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Quick Query: Pilot Identifies Niche With PDF Aviation Maps

Quick Query: Pilot Identifies Niche With PDF Aviation Maps

In the United States there will be 590,349 pilots collectively flying some 28 million hours in 228,000 different aircraft this year ... 0 Comments | Read More »

Amazon Payment Service Allows for Advanced Options

Amazon Payment Service Allows for Advanced Options

Amazon.com has been offering a beta version of its Flexible Payment Service (FPS) to merchants for almost a year now. With many deve... 0 Comments | Read More »

Browser Review: Internet Explorer

Browser Review: Internet Explorer

When Google introduced its Chrome web browser in September, it fired the first shot in a new browser war, challenging Microsoft’s su... 0 Comments | Read More »

Interview: Pay-per-click Expert On 2nd Tier Ad Sites

Interview: Pay-per-click Expert On 2nd Tier Ad Sites

Recently I sat down with Jeremy Mayes, the author of PPCDiscussions.com. In addition to writing the PPCDiscussions.com blog, Mayes h... 0 Comments | Read More »

Yugster.com Shares its Fulfillment Strategy

Yugster.com Shares its Fulfillment Strategy

The old-school approach to order fulfillment doesn’t fly for many Internet retailers. Warehousing, packing, shipping, and return-ord... 0 Comments | Read More »

Transform High-Performing Referrers into Affiliates

Transform High-Performing Referrers into Affiliates

Try using web analytics data to create an affiliate network by directly contacting the sites that are referring traffic to your site... 0 Comments | Read More »

Cart of the Week: Interspire “Obsesses Over Quality”

Cart of the Week: Interspire “Obsesses Over Quality”

Practical eCommerce counts over 300 different shopping cart platforms. This includes licensed carts, hosted carts, and open-source c... 0 Comments | Read More »

Bloglist: Market Motive CEO Michael Stebbins

Bloglist: Market Motive CEO Michael Stebbins

In Bloglist, we ask ecommerce professionals to share some of their favorite blogs and tell us why they read them. For this bloglist,... 0 Comments | Read More »

Maxthon: China’s Ad Smashing, Proxy Switching, Web Browser

Maxthon: China’s Ad Smashing, Proxy Switching, Web Browser

The Maxthon web browser brings several great features to the same platform as Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) and lets users pret... 0 Comments | Read More »

Put Your Price in Your PPC Ad

Put Your Price in Your PPC Ad

When your goal is to sell, consider including your item's price right in the ad. 0 Comments | Read More »

Constant Contact CEO Gail Goodman: Marketing in a Down Economy

Constant Contact CEO Gail Goodman: Marketing in a Down Economy

Gail Goodman is CEO of Constant Contact, a leading self-service email marketing company with over 220,000 customers worldwide. She j... 0 Comments | Read More »

Automated Chat Captures Prospects After They Leave A Site

Automated Chat Captures Prospects After They Leave A Site

UpSellit’s SMARTagent promises to automatically bring shoppers back to your site and close potential sales. It’s part user-engaged a... 0 Comments | Read More »

Effective Return Policies Save Money and Earn Business

Effective Return Policies Save Money and Earn Business

If there is one thing that every online retailer hates and fears, it’s returns. Many great stores fight to keep return rates below 2... 0 Comments | Read More »

Google Changes How it Determines Ad Quality

Google Changes How it Determines Ad Quality

Google has replaces its static, per-keyword quality score with a system that judges an ad's quality each time it matches a search qu... 0 Comments | Read More »

Opera 9.6 Browser: Links Email, Desktop, and Mobile

Opera 9.6 Browser: Links Email, Desktop, and Mobile

f you want evidence that there is a hot browser war underway, you need look no further than the new Opera 9.6 web browser that some ... 0 Comments | Read More »

Selling Products Online: What Legal Jurisdiction Applies?

Selling Products Online: What Legal Jurisdiction Applies?

Most ecommerce merchants want consumers from all over, whether that means all 50 U.S. states, Canada, Mexico, Europe, or the world. ... 0 Comments | Read More »

Accessibility: Making Video and Audio Usable For The Deaf

Accessibility: Making Video and Audio Usable For The Deaf

Using video and audio in a website increases the probability of an accessibility problem. Where text can be readily translated into ... 0 Comments | Read More »

Find and Measure Links Better with Linkscape

Find and Measure Links Better with Linkscape

One of the most important attributes of search engine optimization (SEO) is link building, which is garnering quality inbound links ... 0 Comments | Read More »

Great Ad and Web Copy Gives Your Marketing A Lift

Great Ad and Web Copy Gives Your Marketing A Lift

Consider trying a few versions of your pay per click ad, and focus your attention on those ads that get the best click-through rates... 0 Comments | Read More »

Use Forecasting Tools For Flawless Keyword Buying

Use Forecasting Tools For Flawless Keyword Buying

Google, Yahoo!, MSN, and other leading search engines all offer keyword research forecasting tools that can help you pick just the r... 0 Comments | Read More »

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