Infographic: The Unstoppable Ecommerce Wave

Infographic: Site Testing leads to Conversion Happiness

Posted on January 4, 2012 by Douglas Karr

Aside from testing for search, speed and social, there are critical components of a test site that your company should be working on to analyze how visitors are converted into customers. Elements in and on pages like call-to-action buttons, layouts, navigation, copy, promotions, offers, checkout process, product selection process and even security should be constantly tested to find issues and improve the performance of your landing page or ecommerce page. Companies that are happy with their conversion rates do, on … Continue reading →

Infographic: Amazon Versus the World!

Posted on December 21, 2011 by Andrew Davis

Amazon now stands as one of the most powerful retail sources in the world. With millions of die-hard customers and fans, it has challenged not only other retailers on and offline, but entire online marketing channels. Amazon’s newest product, the Kindle Fire, took some pretty harsh criticism last week. Regardless, sales still appear to be monstrous, with more than 1 million Kindle (including Kindle Fire) units being sold per week for the third week in a row. As a source … Continue reading →

OpenCart: Open Source Ecommerce

Posted on December 14, 2011 by Douglas Karr

If you’re looking for an international ecommerce solution and you’re a do-it-yourselfer, you shouldn’t have to look further than OpenCart. OpenCart is an open source ecommerce platform that’s built on a MVC (Model View Controller) framework, so it’s scalable as well. The platform is full-featured as well: Unlimited Categories, Unlimited Products, Unlimited Manufacturers, Templatable, Multi-Language, Multi-Currency, Product Reviews, Product Ratings, Downloadable Products, Automatic Image Resizing, Multiple Tax Rates, Related Products, Unlimited, Information Pages, Shipping Weight Calculation, Discount Coupon System, Search … Continue reading →

Infographic: Local Shopping Tips for the Holiday Season

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Douglas Karr

We posted about Milo, an acquisition of eBay. Milo’s goal is to have every product on every shelf in every story available on the web. And they’re already pushing retail outlets this holiday season! There are some great tips here and opportunities for retail outlets to supplement their instore sales by driving traffic to their store from online. Sounds like it’s time to warm up the Jingle Bells and the Gingerbread cookies, and begin driving some sales! Infographic via Milo.

Infographic: Holiday Ecommerce: Mobile, Tablet and Desktop

Posted on December 6, 2011 by Adam Small

Mobile Tablet and Desktop Conversion Rates

This is a very interesting look at expenditures and conversions this holiday season from the the folks at Monetate. Althought it provides us with clear evidence of an increase in Mobile and Tablet usage for purchases from Black Friday and Cyber Monday, it provides a bit more insight into the different behaviors of people utilizing tablets, mobile and desktops. In my opinion, it appears that folks with tablets are already pretty comfortable shopping from them but mobile users may be … Continue reading →

Infographic: The 7 Deadly Mistakes that Make Sites Slow

Posted on December 2, 2011 by Douglas Karr

Slow websites influence bounce rates, conversion rates, and even your search engine rankings. That said, I’m surprised by the number of sites that are still gruelingly slow. Adam showed me a site today hosted on GoDaddy that was taking in excess of 10 seconds to load. That poor person thinks they’re saving a couple bucks on hosting… instead they’re losing tons of money because prospective clients are bailing on them. We’ve grown our readership quite a bit here, and I … Continue reading →