Javien Digital Payment Solutions today unveiled the Javien New Media Payment Gateway, a hosted transaction-payment gateway tailored specifically to the needs of companies that sell digital assets such as music, movies, games and software, whether sold online or by mobile phones.…
This week in e-commerce news, a startup provides an interactive co-browsing application that e-tailers can offer on their sites for customer social networking, a “green” search engine for eco-friendly products gears up to launch, PayLoadz upgrades with unlimited file storage and…
Results of the e-tailing group’s 6th Annual Merchant Survey (1Q ’07) indicated that 75 percent of the surveyed merchants may be losing sales by not communicating with shoppers who have abandoned their shopping carts. The survey, conducted by the e-tailing…
It’s the 10th day of the 10th month, so it’s only appropriate that today we outline 10 tactics aimed at helping you increase holiday sales by 10 percent in 10 weeks. The report, issued by MarketLive and the e-tailing group,…
E-mail marketing provider Constant Contact today unveiled ListenUp Survey, an online customer feedback program for small businesses that’s designed to be easy to use, comprehensive in scope, and perhaps best of all, affordable. Steve Oriola, Constant Contact vice president and…
By now everyone knows that blogs are being used by many e-tailers as a way to capitalize on word-of-mouth marketing by including customers in the shopping experience. One such example would be providing details about product development and showcasing insider…
The benefits of owning your own home-based business are obvious: no commute, no cubicle, no gossip, no dress code, no boss. And, if your business is service-based, there’s also no overhead and inventory to manage. So it’s no wonder that…
Though most of us lament the onslaught of holiday commercials and merchandising before Thanksgiving, for Web shop owners, it’s never too early to prepare for the fourth-quarter rush. If you tune-up your site now, you can focus on filling orders…
Google and Intuit, makers of the small business accounting software QuickBooks, announced a partnership that will integrate Google’s listing and marketing tools into the 2007 version of the bookkeeping suite due out this fall. “Google understands the Web better than…