E-Commerce
E-Commerce
Order Management Software Makes E-Commerce Easier
Explains how order management software is important for serious e-commerce businesses. Provides an overview of typical order management features. Then gives annotated links to the major vendors who serve small to medium businesses: StoneEdge, M.O.M., MailWare, OrderMotion, NetSuite, ShipWorks, TrueShip, AdvancePro, and Fishbowl Inventory.
Mar 18, 2008, 06:30
E-Commerce
SEO as a Key to E-Commerce Success, AnOccasionalChocolate.com (video 8:54)
 Cheryl Sandberg of AnOccasionalChocolate.com, a candy making supplies e-commerce site, discusses the keys to her store's online success. Lessons relate to careful and rigorous search engine optimization (SEO), selecting an underfilled niche, and a mix of shipping from inventory and drop-shippers.
Nov 13, 2007, 11:47
E-Commerce
E-Commerce Cross-Selling and Up-Selling
 Dr. Wilson explains how cross-selling techniques can increase both the rate of sales completion and the order total in retail and B2B stores that offer a number of products. Cross-selling offers similar products or add-ons to a sale. Up-selling offers higher quality and higher priced products as an alternative. The article explains how to set this up in a shopping cart and where to place cross-sell options.
Nov 13, 2007, 08:02
E-Commerce
How to Sell Downloadable Products Online
Offers a poor man's approach to digital sales of downloadable products using a password-protected directory for downloads. Also recommends, PayLoadz, 1ShoppingCart, ClickBank, and ShopSite Pro as professional systems. Mentions PayPal micropayments which makes sales of music and low cost documents cost-effective.
Mar 15, 2007, 10:09
E-Commerce Doctor Ebiz® Q&A
Why the Fishing Lure Won't Reel in Much Online Profit
A fishing lure inventor wants to sell his invention online. But the $1.99 price guarantees that he won't be able to make much money with online sales. A hypothetical analysis spells out potential costs.
Jan 16, 2007, 20:29
E-Commerce Premium Content
Review: osCommerce Shopping Cart Software (ver 2.2 milestone 2)
osCommerce is one of the more popular small business shopping carts. It is built with PHP on a MySQL database, and since it is Open Source, you can modify the code any way you wish to create a unique store configuration. However, it has some drawbacks. This review looks at some of the pros and cons to osCommerce.
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Jan 3, 2007, 17:42
E-Commerce
Book Mention: How to Sell Anything on Yahoo!
A brief review of how to Sell Anything on Yahoo! and Make a Fortune.
Build and Run a Successful Online Business with Yahoo! by Skip McGrath and Dennis L. Prince. Helpful, but weak on marketing.
Nov 21, 2006, 18:36
E-Commerce
Linear vs. Menu-Driven Online Sales Flow
Online sales generally follow two distinct approaches: (1) linear sales flow based on on a direct marketing approach, ideal for a few individual products; and (2) menu-driven sales flow based on a retail sales approach, ideal for many products in an online store. This article clarifies the differences, notes areas for improvement, and offers resources to learn more.
Nov 7, 2006, 22:10
E-Commerce
E-Merchants Should Submit Products for Froogle Using Google Base
Submitting online products to Google's Froogle can improve Google search rankings and bring traffic from Froogle searches, too. However, the product submission process has changed. Now submissions must be made using the Google Base system. The article explains the process, offers tips, and points out some of the traps you may encounter doing bulk submission.
Sep 26, 2006, 20:12
E-Commerce -- Doctor Ebiz Q&A
Collecting Sales Tax for Out-of-State Sales
While businesses are currently not required to collect sales taxes on out-of-state sales so long as they don't have sites in other states (Quill Corp. v. North Dakota, 1992), Streamlined Sales Tax (SST) legislation in cooperating states will eventually lead to Congress requiring larger businesses to collect out-of-state taxes using programs such as Taxware or Alalara AvaTax.
Sep 20, 2006, 14:43
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