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(Mostly) Free Website Monitoring Tools

Recently came across two articles about free website monitoring tools, Top 10 Free Website Uptime Monitoring Services, from Design Live, and 12 Excellent Free Tools for Monitoring Your Sites Uptime, from... 
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The $300 Million Dollar Button

“It’s hard to imagine a form that could be simpler: two fields, two buttons, and one link. Yet, it turns out this form was preventing customers from purchasing products from a major e-commerce... 
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How to Pick an Online ECommerce Shopping Cart: 6 Carts Reviewed

A more recent version of this article has been posted at SitePoint, which also has links to related articles that might be of interest. The SitePoint article also has a review of Google Checkout. Selling... 
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digiShop to Offer Hosted Cart called CoreCommerce

Got an email this morning that digiShop, one of the better sub-$1000 shopping carts, plans to offer a hosted version called CoreCommerce. The blog is here: http://www.corecommerce.com/blog Their email... 
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Online Payment Direct to Your QuickBooks Software

QuickBooks, probably the leader in software smaller businesses use to manage their books, now offers online payment processing that shows up as a feed you easily pull into QuickBooks. For users of this... 
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Online Holiday Sales Are Expected to Rise Sharply

” eMarketer predicts that this will be the largest online holiday shopping season ever. With the crucial holiday shopping season about to begin, there are ominous economic signs on the horizon. High... 
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Readers Digest: The Long Goodbye

“At Reader’s Digest, it was called, simply, the Unified File System. The first system to unify tens of millions of names and addresses from different businesses into one file—and then, add... 
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Denmark is Best Place to do Business

“Denmark will be the best place in the world to conduct business over the next five years, according to the latest business environment rankings from the Economist Intelligence Unit. Denmark assumes... 
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Website Conversion and Web Analytics Suite of Calculators

“If you want to get a better understanding of what your visitors are doing on your website, increase your online sales, reduce your cost of customer acquisition, increase your customer retention... 
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Local Taxation of Online Sales: Only a Matter of Time?

“The majority of U.S. states are moving to end the tax-free ride for most online shoppers, a development that is facing opposition from some members of the public, businesses and a number of federal... 
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Amazon Knows Who You Are

“Many companies have systems for tracking customer habits, but Amazon has collected info longer and used it more proactively. It now has technology that tracks data on those you buy gifts for, and... 
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Many Delete Cookies, Invalidate Ad Measurements

“Confirming seeming odd data coming from companies relying on cookie tracking, a new Jupiter Research study showed that two out of five users wind up having their cookies deleted at least once a... 
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Searching for the Why of Buy

“There was an Apple iPod, then a black Aeron chair. A coffeepot by Capresso and a washing machine by Dyson. Christian Dior followed by Versace, Oakley, Honda, Evian and Louis Vuitton. Each icon of... 
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The Chargeback Challenge: How to Handle Online Credit Card Chargebacks

“The best tools for avoiding a chargeback are not available for online merchants. Retail-style businesses can perform certain actions that render them virtually bulletproof to chargebacks (they’re... 
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Interview With Bruce Livingstone, CEO, istockphoto.com

Sam Decker has done a really interesting wide-ranging interview with the CEO of istockphoto.com, an unusual stock photography resource in that it is a community of photographers who provide the work. The... 
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Search Engine Optimization and Successful Site Architecture

“Site architecture has been poorly addressed by search engine marketers (SEMs). Many of them have limited knowledge about information architecture and site usability. Some only specialize in search... 
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All About Spam, and Antispam Solutions

“Spam is more than an annoyance. It’s more than unwanted ads for mortgages, porn, and Viagra. In fact, the ads in your inbox are just the tip of the spamberg. Spam carries viruses in the form... 
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Quick osCommerce Shopping Cart Customization Guide

I’m setting up a lightweight ecommerce site for a client and came across this quick start guide from the osCommerce forums. If you don’t know, osCommerce is a good open source shopping cart... 
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58% May Reduce Online Holiday Shopping Due to Security Fears

“Nearly six out of ten consumers (58 percent) are concerned enough about cyber security threats that they may reduce the amount of their online shopping this holiday season, according to a joint... 
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Budgeting for Advertising and Customer Experience

“So… a good chunk of every dollar the company earned went to sending potential customers to have a bad experience. A tiny percentage of those frustrated people would muddle through and become... 
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