Blog Category: eCommerce

If you use eCommerceTemplates and want to export the mailing list into Constant Contact, you can follow these steps. Make sure you have explicit permission from folks before you send them bulk emails!

1. Export from ECT store (Mailing List, Action: Dump Entire Mailing List)
2. Convert CSV file to XLSX (because CC needs this)
(Option: Break fullname (first last) into two columns or whether to leave it as one value)
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/split-text-into-different-cells-HA102809804.aspx
3. Sign in to CC, Contact, Pick List, Add Contact, From File
4. Select which fields to import and map them to CC fields
5. Import and done.

Many small business owners want to take advantage of eCommerce and  sell items online or collect money for services provided. What are their options? This article reviews the difference between three methods: Online Stores, PayPal Buy Now Buttons and PayPal Add to Cart Buttons.

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Sometimes it becomes necessary to move your website from one hosting company to another. As a small business website owner you may wonder what is involved in this process so that you can judge the benefits versus the cost of moving to a new website hosting company. I recently moved several dozen of my clients, including my own website, from one hosting company to another, in search of better customer service, and wanted to give others who may be contemplating such a move an idea of what’s involved.

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If you have an online store, there are times when for some reason, a transaction for a customer is declined. This article tries to explain the process, and why many banks will hold the funds, making them unavailable to a client, even when a transaction is denied.

Much of this information is from Authorize.net and from a very helpful online store merchant ArtisticGiftBaskets.com who have done a great job explaining what happens and have given me permission to repost it here.

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Many of my readers may be familiar with a very popular article I wrote in May of 2008 about the then new Washington State Destination Based Sales Tax. Today I received news from one of my readers that alerted me to a new development: SB5113.

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I frequently set up GeoTrust SSLs on my client’s ecommerce websites who are hosted with DreamHost. For those of you who wanted to give this a try yourselves, here are the steps I follow to set up a GeoTrust SSL at DreamHost.

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Can you trust online stores you are doing business with? Lately I’ve been on a mission to get my business certified as a green web design company. As part of that effort, I have been doing research online into how exactly to accomplish this. I wound up on one online store that looked legitimate and I started to purchase carbon offsets. I quickly lost trust in the online store and wanted to share with you the red flags I found.

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As we approach the holiday season, I thought it would be appropriate to give some tips on how to make sure you’re getting the most out of your online store in terms of search engine optimization, including some examples.

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This is topic covers one of the things that annoys me the most when I’m shopping online. I recently had a particularly frustrating purchasing experience with Ticketmaster that I wanted to share. This example will help explain why I’m so against forcing online shoppers to create a login account before they can purchase something from your online store.

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Static vs Dynamic website pages explained: I’ve found myself explaining this to my clients, with varying degrees of success, so I thought a really well-written blog article might help. This article will attempt to explain the difference between static web pages and dynamic web pages, and why your particular website might have one or the other or even both.

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