eCommerce Tip: Allow Your Customers to Comparison Shop

eCommerce Tip: Allow Your Customers to Comparison Shop

If you've been selling online at all for some time you know how much more fun it is to sell a bunch of items rather than just one. Who out there hasn't jumped for joy upon seeing you just moved 10 items rather than just one? Wouldn't it be nice if this happened all the time? Even if you've been[...]

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An eCommerce Seller’s Tax Time Checklist

An eCommerce Seller’s Tax Time Checklist

We're almost through the looking glass! That's right, tax time is almost all done and done. But have you finished up everything you were supposed to? Did you get every piece of paperwork filled out and signed? Perhaps you're one of the few (who are we kidding, the many) who waits to the very last second to file your taxes.[...]

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Should You Be Charging Sales Tax?

Should You Be Charging Sales Tax?

Taxes are a funny thing. Not your taxes that are soon due to the IRS, but things like sales tax. Sellers have struggled with these numbers for years, as they hardly seem consistent and irritate their customers. Some states even have different sales tax depending on which area of the state you're in. If you sell online, sales tax used[...]

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5 Ideas for Your Email Marketing Messages

5 Ideas for Your Email Marketing Messages

So you’ve gotten your email list going. Now what to do? Email your customers and fans, of course! But eventually you may run out of things to say, especially if you’ve been at it a while. But if you plan ahead you’ll no doubt have an endless supply of interesting things to send to your fans. Sometimes, though, it’s tough[...]

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How and Why to Increase the Credibility of Your eCommerce Store

How and Why to Increase the Credibility of Your eCommerce Store

I don't know if you've heard, but there are some... unscrupulous people on the Internet. For every honest, hardworking entrepreneur slaving away at their computer, there are a hundred scammers trying to rip customers off the best they can. Therefore, it's very difficult sometimes to trust stores you go to on the 'net, especially if they aren't affiliated with a[...]

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Taming the PCI Compliance Monster

Taming the PCI Compliance Monster

The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) requires that if you accept, transmit or store credit cardholder data you must meet the requirements contained within the standard. The problem is that many people don’t know what that means. If you deal with credit cards and are required to meet the PCI DSS, my advice is to find a[...]

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