Mobile shopping is only on the rise these days. I’ve read a number of articles predicting 10-15 percent of *ALL* 2011 holiday ecommerce sales will come from mobile/tablet devices. Your store’s percentage may vary, but you can no longer ignore this growing segment.

Luckily, the latest version of ShopSite, version 11 service pack 1 (SP1) helps with built-in mobile support…

Google is rolling out a new service for ecommerce merchants…

Google Trusted Stores

It could be the end-all and be-all of trust seal programs… Or it could be another beta offering Google dismantles in a year or two.

Whatever the outcome, it would be foolish for SMB ecommerce merchants to ignore it.

Ahhh, September. The extreme heat is fading away here in Connecticut, and the kids are back in school. I’m definitely a summer kind of guy, so September is my last “good” month before the colder weather takes hold.

So if you find yourself indoors due to rain and cold, take a minute to check out a few solid URLs to help with your ecommerce business…

Tweet As summer starts to draw to a close, we start to turn our attention back to our businesses. The Christmas shopping season is right around the corner… I’ve listed a few links below that I found to be worth a read from the past month. TOP PICK:How to Make Your Customer Service Shine – […]

If you use real-time FedEx shipping rates in your online store, were you aware of the FedEx planned outages coming up next month? If not, this could cost you lost sales, as your cart would error out instead of returning shipping options. All it takes is a simple email signup…

This was the rainbow we saw overlooking Lake George last week. It was a nice vacation, but now it’s back to reality.

If you’re also back at work, here are a few articles from July I found interesting and helpful to ecommerce merchants…

As we mentioned last week, Google is requiring more data for product feeds. One of the new required fields is “Google Product Category”. However, Google also has a field named “Product Type” that is “strongly recommended”. Product Type has been around for a while.

Confused yet?

Google is once again making changes to their Google Product Search Feed Specifications for ecommerce merchants. In a recent blog post, Google states the latest changes are going to become “law” on September 22, 2011.

Google’s blog post has a good overview of the changes, but I thought I’d take a detailed look at the actual requirements so merchants can update their feeds to be in compliance…

ShopSite’s latest release, version 11, has been available since June 1st. Over the past 6 weeks, we’ve learned a lot about v11. I thought I’d share a few of the things we’ve discovered.

Fourth of July celebrations are right around the corner. Cookouts, pool parties, trips to the beach, and fireworks are probably on the docket for many of us. If you just can’t stay away from the computer and want to read up on what’s happening in ecommerce, enjoy these posts and pages…