Ecommerce Blog Posts
Direct Email Failure
It sounds so serious right? There’s nothing as beautiful as a well designed ad via email to pull in great sales for the week. I’ve m... 0 Comments | Read More »
Regional search engine ranking
It's a relatively warm Spring day here. A very nice change for Michigan. It snowed yesterday. So I'll take cloudy and luke warm any ... 0 Comments | Read More »
Buggy Shopping Cart & Growing Pains
I've fallen off of the face of the earth because it's coming up on Mother's Day, our biggest holiday next to Christmas. We have bugg... 0 Comments | Read More »
Miva 5 & Miva Mailer
I’m currently using Miva 4.22. I have been hesitating on an upgrade to Miva 5 because I saw an incompatibility report with OPEN UI, ... 0 Comments | Read More »
Clean Code
Well, it’s spring time (supposedly). I can’t express how happy I am going to be when it is warm here in Steamboat Springs, Colorado.... 0 Comments | Read More »
The power of good coding and Google
Maybe I've mentioned this before in an earlier blog entry, but I just am so amazed! Google is picking up on so much more than it eve... 0 Comments | Read More »
Introduction
Here goes.... My sister-in-law and I have a brick and mortar store that we opened August 31st 2004. Since before we opened the door... 0 Comments | Read More »
Shorter Product Addresses?
I’m curious how some shopping carts have addresses that are so short, thereby making the search engines more likely to crawl them. F... 0 Comments | Read More »
Community Forums
I wanted to post a quick reminder about our community forums. Of course, since our new website launched last month, our forum starte... 0 Comments | Read More »
Welcome Groovy Grandma!
We are proud parents of our own new little “division”. We, Redhatsbyyou.com, are initiating a second business, albeit slowly, called... 0 Comments | Read More »
Windows Live Search
Well, today Microsoft finally released the beta version of their new search engine, being tested for the time being at Windows Live ... 0 Comments | Read More »
Credit Card Fraud
Well, I suppose it was inevitable. After two years in business we have just experienced our first attempt at major credit card fraud... 0 Comments | Read More »
Email Errors
I am having a few issues with my direct email campaign. I don't know if it's the customers issue or ours. I've had about 5-10 compla... 0 Comments | Read More »
My server is down!
I guess this happens to the best of us, however, with us, maybe a bit too often. My server dropped off for over an hour today. The p... 0 Comments | Read More »
Google Analytics and SSL Connections
This was an interesting one that we ran across today. We had received a few communications from people saying that our subscription... 0 Comments | Read More »
PHP Session ID's
I'm sure this one has been beat to death somewhere, but I wanted to touch on it here since it came up with us recently. First of all... 0 Comments | Read More »
Direct EMail Marketing vs. SPAMMING
I'm curious if anyone else out there is dealing with a similiar issue? Each week we market via email to a large list of online subsc... 0 Comments | Read More »
SSL Certificates
Well, we are finally completely switched over. In order to develop our new site, we picked up the domain name practicalecommerce.net... 1 Comments | Read More »
Header Information, SiteMaps & Reciprocal Linking
I also wanted to note that I've redone all metatags and header information to include Robot direction, Keywords (exclusive to each p... 0 Comments | Read More »
osCommerce Release
I just had a conversation with Christian Lescuyer of the osCommerce project. I thought I would post a quick update to the interview ... 0 Comments | Read More »