E-commerce Sales Increase 13.7 Percent in 3Q
Hello there! If you are new here, you might want to subscribe to the RSS feed for updates on this topic.Powered by WP Greet Box WordPress Plugin“The third quarter 2011 e-commerce estimate increased 13.7 percent from the third quarter of 2010.” – US Census Bureau News, 11/17/2011 The Census Bureau of the Department of Commerce released … Continue Reading
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Wash Safe Industries
Wash Safe Industries launches its new website at www.Wash-Safe.com. The new, faster site is designed to give Wash Safe customers more conveniences and an easier shopping experience. The existing site was migrated to a new e-commerce platform to handle increased traffic and to provide additional features for both consumer and proprietor. Wash Safe provides unique environmentally-safe … Continue Reading
Search Engine Ranking for October 2011
Google tops search engine rankings — continues its dominance in the search market. comScore released their search analysis for October 2011, and the results were predictable. Google continued to lead the search market with 65.6 percent of the search queries. This was an increase of 0.3 percent over the previous month. Yahoo was down 0.3 percent … Continue Reading
Fix for Passing Magento Session IDs
We often use shared SSL’s when building e-commerce sites. It’s a convenient way of hosting multiple stores without having to purchase separate SSL certificates for each site. Most of our e-commerce clients manage multiple stores within a single Magento or OpenCart installation. Recently, we found a problem with Magento where the customer’s session ID was … Continue Reading
5 E-commerce Tips You Need to Know
Recently, someone we met at a social gathering asked us if we could take a quick look at their e-commerce web site and make some quick recommendations. They were not having great success in getting ranked in Google, and even less success in converting visitors into buyers. After taking a look at their site, we … Continue Reading
7 Billion People
The Internet is buzzing with the announcement of the birth of the 7 billionth child. The United Nations Population Fund puts the world population at 7 billion people today. However, the US Census Bureau counts the current population at 6,971,933,858. According to their estimates, the world population will reach 7 billion in March 2012. Whichever statistic … Continue Reading
Free Shipping This Holiday Season
Nine in 10 online retailers (92.5%) say they plan to offer Free Shipping this holiday season. The National Retail Federation, citing a survey conducted by BIGresearch, notes that this figure is up from 84.8 percent in 2010. Online Retailers Prepare for Holidays The Study, conducted by BIGresearch for Shop.org, surveyed 1,685 consumers from September 19 … Continue Reading
The New Target Website: Lessons Learned
A couple of years ago, Target decided to end its arrangement with Amazon. For the last ten years they used Amazon’s e-commerce platform, fulfillment services and web hosting. The outsourcing cost Target a reportedly $100 million in online commissions annually. So it seemed logical that Target would take their brand and create their own online … Continue Reading
Online Sales Tax
Under a Supreme Court ruling, known as the “Quill” decision, retailers are only required to collect online sales tax in states where they also have a physical store. Consumers are required to report any sales taxes owed for online purchases, thus placing the burden of reporting sales tax on the consumer. States see this as … Continue Reading
Localizing OpenCart for Language, Currency
Bret’s series on OpenCart 1.5 continues with instructions on how to localize your OpenCart installation. His step-by-step instructions are easy to follow, and show you exactly how to create your own “American English” language file. To read the entire article, please visit “Localizing OpenCart for Language, Currency” at Ecommerce Developer. Bret is an OpenCart expert … Continue Reading
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Online Shopping to be Only Good Retailing News
The news on the economy continues to be a drag on holiday spirits. Everyone from presidential candidates to the local … Continue Reading
