Ecommerce Articles
Cart of the Week: Sure Solutions’ Actinic Shopping Cart
Practical eCommerce counts over 300 different shopping cart platforms. In this, our “Cart Of The Week” feature, we’ll profile—b... 0 Comments | Read More »
Credit Card Theft: Steps to Protect You and Your Customers
Having even one credit card number stolen from your site can tarnish your reputation and impact sales for years. It is importan... 4 Comments | Read More »
Video Boosts Online Sales, Merchants Confirm
With the holidays ahead, and a new inflatable fruit cake product selling only sparsely, Seattle toy store Archie McPhee this ... 4 Comments | Read More »
Survey: Female Shoppers are Influenced by Their Friends
Personal recommendations and coupons or flyers passed on by friends are key factors in how female shoppers select products, acc... 0 Comments | Read More »
Secure Checkout Most Important in Attracting New Customers
A newly released consumer survey from Harris Interactive, a research firm, and Volusion, a hosted shopping cart company, sugges... 1 Comment | Read More »
Camino Web Browser is Best in Mac Universe
The Camino Project released its newest version for Mac OS-X in September 2008. Version 1.6.4 of this union of Mozilla and Maci... 0 Comments | Read More »
Conversion Review: Coffee Purveyor Needs Clear Purchase Path
JL Hufford is a gourmet coffee company that started life with a small café in Lafayette, IN. The company went online six years ... 0 Comments | Read More »
Cart of the Week: MightyMerchant Offers Full-Service Ecommerce Platform
Practical eCommerce counts over 300 different shopping cart platforms. In this, our “Cart Of The Week” feature, we’ll profile—b... 0 Comments | Read More »
Direct Traffic is Better Than Google Traffic
Not all web traffic is equal and understanding the value of direct traffic can help online retailers hone their marketing. “Di... 4 Comments | Read More »
New PCI Compliance Standards Take Effect
The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Security Standards Council recently released a new version of its Data Security Standard (DSS),... 0 Comments | Read More »
SEO Report Card: Socialcouture.com Stresses Social Media
I like parties, and Social Couture is a high-end party supply website. On its corresponding MySpace site (always a good thing t... 0 Comments | Read More »
Online Retailers Want More Web Traffic
Preliminary results from a new Practical eCommerce survey showed that at least 63 percent of respondents thought traffic genera... 2 Comments | Read More »
Yugster.com Shares its Fulfillment Strategy
The old-school approach to order fulfillment doesn’t fly for many Internet retailers. Warehousing, packing, shipping, and retur... 2 Comments | Read More »
Maxthon: China’s Ad Smashing, Proxy Switching, Web Browser
The Maxthon web browser brings several great features to the same platform as Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) and lets users... 0 Comments | Read More »
Effective Return Policies Save Money and Earn Business
If there is one thing that every online retailer hates and fears, it’s returns. Many great stores fight to keep return rates be... 2 Comments | Read More »
Find and Measure Links Better with Linkscape
One of the most important attributes of search engine optimization (SEO) is link building, which is garnering quality inbound l... 1 Comment | Read More »
Accessibility: Making Video and Audio Usable For The Deaf
Using video and audio in a website increases the probability of an accessibility problem. Where text can be readily translated ... 0 Comments | Read More »
Selling Products Online: What Legal Jurisdiction Applies?
Most ecommerce merchants want consumers from all over, whether that means all 50 U.S. states, Canada, Mexico, Europe, or the wo... 2 Comments | Read More »
Opera 9.6 Browser: Links Email, Desktop, and Mobile
If you want evidence that there is a hot browser war underway, you need look no further than the new Opera 9.6 web browser that... 1 Comment | Read More »
Automated Chat Captures Prospects After They Leave A Site
UpSellit’s SMARTagent promises to automatically bring shoppers back to your site and close potential sales. It’s part user-enga... 0 Comments | Read More »
