WebLinc would like to congratulate our clients Free People and LightsOnline.com on their inclusion in Internet Retailer’s 2011 Hot 100 list. This year’s list is a celebration of the best retail web sites featuring 100 outstanding retailers in eleven categories. Free People currently has 40 stores and is carried in more than 1,000 boutiques and department stores [...]

Sitting around the TV with my family on Thanksgiving this year, I noticed a trend: While the football games buzzed from the flat screen, instead of asking to change the channel or playing cards or playing with the dogs, my sisters sat on the couch with their laptops and shopped. One was looking for advance [...]

Just in time for the holidays, Free People has launched Wee People, clothes for the best-dressed little girls. According to the company, “The collection captures the spirit of the Free People girl in her earliest stages, when fairy tales are real and imagination knows no boundaries. Whimsical girls’ party dresses to release her inner princess, [...]

We’re happy to announce that WebLinc ranks number one in the list of Website Design and Development Agencies in the most recent issue of the Philadelphia Business Journal. The list, which was compiled as part of the Business Journal’s annual Book of Lists, contains listings of the hottest area companies in their fields. The same [...]

Carved into the oak entryway of the Temple, the Rochester-based factory where Hickey Freeman has been tailoring suits since the early part of the 20th century, is the phrase “Keep the Quality Up.” It serves as a daily reminder of the exceptionally high-quality products the tailors create. Today, Hickey Freeman continues that legacy of quality [...]

Forrester Research, an independent research company that provides advice to global leaders in business and technology, yesterday released its latest report, Market Overview: SMB eCommerce Solutions: A Guide To Selecting Your eCommerce Solution Across North America and EMEA. WebLinc is proud to be included in this report, which was written by Brian Walker, one of the [...]

When Progressive Lighting re-launched its eCommerce store, LightsOnline.com, with WebLinc Direct, remarkable signs of success started showing after just the first month: • Online sales doubled • Conversion rates increased nearly twofold • Site traffic increased dramatically Progressive Lighting chose WebLinc because they needed an eCommerce solution that offered the showcase their products require. What [...]

Brooklyn Industries’ recent relaunch on WebLinc Direct is the cover story in this month’s All About ROI Magazine. In the article, Lexy Funk, Brooklyn Industries’ co-founder and CEO, explains how scalability and flexibility impacted her decision to partner with WebLinc: “We looked at the next three years and said, ‘There’s no way it’s going to be [...]

Coming in at #105 on the Internet Retailer Top 500, Deep Discount was already a well-known name in eCommerce. With a new site built on WebLinc Direct, an expanded product offering and the everyday promise of free shipping, it’s poised to become an even bigger player. The flexibility of the new site allows Deep Discount to [...]

WebLinc just launched the brand new mobile commerce site for Free People, a division of Urban Outfitters Inc. The new site fully replicates the experience customers have come to expect from Free People, and now with the aid of their smartphones, shoppers can access the site from just about anywhere. A few things make this site and WebLinc’s [...]