Essential eCommerce Features

There are a ton of eCommerce Shopping Carts to be found by doing a simple google search. We have compiled a list of essential features you need to evaluate your options...
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List Management

There are as many ways to manage lists of emails. Are you getting the most from your list - do you even know what it should be doing for you?
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New Recurring Rules

Do you sell recurring products? Read this to learn about the FTC's new rules that could land you with a big fine if you get it wrong...
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How Do You Get Paid?

October 25, 2010 · 0 comments

When I look around at different shopping carts, I see a lot of different payment gateways supported by the cart. So I started to ask myself what are the gateways the an ecommerce solution really needs to support? How do you get paid? Continue Reading

Do You Own Your Data?

October 21, 2010 · 0 comments

One of the hidden assumptions people have about using service providers is around data ownership. Who owns the data. The answer usually is you (I would run away from any provider that answered differently). The more important question is can you get to that data and potential extract it from the system? Continue Reading

Paypal Strikes Again

October 13, 2010 0 comments

We’ve worked hard to make our applications as user friendly as possible. We go so far as to make cookies not required for our shopping cart. A lot of our clients sell 1 product at a time and their customers go from the add to cart button to the checkout process. This works great and [...]

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Common CSS For 80% of Your Customizations

October 8, 2010 0 comments

I just spent a little bit of time with a customer working on the look and feel of their web form. By starting with a predefined template that we offer, the changes they wanted to make above and beyond required only a little bit of knowledge. Here are the top X css properties that one [...]

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You Need To Do More Then Send Emails!

October 6, 2010 0 comments

Are you just sending emails to your list? If that is all you do, you are missing a big opportunity!

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Is Your Hosting Provider Reliable?

October 5, 2010 0 comments

One of the major (need to qualify that as major in the niche) shopping cart vendors had a significant outage this weekend. I just heard about it; the gist is the entire service was down for 2 and 1/2 days (roughly) from what I can tell. And you know what is worse then the service [...]

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Can Your Employees See Too Much Data?

October 4, 2010 0 comments

If you are running any kind of business, you no doubt have employees or at least consultants from time to time. Whether they are running aspects of your business or just help to update your website, they need access to your systems. But do they need full access? In fact, full access can be dangerous.

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Google’s Instant Search Overblown Brouhaha

October 1, 2010 0 comments

It seems everywhere I turn these days, affiliate marketers are all commenting on google’s new instant search feature. There is a great summary with lots of quotes on an affiliate this affiliate managers blog. The gist is we (affiliate marketers) don’t like the change – we think it will kill long tail key words. However, [...]

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Don’t Do This To Build Your Email List!

September 27, 2010 1 comment

Are you trying to build an email list. Here is a short snippet on what not to do.

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Are Pirates Stealing From Your Shopping Cart?

September 24, 2010 0 comments

Do you sell downloadable files (efiles)? If you do, are pirates stealing from you? More than likely yes! Do you know how, or even how to figure it out?

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