Cool short video post that asks the question: “How many false starts have you had?” Check out the clip:...
My last few tweets… My footwear of choice today will be my Hunter Originals http://bit.ly/6m5knK #Facebook tool prints and mails personal newsletter http://bit.ly/5L7IBw Interesting article from @EntMagazine about Learn how to sell yourself to prospects in 6 simple steps. http://bit.ly/7K1cE9 MapMyIndia Launches TrailBlazer, Navigation Device for MotorBikers http://bit.ly/6SYlj8 #mobile #technology #india Ad figures for 2009...
There are many ways in which the price of a product can be determined. The following are the foremost strategies that businesses are likely to use. Competition-based pricing. Setting the price based upon prices of the similar competitor products. Competitive pricing is based on three types of competitive product: Products have...
Great presentation from Guy Kawasaki. It’s a few years old now however still worth a watch – “The Art of the Start” @ TiECon 2006...
A blog for web developers about all things ecommerce.
A Heartbeat script may be the end of your session time-out frustrations. We have all been there. Updating a web form and after working on it for quite a while the phone rings or somebody need our attention. You go back to you web form and finish it, then submit it...
FWIW - My take on the new Apple iPad
iPad, from a developer's perspective When I watched Steve Jobs introduce the Apple iPad on Wednesday, my first reaction was, this is cool, but it really didn't move me. Like the MacBook Air, it impressed me as innovative and kind of "wiz-bang" but it doesn't have the horse power to replace...
Don't go public with your site before you're ready!
Clients like to see what we are up to, right? As web developers we need share our progress with our clients as we wok on their new sites, but we only want to share our work with them or a select group users. That being said you'd...
Continuing participation in Adobe Community Professionals
I'm very pleased to have been selected to continue my participation in the Adobe Community Professionals program! This program affords me the opportunity to give back to a community that has been such a large part of my career! It also gives me a chance to stay on the inside...
Mystery of the missing order...
I received a tech support email the other day that raised a topic I thought would be worth covering here. The email, stated that there was a transaction that was showing on the users payment gateway, but not in the store database... How could this happen? ...
Sometimes as web developers we run into situations where we must do our level best to save the client from themselves. This happens often enough where I thought it would be a good idea to share some of out tech support experiences. I believe what we share...
Groove Commerce eCommerce Blog
Design 1, 2, 3: A Valentine Paid Link = Chain Pharmacy Fail
Of all the things that February represents in America: Black History Month, American History Month, Heart Month, Snack Food Month, Children’s Dental Health Month, International Friendship Month; February is widely known for being the month of loooooove, by which I mean artificial hearts and gift exchanges. Yup, Valentine’s Day. The...
How’s Your Online Consistency?
We all know that brand consistency is necessary between your different print marketing efforts. When you get your business card redesigned, you know it's time to revisit your letterhead and collateral as well. Consistency online. The consistency in your branding online is often just as (or sometimes more) important than your...
Design 1, 2, 3: Discount Perfume eTailer – It’s in the Details
Overall, the discount perfume website that I’ve chosen for this month’s Design 1, 2, 3 isn’t actually too bad. I don’t love the aesthetic of the site, but it’s nice for what it is: pastel hues and simple text links all fairly well organized to create a visual hierarchy. The...
Win Free Shipping Supplies for a Year
Groove Commerce client Shipping Supply worked up a pretty spiffy contest that's getting some cool press. Shipping Supply is giving away free shipping supplies for one whole year to one lucky fan...Facebook Fan, that is. Groove Commerce was thrilled to design the landing page and email for this contest, so...
GoBeyondIT Gets a Groove Commerce Site Design
Amidst the hustle and bustle of the holidays, Groove Commerce and GoBeyondIT worked tirelessly to launch GoBeyond's brand new website. So we're happy to announce the new website is now live! Maryland-based GoBeyondIT specializes in managed IT services for small businesses that are looking to focus on running their business,...
I know it’s the holidays, and you all are probably only half-focused on your work. So I’m going to keep this month’s Usable short and sweet. I found a really great study on “Label Placement in Forms” by Matt Penzo at UXMatters.com that I wanted to bring to your attention...