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Change is inevitable, especially in the world of e-commerce. And one common change e-commerce merchants know is changing domains. Some changes are good but this is one change that can hurt an online business’ search engine optimization efforts, whether knowingly or unknowingly. A sudden domain change can affect your search engine rankings because major search…
Tripwire Magazine, a weblog catered to the web designers and developers, has recently named the top 15 open source platforms for ecommerce website designers, useful for both professional internet marketers and individuals that desire to start their own online store. Open source platforms allow users to modify, change, and improve the software. Here are the…
When Facebook was “cool” Remember when Facebook was “cool”? It was only a few years ago when Facebook was a start-up with a clean interface, exclusively focused on college students. For a short time, Facebook stood its ground, refusing to become another tool for “the man” (a.k.a. big business) to use, a path that infested…
The year 2011 brings with it many lessons from the past year, as well as new trends and technologies to learn and watch out for. Social media marketing has taken center stage and has proven itself indispensible for ecommerce merchants. However, ecommerce merchants should not neglect their search engine optimization needs. In the world of…
A few posts back, we highlighted CodeBroker’s coupon loyalty solutions technology. Codebroker’s technology enables retailers to send coupon barcodes via text to customer smartphones. The barcodes that appear on smartphone screens then may be redeemed by using special optical barcode scanner at a physical retailer site. It’s a nifty and innovative concept that is sure…
New customers are great, returning customers can be even better—there’s no other way to state this age-old adage without losing it meaning. Now we’ll apply this age-old adage to leverage your social media marketing efforts of the 21st century to keep customers coming back. Incentive. It’s not enough to simply ask your customers to be…
In their never-ending quest for world domination, Google has acquired fflick, a Twitter analytics tool developed to track user tweets about movies. Fflick tracks tweets and organizes them based on most recent, most positive, negative, what your friends say, etc. Unlike Groupon, which was reluctant to accept the Empire’s $5.3 billion deal, fflick’s small start-up team…
If you’re following over 2,000 people on Twitter and tried adding 2,000 plus 1, you might have been blocked by Twitter and received a popup message reading something along the lines of: “Could not follow user: You are unable to follow more people at this time.” Upon further inspection, an explanation on why you got…
The internet is the hub for every great shopping deal out there. There once was a time when customers had to wait the week, skim through Sunday ads for the best deals, and cut coupons. You could walk down to your neighborhood store and would most often find what you were looking for easily without…
On August 30, 2010, Google started rolling out Priority Inbox for Gmail. Priority Inbox, in its simplest form, is an algorithm that sifts through massive amounts of email and sends emails that users are likely to read and respond to to their Priority Inbox. Priority Inbox is able to do this because its algorithm analyzes…
