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Lessons Learned: Practicalsports.com Owner Byron Tabor

Lessons Learned: Practicalsports.com Owner Byron Tabor

“Lessons Learned” is an occasional series where we ask seasoned ecommerce professionals about their mistakes and successes. For... 2 Comments | Read More »

Field Test: Order Management Software

Field Test: Order Management Software

In Field Test, Practical eCommerce has gathered twelve seasoned ecommerce merchants and asked each of them the same questions a... 0 Comments | Read More »

Improving Your Yahoo! Quality Index Score

Improving Your Yahoo! Quality Index Score

Most pay-per-click advertisers are familiar by now with concept of the PPC Quality Score. Advertisers running on the major sear... 0 Comments | Read More »

Facebook Widgets: Consider Sproutbuilder.com

Facebook Widgets: Consider Sproutbuilder.com

Last year I wrote about the potential of applications – or widgets – on the Facebook platform. At the time Facebook was one of ... 17 Comments | Read More »

Dr. J’s Pet Project

Dr. J’s Pet Project

To be honest, it was a little embarrassing to be the daughter of an entrepreneur who was trying to start up a mail order livest... 4 Comments | Read More »

Pay-Per-Click Bid Management Strategies

Pay-Per-Click Bid Management Strategies

My philosophy on pay-per-click bid management has always been to manage each keyword’s performance in each engine individually.... 3 Comments | Read More »

Practical eCommerce Blogger Wins eBay hall of Fame Award

Practical eCommerce Blogger Wins eBay hall of Fame Award

eBay expert and Practical eCommerce blogger Danna Crawford was out fishing with her daughters on her birthday, May 13. After a ... 15 Comments | Read More »

ICANN Exec On The new Top-level Domains

ICANN Exec On The new Top-level Domains

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Name and Numbers, or ICANN, coordinates the domain name system globally. These tasks invo... 4 Comments | Read More »

Shopping Cart Functionality Can Increase Sales

Shopping Cart Functionality Can Increase Sales

The tenet of customer service in the online shopping process is simple: the more you engage potential customers, and provide li... 10 Comments | Read More »

Local Search Pays Off, Naturally

Local Search Pays Off, Naturally

When your customers are right around the corner, you don’t need your pay-per-click ads seen half-way around the world. For exam... 5 Comments | Read More »

Conversion Report Card: Musicforte.com

Conversion Report Card: Musicforte.com

Musicforte.com offers songbooks, sheet music and music reference materials to artists and music fans. It relies heavily on sear... 1 Comment | Read More »

Third-Party Integrations Make Shopping Carts Easier To Use

Third-Party Integrations Make Shopping Carts Easier To Use

By day Sean Dupuis is a courier for FedEx. By night, he sends out packages of his own: boxes of boots and moccasins and sheepsk... 3 Comments | Read More »

Niche Marketplace Sites Are Worth Considering

Niche Marketplace Sites Are Worth Considering

Ecommerce merchants looking for additional sales channels might want to consider niche auction and marketplace sites. There ar... 0 Comments | Read More »

Shopping Carts And Search Engines

Shopping Carts And Search Engines

When searching for “educational toys” on Google, at No. 5 on the list you’ll find BrainwavesToys.com—up from No. 78 a year ago.... 5 Comments | Read More »

Magento Shopping Cart And 20,000 Friends

Magento Shopping Cart And 20,000 Friends

Roy Rubin held the cyber equivalent of a barn raising and had several thousand of his closest friends over for the event. Of co... 18 Comments | Read More »

SEO Report Card: Music123.com

SEO Report Card: Music123.com

I’m a musical gear-aholic. My apartment is littered with instruments leaning against walls, stashed in corners, and propped up ... 2 Comments | Read More »

Paid Search With Online Yellow Pages

Paid Search With Online Yellow Pages

You are probably familiar with Google AdWords, Yahoo! Search Marketing, and MSN AdCenter, the three largest paid search adverti... 4 Comments | Read More »

Bloglist: Steve Delgado With Arial Software

Bloglist: Steve Delgado With Arial Software

Name: Steve Delgado, Marketing Director Company: Arial Software In Bloglist, we ask ecommerce professionals to identify the... 0 Comments | Read More »

Keep It Simple And Straightforward

Keep It Simple And Straightforward

During a recent online shopping experience, I was thrilled to find the particular store offered free shipping on orders of $25 ... 4 Comments | Read More »

When To Ignore A 50% Conversion Rate

When To Ignore A 50% Conversion Rate

Now that your analytics tool is tracking your conversions, you can measure the conversion rate of search engine keywords, refer... 3 Comments | Read More »

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