Magento, Multi Store and SEO

If you find it hard to split your product range into 6 top level categories, without creating artificial, non obvious categories, then imagine the confusion your visitors will have trying to work out where to find what they want. Further you need to avoid deep nested categories …

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E-Commerce News: Customer Loyalty: CRM Conference to Showcase the Retail Experience

CRMC (Customer Relationship Management Conference) is being held May 29 to 31 at the Chicago Hyatt Regency. This annual event offers a unique agenda for retailers, Devon Wylie, CEO of CRMC told CRM Buyer. "It's specifically focused on case studies from topnotch multinational re …

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33 Must Read Books for Entrepreneurs — Ecommerce Blog by Shopify

Reading good books is like talking with some of the greatest thinkers of our time, and centuries past. Reading is particularly important for entrepreneurs. Many authors have spent a lifetime gaining a wealth of knowledge, and learning the lessons in their books the hard way so …

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Mobile is more secure

Mobile is more secure By Consult Hyperion posted 11/05/2012 at 10:19. Write a comment [Dave Birch] The mobile wallet is much in the news at the moment and, since I've been to three different meetings about mobile wallets in the last three days, much in my mind as well. I don' …

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Marketers Use Growing Number of Tools to Spur Website Engagement - eMarketer

Marketers Use Growing Number of Tools to Spur Website Engagement MAY 11, 2012 Creation of original content demonstrates value of owned media Marketers seem to have an ever-growing number of ways to drive customer engagement on brand websites. In a March 2012 online survey of  …

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EM ecommerce: without the plastic | News and views on emerging markets from the Financial Times – FT.com

What’s holding back ecommerce in EMs? Two answers normally crop up: a lack of reliable internet connections and a lack of credit and debit cards. Well, perhaps not the second one so much. According to payment processing business Worldpay, alternative payments – ie  …

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When Facebook 'likes' can get you fired :: BtoB Magazine

Social media deployment within companies may be expanding quickly, but it's taking the law some time to catch up. Over the last few weeks, two cases have highlighted the complexity of Facebook “likes” and sent contradictory, somewhat unsettling messages to corporate …

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Why Facebook thinks your comment is 'irrelevant or inappropriate' 

Great article on what your users may see as growing pains when using Facebook for marketing.

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Teddle Puts Service Scheduling and Recommendations All in One Place

Online skill and task marketplaces are springing up like weeds in the tech startup community, but U.K.-based startup Teddle sees an opportunity to provide something different, by not only connecting people with service providers when they need them, but by fostering a relations …

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Four New Social Media Sites You Shouldn't Ignore - eCommerce and Entrepreneurship Blog

Social media provides a platform for businesses to connect to customers and clients. Most marketers exclusively use the big social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn) for their social media marketing strategies. This detrimental strategy ignores lesser-known but ri …

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Key dates and tips to target the online Mother's Day shopper in 2012

Shop.org’s parent, NRF, announced last week that consumers are expected to spend a full $18.6 billion to celebrate the mothers in their lives on May 13. The survey of 8,724 consumers conducted this month by BIGinsight showed also that online shoppers will contribute a fai …

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Senate bill to fix ailing Postal Service passes - Apr. 25, 2012

WASHINGTON (CNNMoney) -- The Senate on Wednesday passed a plan to save the struggling U.S. Postal Service, an effort that could save thousands of jobs and 100 mail processing plants now slated to be closed or consolidated next month. In an unusual showing of bipartisanship, th …

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Bottom Line - New rules set on background checks for job seekers

New rules set on background checks for job seekers

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msnbc.com Entertainment - Military cancels Ted Nugent show citing anti-Obama comments

Military cancels Ted Nugent show citing anti-Obama comments

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Tupac Shakur's mom reportedly 'thrilled' with hologram of dead son

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Ted Nugent says he'll be 'dead or in jail' if Obama wins again

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» Project Glass: View of the Future, or Fashion Faux Pas?

There's been lots of talk over the past 24 hours about Google's new "Project Glass", and yes it's pretty cool. For those unfamiliar, this is Google's project to develop eyewear that overlays media and search information (think directions or local venue discovery).  …

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Magento - Blog - New Magento Site Gives Cookie Company Lots of Reasons to Smile - eCommerce Software for Growth

It’s often been said that the secret of success is knowing when to run with a good idea. The Eat’n Park Hospitality Group certainly feels this way. When the organization noticed how many of its restaurant customers were raving about the “smiley face” coo …

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Creating New Business Models with Transactional APIs | Get Elastic Ecommerce Blog

In our latest webinar A Look Inside Tomorrow’s Digital Commerce Platform, Forrester analyst Peter Sheldon shared several exciting examples of how digital sellers are embracing the new explosion of touchpoints (Internet-enabled devices) to reach and engage connected consum …

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Enterprise Architecture and Transformation at the Crossroads

For some, if you want enterprise transformation, you really need the organizing benefits of enterprise architecture (EA) to succeed. For others, the elevation of enterprise architecture as an essential ingredient to enterprise transformation improperly conflates the role of en …

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Forget "Freemium", sell legacy and brand online

Rather than the freemium approach, I offer a different way to appeal to companies to buy social wares. Social is giving companies the ability to change who and what they are. It enables you to make a great business by leapfrogging over old ideas, processes and procedures.

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Retail across borders: 6 considerations for international expansion | Shop.org Blog

Operations and organizational structure.

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Customer Retention Best Practices for eCommerce

The Importance of the Return Shopper The first step in determining customer retention strategies is to discover the value of a return customer vs a new customer. In Leading on the Edge of Chaos, Emmett C. Murphy and Mark A.

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