Tweet Last year around this time, I wrote a blog post about the 2011 USPS failure. They made a major unannounced change to their rate service that thousands of ecommerce applications depend on for returning shipping rates to customers. It caused major issues and rate problems for many online merchants. Fast forward to 2012, and […]

One of our ecommerce hosting clients contacted us a few weeks ago, excited about an upcoming opportunity. Their company was going to be featured on Good Morning America in the popular segment “Deals and Steals”. We have worked with clients who have appeared on The Today Show and Oprah, so we had a good idea of what to expect.

One of our ecommerce clients recently had the opportunity to have national exposure on NBC’s Jills Steals and Deals. This segment on the Today Show on NBC often results in a very high volume of buyers in a very short period of time.

We’ve had a number of clients over the past few years appear on national shows like Oprah, Food Network, NBC, etc… We’ve got some experience with this sort of thing, so we know what to expect and how to plan for it.

Or so we thought…

Email campaigns are an excellent way to keep in touch with your customers and get them to come back to your store, but have you ever wanted to target a specific group based on what they ordered? Maybe you’re carrying new products that would be of special interest to people that purchased something similar in the past, or you just want to send a coupon out to people who ordered a certain product.

ShopSite has just released the latest maintenance version for v11 SP1 (11 SP1 r1, or 11.1.1 numerically).

This version addresses a number of small bugs and adds a few small enhancements to the 11 sp1 release last month.

Not long ago we wrote about how you could manually add a My Account Link to your site, and today we’re going to review another useful link, but one that’s very easy to code incorrectly by accident…

Tweet “A faster site is a better site” – me That’s my quote for the day. But don’t take my word for it. Google thinks speed is important. So important it’s now a ranking factor. Customers think speed is important. So important that nearly a third will leave your site if it does not load […]

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…

ShopSite has just released version 11 SP1 of its award-winning ecommerce software. We are excited about this new version, as it has a number of great new features and enhancements.

This version has been extensively tested by ShopSite, by us, and a number of our merchants, and is a “must have” upgrade for any ShopSite merchant.

Here are a few highlighted new features and tips with 11 SP1…

When you have an online store that ships internationally, displaying your products in another currency can be helpful to your customers, but which currency do you select? ShopSite supports the display of an alternate currency so you could pick one to display but you’ll then have to keep the exchange rate updated on a regular basis.

Dynamic Converter, a free script available at www.dynamicconverter.com, resolves both of these items for you by allowing your customers to select the alternate currency they want to see and the exchange rates update automatically every day.