May 1st, 2007

Product Photography and Its Importance in eCommerce

By Pete Radocaj

Whether selling products, vacation spots or services it can be very difficult to make your products look appealing to potential customers. Attractive web design and complimentary copy writing will help, but ultimately the image you choose will pique the viewer’s interest, and hopefully, a desire to purchase the product.
When choosing a style of photography […]

April 26th, 2007

Philadelphia Web Design Companies, A Peek Under the Rug

By Jody Ferry

When choosing a web design company for your next redesign or project, there are many factors to consider. One important factor which shouldn’t be overlooked is the web design company’s conformance to W3C recommendations.
We decided to do a follow-up to a 2005 study conducted by our friends over at Happy Cog Philadelphia concerning the HTML […]

April 19th, 2007

Pay Per Click: The Tracks of My Tiers

By Joe Devlin

Let’s talk about Pay Per Click (PPC) for a moment. PPC engines are traditionally broken up into two tiers. The top tier consists of engines with significant market share and penetration. The second tier would contain the rest of the smaller and niche PPC engines. Where the line between the top tier […]

April 18th, 2007

Search Engine Optimization and the Importance of Quality Copy for an eCommerce Site

By Matt Slusser

The creation of pages on your website can no longer just be a simple explanation of your services. Traditional advertising will still help to market online products, but now that search engines are the dominant force in generating online traffic for eCommerce businesses, getting customers to your site is half the sales battle. What every […]

April 17th, 2007

8 Ways to Reduce Your Shopping Cart Abandonment Rates

By Joe Devlin

The worst place for web site abandonment is in your shopping cart. You’ve overcome all the customer objections and gotten products added to their cart only to see the sale get away due to issue within the checkout process. To reduce shopping cart abandonments, here are 8 suggestions:
1. Offer the option to call. If visitors […]

April 16th, 2007

Google Cutts Paid Links

By Joe Devlin

Matt Cutts of Google had an interesting blog post over the past weekend that specifically talks about reporting paid links to Google. (Hat tip, Jody) Apparently many people out there feel that paid links are just another form of spam that Google should penalize when it come to natural rankings.
To this end, Cutts hinted that […]

April 13th, 2007

Best Tactics for Increasing ROI

By Joe Devlin

The world of internet marketing continues to evolve. With so many different types of online marketing campaigns available to today’s marketers, the question isn’t how to market, but which type of campaign returns the highest ROI.
Given the depth and breadth of marketing tactics available to today’s marketers, it is imperative to utilize […]

April 12th, 2007

PPC Marketing v2.0: Pay Per Call

By Joe Devlin

PPC. The acronym is most commonly associated with Pay Per Click in search marketing, but now there is a new kid in town sporting the same name but with a vastly different reputation. While Pay Per Click has now become a proven marketing commodity, Pay Per Call is a an emerging marketing concept […]

April 12th, 2007

For Whom The Bell Curves

By Joe Devlin

Metrics and analytics are the foundation of the statistical analysis of website data. Once applicable metrics have been established and a reliable and accurate analytic package chosen, one can begin to make inferences from the data every website generates. While most people in the eCommerce trade are aware of popular metrics such as […]

April 10th, 2007

Bringing the Offline Experience Online

By Jody Ferry

When was the last time you found yourself shopping online while being totally immersed in the experience? Most likely it was because you felt a connection to the store or the product itself, in a way that you usually only feel when shopping offline in the actual brick and mortar store. Touching a […]