ShopSite and Global Variables

Tweet ShopSite templates often use global variables to store and display values, such as page types (page, product, cart, etc…), layout options (colors, widths, etc…), loop counters and more. Here are a few important facts about variables and their usage within ShopSite templates: 1.  Variables may contain either numeric or string values.  When assigning a […]

How We Helped a Magento Store Quickly Handle Thousands of Orders

Tweet One of our ecommerce clients was recently featured on NBC’s Today Show in the Segment “Jill’s Steals and Deals”. The Today Show highlights a few products with very aggressive discounts, and generates tens of thousands of visitors in just a few minutes. This particular client uses Magento for their ecommerce software. Magento presents many […]

2013 Small Business Ecommerce Holiday Stats

Tweet You’ve probably seen the stats on how the big e-tailers performed this past 2013 holiday season. What hasn’t been covered is how the smaller ecommerce merchants did overall. Here is what we’ve seen this past holiday season… First, the big stats comScore released their overall numbers for 2013. They reported that for 2013 (for […]

Top Ecommerce Posts and Articles for December 2013

Tweet Just one more day left to 2013. It’s been an exciting year here at LexiConn, and we have a lot in store for 2014! We want to thank all of our loyal clients and readers for all of your support, and we look forward to a great and prosperous New Year!! Now on to […]

ShopSite Analytics: Setting Engagement Goals

Tweet In this post, we are covering the use of Google Analytics (GA) ‘Goals’ to monitor Customer Engagement.  In addition to standard reporting of goals, we can also monitor them using GA’s REAL-TIME view – lots of fun when a big promotion is in progress Conversions > Goals Real-Time > Conversions For our purposes, we’ll […]

How the Small Ecommerce Merchant Fared for Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2013

Tweet As always, comScore and IBM have released their 2013 holiday stats for the largest online merchants. The numbers paint a broad picture for the overall state of online shopping this year. But lost in the behemoth figures are the smaller online merchants. How did they do this holiday shopping season? First the big numbers […]

ShopSite Tip – Two Things You Must Do For Mobile Pages

Tweet Did you know that Google indexes mobile versions of websites?  It does this so it can provide the mobile URL to a user who’s searching Google on a smartphone, but this can sometimes cause duplicate content in search results.  That can then lead to lower rankings in the results then you would otherwise receive. […]

ShopSite Version 12 – What’s New, What You Need to Know

Tweet ShopSite’s latest ecommerce software, version 12, is now live. It’s a great release full of new features and enhancements. A full breakdown of all the new features may be found in the ShopSite help docs for v12. ShopSite also has a page in their Template Cookbook for Tips on Version 12 Tags. A few […]

Quick Thinking Helps Our Ecommerce Merchant Cash In on Good Morning America

Tweet One of our ecommerce ShopSite merchants was recently featured on Good Morning America’s Deals and Steals segment. This feature on GMA highlights products with steep discounts, and is very popular across the United States. It often results in tens of thousands of visitors in a short period of time, and hundreds to thousands of […]

How to Remove Your Development Site From Google

Tweet There you are, diligently working on your developement / demo account, getting close to launching your brand new ecommerce site. You get an order that doesn’t look right. Upon investigating, you find that the order was not placed through your live site, but was placed on your development site! You quickly search google for […]