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Quick Query: Pilot Identifies Niche With PDF Aviation Maps

Quick Query: Pilot Identifies Niche With PDF Aviation Maps

In the United States there will be 590,349 pilots collectively flying some 28 million hours in 228,000 different aircraft this ... 4 Comments | Read More »

Trigger-Based Email Marketing Improves Sales and Customer Experience

Trigger-Based Email Marketing Improves Sales and Customer Experience

Trigger marketing is the next step for the critical ecommerce function of automated email communications. While traditional aut... 3 Comments | Read More »

Video Boosts Sales for Online Retailers

Video Boosts Sales for Online Retailers

At brick-and-mortar retailers, shoppers can stroll the isles, handle items, speak to clerks, and receive well placed merchandis... 8 Comments | Read More »

Web Widgets Come Of Age For Ecommerce Sites

Web Widgets Come Of Age For Ecommerce Sites

For executives like Braden Hoeppner, director of web sales for optical store Coastalcontacts.com, today’s web widgets are a fas... 0 Comments | Read More »

SEO Report Card: Icewraps.net

SEO Report Card: Icewraps.net

I went on a hike this weekend and it was a lot of fun—until the next day when I began to feel as if I had participated in... 2 Comments | Read More »

Seven Tactics to Boost Online Banner-ad Response Rates

Seven Tactics to Boost Online Banner-ad Response Rates

Ecommerce has been the great equalizer for retailers—a small book store in Iowa can oftentimes compete with Barnes & Noble,... 0 Comments | Read More »

Boost Sales with Google SEO Tools

Boost Sales with Google SEO Tools

As search engines have gotten better at discovering web content in many forms, manually submitting to them has become less of a... 3 Comments | Read More »

Magento's iPhone Theme: Mobile Commerce for the Masses?

Magento's iPhone Theme: Mobile Commerce for the Masses?

Magento Commerce, an open source ecommerce platform, has introduced an Apple iPhone specific theme that is potentially the firs... 9 Comments | Read More »

Christmas Is Coming: Six Quick Online Marketing Tips

Christmas Is Coming: Six Quick Online Marketing Tips

Christmas is coming. And now is the time for you to take a hard look at your current search engine marketing campaigns. With bi... 4 Comments | Read More »

Yahoo! Store Users: SSL Servers are Moving

Yahoo! Store Users: SSL Servers are Moving

Yahoo! Merchant Solutions, a leading ecommerce provider, is migrating its secure socket layer (SSL) certificates to new servers... 0 Comments | Read More »

Coordinate Pay-per-click Advertising With SEO Efforts

Coordinate Pay-per-click Advertising With SEO Efforts

The goal of a pay-per-click advertising campaign is to attract qualified traffic to a website in an effort to have searchers co... 3 Comments | Read More »

Pirated Software Rampant Among Personal Computer Users

Pirated Software Rampant Among Personal Computer Users

To somebody who has never owned or made his living creating and licensing intellectual property, it may not be a big deal. Rea... 4 Comments | Read More »

Open-Source Alternatives To Microsoft Office, Part II

Open-Source Alternatives To Microsoft Office, Part II

In part I of this series we looked at why the use of open-source software is now gaining momentum. Here, we take a look at some... 1 Comment | Read More »

Open-Source Alternatives To Microsoft Office, Part I

Open-Source Alternatives To Microsoft Office, Part I

Ten years ago, a tiny software community launched free Microsoft-like programs for those with UNIX or Linux computer operating ... 0 Comments | Read More »

Video Tutorial: CSS Positioning

Video Tutorial: CSS Positioning

The transition from using tables to create a page layout to using Cascading Style Sheets can be difficult to grasp at first, p... 0 Comments | Read More »

Landing Pages: Five Pointers to Boost Conversions

Landing Pages: Five Pointers to Boost Conversions

Website traffic is up. Your pay-per-click (PPC) ads are receiving traffic, and you’re reaching your monthly budget. Sounds like... 3 Comments | Read More »

PCI Report Card: Merchant X (A Photography Accessory Retailer)

PCI Report Card: Merchant X (A Photography Accessory Retailer)

Welcome to the inaugural PCI Report Card. In previous Practical eCommerce report cards, we’ve always been clear about the name ... 0 Comments | Read More »

Social Media Marketing

Social Media Marketing

Something my employer at Bizzuka said recently sparked my thinking. "What you're doing (in terms of marketing) will not just h... 1 Comment | Read More »

SEO Report Card: Starwest-botanicals.com

SEO Report Card: Starwest-botanicals.com

Starwest Botanicals’ home page begins with this statement: “Starwest Botanicals is your on-line supply source for bulk herbs an... 0 Comments | Read More »

Keyword Research: Wordpot Rivals KeywordDiscovery, Wordtracker

Keyword Research: Wordpot Rivals KeywordDiscovery, Wordtracker

While website architecture, link building, and template coding all affect search engine optimization, keyword research and plac... 0 Comments | Read More »

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