Putting Facebook and Ecommerce together makes perfect sense. With so many people already on Facebook sharing status updates, photos and visiting brand / fan pages why not sell products to them? In the graph below you will see the U.S. consumption of minutes on Facebook growing at 69% vs. a decline of 9% for the rest of the web (data [...]

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I prepared a list of the top 52 holiday tips for e-commerce store owners and broke them up into sections; Web Design, Customer Service / Operations, Gift Services, Promotions / Social Media, Advertising / Search and Opportunities / Partnerships. The current economic forces will test online retailers in many ways and the sooner you plan for the holidays the better [...]

The day began with an interesting keynote from Chris Brogan & Julien Smith. As co-authors of the book Trust Agents they described the concept briefly and sparked some ideas from the discussion. The takeaway is to discover who the Trust Agent is in your space and if one doesn’t exist become that influential voice. Got It? Had a chance to [...]

The first day of Affiliate Summit in New York began with an exciting networking session “meet market” from 12 to 6pm with various internet marketers, agencies and merchants. I met with many interesting people (3,000 attendees) and was great to see friends from the Google Affiliate Summit just over a week ago in California (time flies). During the opening I [...]

I wanted to summarize some of the key strategies an e-commerce merchant can do to survive in today’s economy . The changes in consumer and business online spending, new learning technologies and the rise of social media all means you have to embrace the changes or consider the alternative. I recently attended Internet Retailer 2009 in Boston and recommend the [...]

I was reading the highlights from the Social Media Marketing 2009 study by Marketingsherpa and as an active internet marketer I make a point to learn every single day. Social Media is an ever changing animal and just when you think you caught up you didn’t. It is with that thought that I recommend to every company online or personal [...]

I am pleased to say that we have some exceptional Yahoo Store e-commerce clients on the top 100 favorite online stores by the thefind.com. TheFind discovers the top 100 retailers among 16 main shopping categories and chooses from over 500,000 online stores. From the 500,000 sites they choose 1600 stores. We wanted to say congratulations to: – ShopJinny.com – Women’s [...]

I wanted to dig deeper into the impressive traffic patterns of Barack Obama and his ride to Internet stardom. I reviewed various Internet statistics on unique visitors, average stay, attention, velocity, search, online advertising and how this all worked in his favor. Overall, I am really impressed with the Internet Marketing strategy of the Presidential Election Campaign as it involves [...]