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Alternative Medicine Network Flourishes

Alternative Medicine Network Flourishes

A lot of the great products we know and love today were born out of personal need of the inventor. Karsten Solheim, the father ... 0 Comments | Read More »

Blog Platforms: Choose One that Fits Your Need

Blog Platforms: Choose One that Fits Your Need

You have bitten the bullet and decided to add a blog to your ecommerce site and make it a part of your marketing mix. You made ... 0 Comments | Read More »

Customer Service Focus - October 2005

Customer Service Focus - October 2005

Your goal as an e-tailer should be to amaze customers with an unusually high level of service. Consider these customer service ... 0 Comments | Read More »

Email Marketing: Cultivating a Successful List

Email Marketing: Cultivating a Successful List

Many old-school marketers built mailing lists like your favorite aunt would make spaghetti: Cook a ton of it, and throw it agai... 0 Comments | Read More »

Hosting Companies: Top 10 Questions to Ask

Hosting Companies: Top 10 Questions to Ask

I field many phone calls in any given day. And never does a day pass where I don’t get a call about someone having trouble with... 3 Comments | Read More »

Search Engine Indexing with Sitemaps

Search Engine Indexing with Sitemaps

One of the most common problems ecommerce websites have with rankings is that portions of their websites are not included in th... 0 Comments | Read More »

Securing an SSL Certificate

Securing an SSL Certificate

Overview How do you know that I am who I say I am? Likewise, how do I know you are who you say you are? And, if we can’t cata... 2 Comments | Read More »

Understanding Common Web Error Messages

Understanding Common Web Error Messages

Over the years in the interactive marketing business, any consultant worth his or her salt has faced the dilemma of assisting a... 0 Comments | Read More »

Web Marketing: Hitting the Target

Web Marketing: Hitting the Target

Over the summer, I had the opportunity to try my hand at archery during a Boy Scout camp. It’s actually quite hard to hit the t... 0 Comments | Read More »

Autoresponders: Follow-up for Success

Autoresponders: Follow-up for Success

Something that I often suggest is that companies give something away on their website. I believe that this is essential even fo... 0 Comments | Read More »

Basics of Search Engine Optimization

Basics of Search Engine Optimization

Understanding how can you get a substantial increase in "free" website traffic through basic search engine optimization begins ... 2 Comments | Read More »

How To Choose A Shopping Cart

How To Choose A Shopping Cart

Good business is about good decisions. Good decisions are ones made after serious research and data gathering. One of the decis... 5 Comments | Read More »

HTML Primer for the Tech-Challenged

HTML Primer for the Tech-Challenged

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Proin et velit ut mi dictum ultrices. Duis porta massa sed lorem rutr... 0 Comments | Read More »

Navigation is Key

Navigation is Key

Online shoppers need guidance about finding what they need, and information about the pages they are viewing. We get so used to... 0 Comments | Read More »

Star Crossed Productions Finds Niche

Star Crossed Productions Finds Niche

Kathy Smith is 46 years old. She started out as a high school teacher. “Some days it was like walking into a battle zone.” The... 2 Comments | Read More »

Ten Things to Consider Before You Blog

Ten Things to Consider Before You Blog

You’ve heard a lot about web logs or blogs. That’s because during the past six years blogs have evolved from a highly personal ... 2 Comments | Read More »

Web Graphics: Why Are We So Limited?

Web Graphics: Why Are We So Limited?

As a Web designer and developer, I have worked with graphics in a variety of formats. Anybody who uses Adobe Photoshop – the st... 3 Comments | Read More »

A Primer in Shipping Calculations

A Primer in Shipping Calculations

Set aside all the cool features you’d love your MIVA Merchant store to have, and those you aren’t sure how to accomplish. The m... 1 Comment | Read More »

A Tangled Web We Weave

A Tangled Web We Weave

The choice between having nothing nice to say and saying nothing at all, at least on the web, is becoming increasingly easier b... 0 Comments | Read More »

Attracting Hispanic Customers Online Not As Easy As Uno, Dos, Tres

Attracting Hispanic Customers Online Not As Easy As Uno, Dos, Tres

As online business owners and marketers, you've heard the staggering statistics regarding Internet usage among Hispanics in the... 0 Comments | Read More »

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