There are a few simple things to consider when selling to overseas customers. If your online store ships orders to other countries, you will want to make a few changes to your store to be more “international friendly”. Here’s how.

We recently finished catching up on all the ShopSite 10 SP1 upgrade requests that we received since the new version was officially released two weeks ago. It was quite a busy time here at LexiConn. We received a few emails asking about the status of upgrades, as it took a few days to get to some of the requests. Here’s what happens “behind the scenes” when a new ShopSite version is released…

While the focus for Cyber Monday and Black Friday has been on the large retailer, we wanted to see how small businesses performed during these two important online shopping days. The results were surprising.

The latest version of ShopSite, 10 SP1, introduces a number of new features. In order for merchants to take advantage of these new additions, there are template tags that must be added to custom templates. Here is a summary of the new features and information on how to implement each one.

AddThis.com is a website service that allows webpages to easily share their content with many social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Digg, etc… One of the more popular sharing sites is with Facebook. However, people looking to share a page / product on Facebook may not get the title, description, and thumbnail image pre-populated as you would like.

How many steps a customer must go through to complete and online purchase is an often debated number. Some people think one step is ideal, and other range from two to five. We’ll take a look at what a few prominent bloggers think, and what we have found to work well for our SMB clients.

The latest version of ShopSite, version 10 Service Pack 1 (SP1), is due out soon. We’re actually in the middle of beta testing the new version. And from what we’ve seen so far, it’s a great release chock full of new features. Here’s what you need to know for the upcoming release.

Although ShopSite is a full featured, top-notch ecommerce package, there are a number of add-ons that can compliment the software and offer many great features for any ecommerce store. Here is our top 10 list of essential ShopSite add-on modules.

Although a merchant’s first reaction to a negative customer review of a product might be to delete that submission, allowing “bad” reviews on an ecommerce website will likely have a positive impact on sales and more satisfied buyers. The old saying “Any press is good press” applies to customer reviews as well.

There are a number of ways to arrange page links and products in ShopSite. We’ll take a look at the standard methods, and offer a few undocumented tips for advanced sorting options.