Tweet Last year we took a look at 2010 Holiday Sales including Black Friday and Cyber Monday. We examined at random a sampling of small ecommerce merchants that we host, and looked at average order volume per day. We drew a few conclusions and saw how the SMB market stacked up against the big retailers. […]
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…
This was the view from my house down the driveway after the freak snowstorm this past weekend. It’s amazing the damage snow can do when the trees still have most of their leaves. I just got power back today, so I’m returning to the digital world full-time.
Here’s what I found to be interesting and useful last month from around the web…
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.
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…
