Reading this from work or at home on a company computer? Here’s something to keep in mind. (more…)
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Online fraud biting ecommerce merchants
Merchants are continuing to lose a considerable amount of their overall revenue to online fraud according a recent survey. (more…)
Survey – fans and followers buy
A survey of 1,504 online US adults has found social media users are more likely to buy from merchants after they become fans or followers. (more…)
301 redirects and Google PageRank loss
A rumor in the SEO world circulating for many years is that 301 redirects cause a loss of PageRank on Google. Here’s the official word on that from Google Engineer, Matt Cutts… well, sort of. (more…)
Pay on time incentive
Do you have trouble getting paid by some of your clients? You may want to consider an idea in use by Australia’s postal service. (more…)
Images in email marketing campaigns
If you use images as the focal point of your email marketing campaigns and no accompanying non-image based text, here’s how a recipient might be seeing it. (more…)
Ebay going green-er
A few days back, eBay took some steps to further boost its green street-cred; a move that all online businesses should take note of. (more…)
Email click tracking troubles
Many merchants turn on click tracking in their newsletters and email marketing campaigns. It’s a great idea as it can provide valuable information, but it’s also another step where something can go wrong. (more…)
Blocking ad blocker users
Ad blocking software robs content sites of revenue. What if you could block those folks using ad blockers? Would you? Should you? Here’s a site that tried recently. (more…)
Searching Twitter…via Google
I rarely search Twitter from Twitter for anything as the signal to noise ratio is just too low – but there is a better way to search. Who would have guessed it was via Google.. or perhaps it should have been a given. (more…)