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Want to Start an Ecommerce Business?

Lay-offs, market crashes, and tight budgets are the reality of thousands of Americans in these dismal times. An E-commerce business seems like the right thing to do, but are people even still buying online in the current economic situation? Recent surveys have shown that people are still making a lot of their purchases online. In fact, people have been online more than ever looking for ...

Tweet Your Way to the Top

With millions of users spending hours a day on social networks such as YouTube, Twitter, and MySpace it can allow for small and medium sized companies to get their name out in front of these loyal video subscribers and micro-bloggers. Once your company has signed up for several of the many social networks it may take some work to help your “popularity” within the social network ...

Essential Aspects | Website Design

When designing a Web site for a client, there are several things you must understand about their business before ever putting pen to paper (or mouse to computer). You need to know the direction the client wants to take with the project. Is the site for online sales or is it to advertise an idea or a service? This will ultimately decide how your overall layout will look. Is this a Web ...

Search Engine Placement Study

What is My Percentage of Being Seen Sure, everyone knows you’re the best if you’re #1 on Google. Well, the majority of people can’t claim that fame. Ever wonder where people go after reading the top line? The people at Cornell University did. An Eye Tracking study was done in order to gain better insight into how web users read and filter the information in front of them when doing a ...

The Power of Social Media

With social media rising to the center of the marketing and advertising corral, places like Twitter, Facebook and Digg are becoming more and more necessary for small to medium and even large businesses. These platforms allow customers to feel connected with a store’s sense of “service” and it sort of brings them down the “average Joe’s” level. It ...