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Merchant account providers will often automatically assess payment card industry (PCI) compliance fees to all of their ecommerce-merchant customers. However, many merchants don’t qualify for full PCI compliance, and we wondered if some of them are being charged unfairly. We recently asked a PCI compliance expert, Tim Erlin, his views on the matter. Erlin is principal product manager with nCircle, a security consulting and compliance firm and an authorized PCI scanning vendor.

PeC: Does the PCI Security Standards Council dictate uniform fees that merchant account providers can charge <a href=”http://www.gchera.org/go/seo“>online merchants?

Erlin: No, the fees are determined by the merchant account providers themselves.

PeC: If a small business merchant does not quali…

Practical ecommerce counts over 300 different shopping cart systems. In this ongoing “Cart of the Week” feature, we profile a specific cart, asking the cart’s owners and users about its strengths and weaknesses.

Here we profile OXID eShop by OXID eSales, a firm that offers open source and fee-based solutions. The firm’s headquarters is in Freiburg, Germany. We interviewed Roland Fesenmayr, CEO of OXID eSales, about the benefits of his company’s cart. We then asked merchant Karlheinz Stapp for an evaluation. Stapp uses OXID eShop for his <a href=”http://www.gchera.org/go/seo“>online store, JML.

PeC: Please provide some general background on the cart.

Fesenmayr: “OXID eSales provides open source, small-to-medium, and enterprise-level ecommerce software solutions, backed …

Bill McKiernan founded a credit card payment gateway company back in 1994 when the concept of an <a href=”http://www.gchera.org/go/seo“>online “buy” button was new. Fast-forward to 2009 and his company, Cybersource, is a publicly-traded (NASDAQ: CYBS) credit-card-processing colossus. It acts as the payment gateway for such companies as Avis car rental, Facebook and Fandango, among thousands of other notable companies.

In November 2007, Cybersource acquired Authorize.Net, another early-day payment gateway company. Authorize.Net focuses on smaller <a href=”http://www.gchera.org/go/seo“>online businesses and had grown to over 200,000 merchant customers at the time of the acquisition.

Combined, Cybersource posted revenues of over $229 million in 2008 and recorded over 1.5 billion separate transactions. McKiernan, a …

“Lessons Learned” is a biweekly series where we ask ecommerce business owners to share their experiences and advice. For this installment, we interviewed Jonathan Juriga, the president and owner of J&J Furniture, Inc., Yoursleepstore.com and Yourmedicalsupplystore.com based in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. Juriga also owns an Internet development company, 14 East, which supplies most of the technology and advertising necessary for his <a href=”http://www.gchera.org/go/seo“>online stores.

Juriga and four employees run the two stores, which have been <a href=”http://www.gchera.org/go/seo“>online since 2005. The stores offer more than 1,000 individual products between them, garnering approximately $350,000 in annual revenue. Here we give you Juriga’s experience and suggestions.

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Although many ecommerce merchants consider Amazon to be tough competitor, some <a href=”http://www.gchera.org/go/seo“>online shopkeepers can boost sales and send traffic back to their own <a href=”http://www.gchera.org/go/seo“>site using two of Amazon’s ecommerce services.

Selling on Amazon and Product Ads on Amazon are two Amazon services that many retail ecommerce businesses can use, taking advantage of Amazon’s brand and web traffic to improve sales. In this ecommerce Know-How, I will describe these services, explain how to use them to improve your business, and point out the potential costs and pitfalls.

Selling on Amazon is Like a Comparison Shopping <a href=”http://www.gchera.org/go/seo“>site, But with More Traffic

According to Internet data company, comScore, Amazon.com had more than 54.5 million unique visitors from the U.S. alone in January…

If you think holiday marketing begins on Halloween and ends on New Year’s Day, think again. The prime holiday marketing season actually begins on January 1st, and doesn’t stop. For a retailer, gift-giving occasions throughout the year shouldn’t be overlooked. There’s Easter, St. Patrick’s Day, Valentine’s Day and the winter holidays, of course, but every month offers at least one opportunity to market your business for a holiday.

Choose the Important Holidays for Your Business

First identify the holidays you will target. There are obscure and unusual holidays for just about every day of the year, and depending on your merchandise some will serve you better than others. For instance, in August, which lacks a major federal holiday, you …

Back in April 2008, my company launched a new initiative to create a direct-sell opportunity with our product line. We spent some time talking to our development team to create a “shopping cart” for our customers, but found that time and money can be saved by using a shopping cart template, instead. I will admit that we should have gone this route from the onset.

The internet has allowed the public to browse, and buy items <a href=”http://www.gchera.org/go/seo“>online for over 14 years now. The last eight years has really seen an increase in this type of traffic. To increase our dollars from regular foot traffic, we decided it was time to branch out to e commerce. We have a useful web<a href=”http://www.gchera.org/go/seo“>site for general information about our store, and our products, but no real descriptions. We have now come to the conclusion that a total revamp would be better suited to help bring in new customers, while better serving those we already have.

Our <a href=”http://www.gchera.org/go/seo“>site is not a one-size-fits-all type, but one we had designed specifically for us to meet our needs. That is why we considered having a shopping cart built from the ground up so that we can have what we want customized on the <a href=”http://www.gchera.org/go/seo“>site to our liking. When doing something like this, you will run into issues with data bases, and bank systems that become a headache after a short while. Once we latched on to a few shopping cart templates, and really saw the potential with them, we only really had to decide on which one.
As I mentioned earlier, this became a cost savings measure on top of everything else, and one that would have saved us thousands in the beginning had we looked better into what was available. Templates of this sort are not free, or inexpensive, but well worth the costs in less than the first year if all things are considered.

A good system will be able to do many things for you. We needed to capture customer information for buying habits, and future visits. A big need here is that we can either predict an item need going forward for regular clients, or create custom offers based on previous product purchases. It is not enough to get new customers, but to keep the ones you already have.
You need to make sure that payment options, and banking systems all work well together to ensure you receive the revenue generated by your <a href=”http://www.gchera.org/go/seo“>site. We work with a smaller, community-based bank, and therefore had to make sure we met their standards for electronic deposits. It is your money, and you want to go to the correct place every time.

One of the biggest needs for this involved our inventory and product offerings. With an electronic system like this, we wanted our inventory tied to the sales system to let us know product levels. We wanted to group items by brand, size, cost, and other drill down variances and search methods. This would make our ability to quickly meet the needs of the client possible. If we can create a speedy, and pleasant shopping experience, we can create new clients, and further elate our current ones by not having them stand in lines in our store.

The best place to start is the internet to find what you want. There are certainly many brands offered from many companies across the country. Do yourself a favor and spend the time necessary to create a needs list so that you can weigh the options offered by all vendors, and also look at their support to make sure you are able to get going with few problems. I will say this again, there is no need to reinvent the wheel. Do some good research on what you need, and get a shopping cart template to save yourself the time you need to sell more products.

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The World Wide web Consortium recently approved new accessibily guidelines. Passed in December 2008, the new “web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0″ is now the official recommendation for web accessibility for the disabled. This new WCAG 2.0 document, a welcomed update, replaces the WCAG 1.0 W3C (World Wide web Consortium) recommendation of 1999.

This article is part one in a series discussing the impact of WCAG 2.0 on your web<a href=”http://www.gchera.org/go/seo“>site.

The new web content accessibility guidelines are designed around four fundamental principles:

Is it perceivable?
Is it operable?
Is it understandable?
Is it robust?

A document (or, web page) is accessible if it meets all four criteria, regardless of the abilities of the users, the tools they are us…

The use of additional domain names can help an ecommerce firm expand its reach. We asked Andrew Hazen to explain how this can work. Hazen is a web marketing pioneer and the founder and CEO of Prime Visibility, a Long Island, New York-based Internet marketing firm that specializes in search engine optimization, pay per click advertising management, and return on investment analysis. He’s recently launched Internetideas.net, a portal for Internet-based businesses.

PeC: Why should merchants consider buying additional domain names?

Hazen: There are many reasons. By having additional domain names that are optimized, you get the benefit of having more real estate on the search engine results page. Another reason might be the domain nam…

Zoomify is a simple to use and easy to implement tool that adds an effective zoom-and-pan feature to product images, allowing customers to see high-resolution details, potentially boosting conversion rates for <a href=”http://www.gchera.org/go/seo“>online merchants.

<a href=”http://www.gchera.org/go/seo“>online shopkeepers have stiff competition from traditional brick-and-mortar stores, massive box-stores like Walmart, and other <a href=”http://www.gchera.org/go/seo“>online purveyors. Almost anything a store owner can do to improve customer experience or better merchandise products can help in such a competitive environment. While some ecommerce content management systems include product image manipulation features (i.e. Magento Commerce), many merchants have to add software to offer professional looking zoom or pan capabilities. Enter Zoomify a si…

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Consumers use linking <a href=”http://www.gchera.org/go/seo“>sites like Facebook, MySpace, and others to keep in touch with friends, according to a new survey from eMarketer.

According to the survey, at least 44 percent of Internet users use a social linking <a href=”http://www.gchera.org/go/seo“>site monthly. Of these socially-connected users, 78.1 percent said that they used services like MySpace and Facebook to stay in touch with friends. Additionally, 50.5 percent of users said that they reconnected with old friends on social linking <a href=”http://www.gchera.org/go/seo“>sites, according to JP Morgan via eMarketer.

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<a href=”http://www.gchera.org/go/seo“>online communities like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Tangle allow members to join groups, post content, and respond to other’s activity. While some marketers have tried to exploit the media, there are positive ways for <a href=”http://www.gchera.org/go/seo“>online merchants to participate in linking networks and build stronger relationships with customers.

Social linking networks represent a fast growing Internet phenomenon that has been unmatched in the web’s short history. Born from the massive blogging movement, <a href=”http://www.gchera.org/go/seo“>sites like Facebook take the idea of a blogroll to a new height, connecting friends and business associates one a single web<a href=”http://www.gchera.org/go/seo“>site. This sort of linking is so popular that 41 percent of Americans participated in some form of social media in 2008, according to eMarketer. …

John Engates is chief technology officer for Rackspace, a preeminent hosting company. Rackspace was launched in San Antonio in 1996 and now, in 2009, the company’s stock is publicly traded. Rackspace’s 2008 revenues exceeded $500 million and they have data centers located around the globe. In this Quick Query, Engates discusses cloud computing and other hosting trends.

PeC: How do you think the hosting landscape will change over the next five years?

Engates: I think that we’ll see a lot of new ways to break into the market. We’ll see new technologies, new players, and new vendors coming into the marketplace. Cloud computing is changing the landscape in a big way. The emergence of virtualization and cloud computing are making acces…

John Engates is chief technology officer for Rackspace, a preeminent hosting company. Rackspace was launched in San Antonio in 1996 and now, in 2009, the company’s stock is publicly traded. Rackspace’s 2008 revenues exceeded $500 million and they have data centers located around the globe. In this Quick Query, Engates discusses cloud computing and other hosting trends.

Pec: How do you think the hosting landscape will change over the next five years?

Engates: I think that we’ll see a lot of new ways to break into the market. We’ll see new technologies, new players, and new vendors coming into the marketplace. Cloud computing is changing the landscape in a big way. The emergence of virtualization and cloud computing are making acce…

Practical ecommerce counts over 300 different shopping cart systems. In this ongoing “Cart of the Week” feature, we profile a specific cart, asking the cart’s owners and users about its strengths and weaknesses.

Here we profile UltraCart, a California-based hosted cart solution that was founded in 1996. Pricing for the cart starts at $49.95 per month. UltraCart typically hosts only the shopping cart portion of an ecommerce <a href=”http://www.gchera.org/go/seo“>site, although it can host the entire <a href=”http://www.gchera.org/go/seo“>site if needed. We interviewed R.J. Sakson, Vice President Sales and marketing, to explain the benefits of his company’s cart. We then asked Cathy Bujold for an evaluation. Bujold uses UltraCart for her <a href=”http://www.gchera.org/go/seo“>online store, Hobbyzone.com.

PeC: Please provide some general background on …

When it comes to pay-per-click advertising campaigns, the most important tools are targeted keywords and relevant landing pages. For targeted keywords, it is possible to develop dynamically inserted keywords simply by monitoring search activity on your <a href=”http://www.gchera.org/go/seo“>site and in your ad campaigns.

Identify Targeted Keywords

Below are some practical tips to help you discover the key phrases consumers are typing into search boxes, and how that knowledge can be used to your advantage.

Here are some suggestions to help develop dynamic keywords:

Create separate campaigns for product groups; ad groups within each campaign would represent actual products or product types/models
Take advantage of the “search” function on your ecommerce <a href=”http://www.gchera.org/go/seo“>site. Talk to …

The perception that search engine optimization is a limitless source of free traffic and sales is one reason that seo campaigns sometimes fail to live up to expectations. Yes, seo efforts can deliver excellent returns on investment. But how much expected return is realistic? This article will help you estimate the potential growth in traffic and sales that seo efforts can drive to your <a href=”http://www.gchera.org/go/seo“>site.

First, you need to know how much traffic and sales natural search drives to your <a href=”http://www.gchera.org/go/seo“>site today. Start by mining your web analytics program to export the amount of natural search-referred traffic and sales that each keyword has driven in the last month. For example, let’s say that you sell power tools <a href=”http://www.gchera.org/go/seo“>online. After you scroll past the keywords for your …

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While <a href=”http://www.gchera.org/go/seo“>online shopkeepers are experts in their industries, they might not be expert at understanding their payment processing service or its statement, which can include adjustments, interchange charges, service charges, fees, and chargebacks.

At its heart, ecommerce is about the exchange of money. Customers pay <a href=”http://www.gchera.org/go/seo“>online for goods and services using a credit card, checking account, payment account (i.e. PayPal), or even a wire transfer; and in turn merchants provide the goods or services ordered. But in all of these transactions there is a payment processor that is assessing fees and charges from every ecommerce merchant for every ecommerce transaction. In this edition of ecommerce Know-How, a recurring Practical ecommerce feature, I’ll wa…

Marketers are known for talking, not listening. That is not to suggest we have not used tools like focus groups, user surveys or other research instruments in the past. It’s just that, in the era of the participatory web, listening is not an option; it is a mandate.

It provides great opportunity to learn at a grassroots level what people really think about your brand, products or services. Indeed, listening to the groundswell of consumer-generated content is the new marketing.

Why Listen

People are talking and they are using the social web - blogs, social networks, wikis, forums, and video - as their mouthpiece. Take, for example, what happened on micro-blogging <a href=”http://www.gchera.org/go/seo“>site Twitter following the Super Bowl. There was an outcry, even a backl…

The CSS opacity property lets web designers define how particular page elements will blend, adding both style and emphasis to important page sections.

Essentially, this property allows you to adjust an element’s translucency, changing the amount of diffused virtual light that seems to pass through a paragraph, image, or other page element. In this web Design Tips, I will briefly discuss browser compatibility for this property, and then I’ll show you how to use the CSS opacity property to add emphasis to a product description.

Using the CSS Opacity Property Video

Browser Incompatibility

The World Wide web Consortium (W3C) establishes web coding standards like the CSS opacity, but for a variety of reasons not every browse…

According to a February 12, 2009 report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, some 11 percent of the U.S. adult population had used Twitter or similar micro-blog personal update services by December 2008. This marks a 22-percent, one-month leap in usage from November 2008.

“Overall, Twitter users engage with news and own technology at the same rates as other Internet users, but the ways in which they use the technology — to communicate, gather and share information — reveals their affinity for mobile, untethered and social opportunities for interaction,” the Pew project said in a release. “Moreover, Twitter as an application allows for and enhances these opportunities, so it is not so surprising that users would engage i…

Audacity is an excellent, free, open source audio editor that makes it a snap for ecommerce merchants to develop customer-engaging podcasts for any <a href=”http://www.gchera.org/go/seo“>online store.

More and more <a href=”http://www.gchera.org/go/seo“>online shopkeepers are turning to rich multimedia content to inform (and even enthrall) Internet shoppers. For example, according to a survey of the e-tailing Group’s top 100 <a href=”http://www.gchera.org/go/seo“>online stores, audio use grew 29.8 percent in the fourth quarter of 2008 compared to the same 2007 quarter. Some merchants are including audio product descriptions or other audio features. Audacity is an excellent tool for recording ecommerce-focused audio, and earns five out of five stars in this The PeC Review.

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“Lessons Learned” is a biweekly series where we ask ecommerce business owners to share their experiences and advice. For this installment, we interviewed Richard Kuipers, owner of Windmill Trading, a Seattle-based <a href=”http://www.gchera.org/go/seo“>online retailer of computer parts and electronics. Kuipers has been the sole operator of the business since 2001, and he has been selling electronics <a href=”http://www.gchera.org/go/seo“>online since 1999. Windmill Trading makes between $250,000 and $500,000 in annual revenue. Here we give you Kuipers’ experience and suggestions.

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“I started on Zen Cart. I downloaded and started configuring, and after a week I still wasn’t done. Running out of time because the holiday season was coming up, I decided I’d get something easier and signed …

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Practical ecommerce counts over 300 different shopping cart systems. In this ongoing “Cart of the Week” feature, we profile a specific cart, asking the cart’s owners and users about its strengths and weaknesses.

Here we profile nopCommerce, a free open-source cart first made available for download in October 2008. The cart is based in Yaroslavl, Russia. We asked Andrei Mazoulnitsyn, CEO of nopCommerce, to explain the benefits of his company’s cart. We then asked nopCommerce customer Nathan Collins, owner of <a href=”http://www.gchera.org/go/seo“>online lingerie retailer Pineappleboudoir.co.uk , for his evaluation of the cart.

PeC: Please provide some general background on the nopCommerce cart.

Mazoulnitsyn: “nopCommerce is an open source ecommerce solution, so it is fr…

booklist is an occasional feature where we ask Internet personalities about the books they read, and why. For this installment, we’ve asked David Heinemeier Hansson, the creator of the Ruby on Rails software framework.

Heinemier Hansson created Rails in 2004 while a student in Denmark. He had been hired by Jason Fried in Chicago to write software for an <a href=”http://www.gchera.org/go/seo“>online collaboration program that would assist Fried, who ran a design firm, dialog with his clients.

To speed up the programming of this specific application, Heinemier Hannson created a framework for the Ruby programming language. He called it Ruby on Rails. He delivered the collaboration program to Fried, who subsequently offered it as a service to other companies.

The service is n…

Let’s face it, we’re in a recession. And while there may not be any such thing as a “recession-proof” marketing plan, there are proven methods that will help you capture <a href=”http://www.gchera.org/go/seo“>online shoppers year round. It starts with integrating search engine optimization (seo) and paid search marketing. And by incorporating these proven methods into a fully integrated marketing strategy, <a href=”http://www.gchera.org/go/seo“>online retailers can be successful.

Paid and Natural Search: A Quick Refresher

First, let’s take a quick refresher and quickly define what we mean by paid and natural search. The term paid search refers to advertisements placed on search engine results pages (SERPs)–typically text links that appear atop and/or listed on the right side of the SERPs. These ads usually consi…

Many <a href=”http://www.gchera.org/go/seo“>online retailers depend on the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to reliably deliver merchandise to customers, since the service is often less expensive than UPS (United Parcel Service) and delivers six days a week, something that UPS charges a significant premium for.

But the USPS lost $2.8 billion last fiscal year. And, for the fiscal first quarter that ended on December 31, 2008, USPS reported a massive $384 million dollar loss—potentially putting the Postal Service on track for yet another multi-billion dollar loss over the next fiscal year.

“We are taking bold steps to cut costs immediately. At the same time, we are examining, realigning and streamlining our business to address longer-term financial pressures while continuing to pro…

Internet use among some of America’s oldest citizens grew 73 percent from 2005 to 2008, significantly narrowing the <a href=”http://www.gchera.org/go/seo“>online generation gap.

While younger consumers, still dominate Internet use, nearly half of Americans aged 70 to 75 are <a href=”http://www.gchera.org/go/seo“>online, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Projects Generations <a href=”http://www.gchera.org/go/seo“>online in 2009 report. Perhaps more important to ecommerce merchants is the fact that 47 percent of Americas older than 72 made <a href=”http://www.gchera.org/go/seo“>online purchases, making them one of the most likely generation to shop <a href=”http://www.gchera.org/go/seo“>online.

“Compared with teens and Generation Y,” the Pew report said, “older generations use the internet less for socializing and entertainment and more as a tool for information searches, emailing, and buying products.”

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