- 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 7:37pm -

Form interaction is an important part of any ecommerce website, since it allows users to communicate to the merchant.This article is the 36th in a series created to demonstrate how to use WordPress to develop an ecommerce site that sells virtual pr…
- 4 days ago, 16 May 12, 8:15pm -

The HTML5 audio element offers designers and developers a new way to deliver rich content for most current browsers. And for older browsers, HTML5 players often contain a Flash fallback.Here is a list of HTML5 audio players. Some of the players are…
- 5 days ago, 15 May 12, 6:24pm -

The mysqlimport client lets developers import simple delimited text files into like-named MySQL tables from the Linux command line.Data migration is a common task for any modern business, as vendors or third-party service providers often drop files…
- 6 days ago, 14 May 12, 8:34pm -

MySQL allows rows from several tables to be simultaneously updated, accelerating many common database tasks.Businesses often rely on a number of database-driven software solutions as well as external data for everything from purchasing and inventor…
- 9 days ago, 11 May 12, 7:44pm -

Every ecommerce site needs a contact form, giving users an easy way to ask questions or make suggestions.Adding a contact form to a hosted version of WordPress is as simple as adding some HTML markup, writing a bit of CSS, and creating a short cust…
- 11 days ago, 9 May 12, 8:38pm -

Code generators are good things. If you’re a new designer, HTML5 and CSS3 generators allow you to experiment with the code, manipulate it, and see how it works. If you’re an experienced designer, generators are simple and functional tools to comp…
- 12 days ago, 8 May 12, 8:53pm -

- 13 days ago, 7 May 12, 7:58pm -

Webbots, spiders, crawlers, screen scrapers, and similar scripts power major Internet firms like Google, provide significant competitive advantages for businesses, and may someday empower shoppers in what one technologist calls the “Intention Econo…
- 16 days ago, 4 May 12, 9:23pm -

While most web developers could build an application to send email newsletters and manage subscriber lists, it is often a lot easier to use an established email service provider (ESP).In this article, I will described how to connect an email newsle…
- 18 days ago, 2 May 12, 9:21pm -

Over the next few years, the growth in online retail sales in markets such as Western Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America is expected to outpace U.S. growth. Given this increase in cross-border e-commerce, many retailers are rushing to reach new m…
- 1 day ago, 19 May 12, 12:00pm -

For all the anticipation leading up to Facebook's initial public offering, opinions about how it performed are decidedly mixed. Clearly, though, the market didn't think the stock, which started at $38 per unit, was a grand bargain: Facebook ended tra…
- 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 9:58pm -

As Facebook launched its IPO on Friday, it was hit with yet another class action lawsuit over its practice of tracking of users even after they had logged out of its website. The amended consolidated class action complaint was filed by Stewarts Law i…
- 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 9:24pm -

Samsung overtook Nokia to become the world's top cellular phone maker earlier this year, shipping more than 92 million handsets in the first quarter. The company's Galaxy S II smartphone had stellar sales, reaching 20 million. The third time might be…
- 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 9:07pm -

Wearing his trademark hoodie, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg virtually rang Nasdaq's opening bell from Silicon Valley this morning to kick off the start of what will be a very interesting Friday. This is, of course, Facebook IPO day -- the long-awaited…
- 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 5:45pm -

HP is planning significant layoffs with the aim of increasing efficiency and focusing on new products, according to a recent report citing an anonymous source. The company could lay off more than 30,000 workers, or nearly 10 percent of the company's…
- 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 5:38pm -

In the U.S. market, the percentage of broadband households owning and connecting at least one product besides PCs to the Internet has increased 45 percent between 2010 and 2011. Today, approximately 40 percent of all U.S. broadband households own at…
- 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 12:00pm -

This spring has seen a raft of software company events and announcements, and they've been good meetings full of real news and important new developments. It is as if these companies bided their time during the worst of the recession, building new pr…
- 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 12:00pm -

Twitter has made an important overture to privacy advocates: It is giving users the ability to opt out of being tracked on the service by enabling the Do Not Track feature in the Firefox browser. Ed Felten, chief technology officer for the Federal Tr…
- 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 10:47pm -

The image-based social networking site Pinterest has raised $100 million in a financing round, and this brings the value of the company to around $1.5 billion, an unnamed source told All Things D. Rakuten, one of Japan's biggest online retail operato…
- 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 8:40pm -

In a Web world where alot of data is created and shared every second of the day, being able to manageall of that information can be the difference between ‘Net success and failure.As such, the majority of digital marketers surveyed in a recent…
- 24 mins ago, 20 May 12, 4:00pm -

Businesses looking to implement a video strategy into their website marketing efforts might want to consider leveraging SmartVideo technology.SundaySky’s SmartVideo solution offers a personalized way to engage with consumers. The solution's goal…
- 20 hours ago, 19 May 12, 8:00pm -

In the aftermath of Facebook’s historic IPO on Friday, an interesting new survey on the technology/Internet sector's mergers and acquisitions landscape has surfaced.Released by the law firm Morrison & Foerster and tech market intelligence firm 45…
- 1 day ago, 19 May 12, 4:00pm -

Everybody and their ousted Brazilian co-founders are talking about the Facebook IPO today. So, when the editors at Website Magazine held a closed-door brainstorming session about the day’s content, we were unanimously in favor of one thing and one…
- 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 6:30pm -

CafePress merchants will now be able to bring customized online commerce to their YouTube Merch Store. This new feature will allow CafePress Shop owners to obtain more conversions by displaying merchandise on their YouTube channels. Inventory can…
- 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 1:00pm -

A new suite of tools from e-commerce outsourcing company Digital River are aiming to help online merchants find additional ways to drive revenue across multiple platforms.The App Practice suite offers online merchants ways to monetize and distrib…
- 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 11:00am -

I suppose you could chalk it up to a crazy coincidence or merely to the fact that I was in a newsletter-reading frame of mind for a change, but for the first time since I’d begun receiving them some time ago, I read this morning’s edition of Link…
- 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 7:30pm -

There is a bundle of new announcements coming from user management platform Janrain today, including new platform capabilities that will enable businesses to better acquire, engage and monetize online visitors, as well as new social extensions that w…
- 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 5:20pm -

The marketing mania of Pinterest has waned a bit the past several weeks, but that’s hasn’t stopped consumers from visiting the site (see Compete.com chart below) or brands seeking ways to participate on the social pinboard site. But if we’v…
- 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 4:20pm -

Most Web workers know that email marketing is one of the most effective strategies that businesses can use to reach their customers, but a new study reveals that one email marketing strategy outperforms the others.Email marketing provider StrongMai…
- 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 6:00am -

Amazingly, it is Rakuten and not one of the typical US players who are betting on Pinterest, one of the hottest e-commerce startups of the day. Together with the existing investors, the Japanese concern has invested $100 million: "Rakuten, one...
- 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 11:03am -

At this year’s NEXT conference in Berlin, Deutsche-Telekom-CEO René Obermann presented their new incubator programme named hub:raum. This programme will enable 10-15 startups per year to get a funding of up to 300,000 EUR and benefit from the corp…
- 4 days ago, 16 May 12, 10:59am -

Juvalia & You is already online, Pippa & Jean will launch shortly (German link), and further online driven shopping party and direct sales concepts will be following in the coming months. Why are shopping parties at this moment such a...
- 15 days ago, 5 May 12, 8:04pm -

What’s the superlative for online shopping? Being too lazy to do online shopping! Unless you don’t enjoy the online shopping experience per se, finding the right product, putting it into a shopping cart, providing one’s delivery address and cho…
- 17 days ago, 3 May 12, 11:47am -

How will Project A hit the jackpot? - At Exceed 2012 they haven't come out with it yet. However, today the news came out that Otto's Project A Ventures has joined nu3, a shopping site for dietary supplements. At Deutsche...
- 26 days ago, 24 Apr 12, 6:09pm -

A couple of weeks ago, an anonymous source wrote about the operations of Rocket Internet in South Africa. We are lucky to have had a couple of questions answered by their CTO, Nils Körber, who talks about commerce in South...
- 27 days ago, 23 Apr 12, 9:57am -

The Journal du Net has taken another look behind the scenes at French online supermarket Houra. As a daughter of the Belgian Cora group, Houra was able to reach profitability in 2006 after six years of operation. Revenues were at...
- 29 days ago, 21 Apr 12, 7:07am -

What? Strategic tactic? Is there a difference? Does it matter? It absolutely amazes me how often I have met people in business that do not know the difference, let alone that they have either one of them.It’s more the opposite....
- 30 days ago, 20 Apr 12, 8:32am -

Regularly, the commerce community passionately talks about which shop software is the coolest, hippest, fastest, feature-richest (if that is even a word) or simply the best. Believe me, having written several books on various shop software stacks suc…
- 32 days ago, 18 Apr 12, 7:55am -

Magento co-founder and CTO Yoav Kutner has for the first time publicly commented on his departure from eBay ("eBay Doesn’t Understand The Meaning Of Open"): "As for why he left, Kutner says the execs that coordinated the deal at eBay...
- 35 days ago, 15 Apr 12, 8:10pm -

Francesca StaAna is from AdMedia, an online advertising network that connects advertisers to consumers through a number of innovative products including ad remarketing, affiliate programs, pay per click advertising, and more. Getting your online s…
- 16 days ago, 4 May 12, 4:30pm -

The folks at HubSpot created an exhaustive timeline infographic of the history of marketing. Check it out below: © HubSpot, Provider of All-in-One Marketing Software.
- 82 days ago, 28 Feb 12, 6:04pm -

Looks like I post a lot more about Google AdWords these days. Last time I tried this the highest ranking term was “shopping.” Are there any other topics you’d like me to post about? Please let me know…
- 3 Feb 12, 4:12pm -

What is Remarketing/Retargeting? Retargeting works by tagging every visitor to your site and then displaying your ads to those customers on other sites in the Advertising network. These types of ads usually perform better than standard display ads. T…
- 2 Feb 12, 6:28pm -

Think you spend a lot of money AdWords? Think again… Here is a breakdown from WordStream of where Google gets its money from. © WordStream, Provider of AdWords solutions.
- 24 Jan 12, 6:24pm -

Create a Google+ Page The first step to getting set up with Google Plus is to create your Business Page. This is different from a Personal Profile. You can set up a Business Page here: https://plus.google.com/pages/manage Add The +1 Button In order t…
- 18 Jan 12, 4:07pm -

Google recently started testing a new ad extension called the Communication Ad Extension. This allows merchants to collect customer email signups directly in the ad. As of now, this seems to be a beta program with no information published by Google b…
- 17 Jan 12, 10:28pm -

The folks at CPC Strategy just published a cool infographic on Amazon’s amazing growth. Check it out below. Source: CPC Strategy Blog
- 17 Jan 12, 9:52pm -

Jimmy Rodriguez is CTO and co-founder of 3DCart, developer of an e-commerce suite for businesses of all sizes. As an authority on e-commerce best practices, Jimmy combines more than 8 years as an e-commerce developer and web programmer with SEO, soci…
- 21 Nov 11, 10:49pm -

This post was written by Helen Fang, marketing manager for Vendio.  Vendio offers ecommerce software and helps users in every phase of online selling, from finding the best products to sell online to opening a 100% free web store. Auctioneers…
- 10 Oct 11, 6:35pm -

I bet you’re looking to stand out in the search engines. Right? Of course, we all are. Especially e-commerce sites, whose business often is so completely tied to search engine traffic. Although we usually focus on getting our pages ranked higher, i…
- 31 Jan 12, 9:52pm -

Well, readers, how many of you do I have left? I just got home from teaching a Zumba class, and patting myself on the back for accomplishing one of my New Year’s resolutions for last year, while at the same time knowing my plans to write the first…
- 2 Jan 12, 4:30pm -

One of the problems in the B2B space is that your products are sold based on customer need, not desire, beauty, or trends. It’s much easier to get customers talking about fashion or entertainment than about, well, ID cards. Retailer IDWholesaler.co…
- 1 Aug 11, 2:30pm -

Shoppers have come to expect the human touch almost as much online as they do when they visit a store in person at their local mall. Given this expectation, let's discuss how you can optimize customer service emails to create a stronger relationship…
- 21 Jul 11, 3:50pm -

Which is a Better measurement for Success in Today’s Online World? Mark Twain was famed for many things, but the one phrase of his I like the best always has been, “there are lies, damn lies and then statistics”. A good statistician can probabl…
- 13 Jul 11, 4:13pm -

We’re a community of “glass is half empty” kind of shoppers. I was watching an old rerun of “The Big Bang Theory” Friday night, where Sheldon described himself as being a person of infinite patience, having once waited for two-and-a-half ho…
- 1 Jul 11, 9:30pm -

Data feeds are an integral part of marketing an ecommerce site. A data feed is nothing more than a list of your products, along with certain product details, in a structured format. The details included in the file depend on your site needs and the r…
- 20 Jun 11, 1:00pm -

Comparison Shopping Engines, or CSEs, have grown in popularity and number over the past decade. They represent a large marketing opportunity for online merchants. These sites take submitted product data feeds from many merchants, match up the product…
- 31 May 11, 3:00pm -

Not a lot of small ecommerce sites use video yet. It’s a shame, because video has promoted sales for larger retailers, and bloggers big and small already know the draw of video-based content. Videos can engage customers, drive additional traffic fr…
- 13 May 11, 3:14pm -

Great product images are a major key to success for any e-commerce store. A website has to do its best to replace a customer’s ability to see and touch the physical items like they would at the store. Many manufacturers will provide high-quality im…
- 11 May 11, 3:15pm -

This week’s infographic explores who looks and clicks on banner ads. Continuing the theme of consumer fears about privacy, it’s not just lack of interest that causes users to shun banner ads. Consumers believe banner ads will prove to haunt them…
- 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 8:04am -

I had the pleasure of sitting down with Kin Lane, an API Evangelist, blogger at KinLane.com and API Evangelist, contributor to Programmable Web, and all-around expert in APIs. Kin is an engineer who has been building database driven web apps for 12 y…
- 4 days ago, 16 May 12, 8:03am -

The May 26 deadline for compliance with the EU cookie law is rapidly approaching, and my heart goes out to all our friends affected by this ridiculous “solution” to a poorly defined problem. For a refresher on what the new law is about, check out…
- 6 days ago, 14 May 12, 11:42pm -

Is it the year of the mobile yet? Perhaps tablet penetration is only 13%, but 69% of tablet owners make a purchase from their device every month. This week’s infographic is courtesy of Mobtext and inMobi: The Role of Connected Devices in the Custom…
- 9 days ago, 11 May 12, 8:02am -

Since reporting late last year that Facebook sharing buttons, through the Open Graph, will morph into a variety of creative verbs and nouns beyond Like, Share and Recommend, custom integrations have been gradually popping up around the Web. Custom Fa…
- 11 days ago, 9 May 12, 8:03am -

In a recent Get Elastic post we looked at the business model of freemium, and 9 strategic mistakes to avoid. Today we drill down into the challenge of converting free users to premium — with tips to maximize your potential. Note: this article focus…
- 13 days ago, 7 May 12, 8:04am -

The latest bill ending in “PA” that’s buzzing the Internet is CISPA. What’s it all about? This week’s Infographic Friday explains why many people are concerned about its impact on privacy of communication. Click to enlarge infographic How c…
- 16 days ago, 4 May 12, 8:05am -

It’s that time again – here’s our roundup of 10 killer ecommerce and paid content posts from around the web this April. Kicking it off, Elastic Path’s own David Chiu guest posts at Econsultancy with Subscriptions 101: 3 Steps to Recurring Rev…
- 18 days ago, 2 May 12, 2:46pm -

Hero shots. Those photos of products or shiny happy people that represent what you are selling. They’re everywhere, often occupying a large area on your home page inside a banner graphic. Most websites use them – and many abuse them. A banner gra…
- 20 days ago, 30 Apr 12, 3:57pm -

This week’s installment of Infographic Friday How Do Social Login & Sharing Affect Ecommerce? is courtesy of Monetate. What’s most interesting to me is the increase in social sign on from last year to this year — at the expense of guest checkou…
- 22 days ago, 28 Apr 12, 5:07pm -

Amazon.com may be moving into uncharted territory in tablet computing.
- 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 5:03pm -

Guys love YouTube, so start-up web retailer Sharpmen is filling its site with YouTube videos to promote its limited-time sales of men’s apparel, tech gadgets, art and more. Think “GQ meets QVC online,” says CEO Yazid Aksas.
- 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 4:38pm -

An IRCE speaker discusses how to build customer loyalty through social media.
- 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 4:10pm -

The social network’s offering is the biggest technology initial public offering ever.
- 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 3:53pm -

Working French women shop on the web as much as those who stay at home.
- 2 days ago, 18 May 12, 2:07pm -

The social network stands to raise at least $16 billion when it goes public Friday. 
- 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 9:17pm -

Gifts led the spending increase, but apparel sales lagged last month.
- 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 8:22pm -

With the swipe of a finger, consumers can see benefits of a Sleep Number bed.
- 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 8:03pm -

The retailer tested the site with and without the badge to prove its worth.
- 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 5:24pm -

Consumers can choose when and where to receive orders from retailers.
- 3 days ago, 17 May 12, 4:20pm -