Archive for the ‘e-commerce’ Category

VisaBuxx… Teach your kids about Money with Real Money?

Saturday, August 5th, 2006

I just heard about this program offered by VISA yesterday. It’s a program that VISA has in place and is aimed right at the teen market. Some of the benefits they say to teens… Independence to make responsible purchases without having to borrow a credit card or carry lots ...

Usability: Develop and Design with Customers in Mind

Friday, August 4th, 2006

When you are first planning out your business whether it is online or offline most professionals will develop a business plan, a marketing plan, an advertising plan but many people ‘miss the boat’ when it comes to a usability plan. While this sort of plan could be viewed as less important ...

Think again about AdSense

Thursday, August 3rd, 2006

I've never thought personally adsense was a good way to build revenue on a site. Numerous people seem to do alright with Google's AdSense program but it can take away from the impact that a content-based site has. Personally you will never see Adsense on CommerceCubes because i ...

Lets get started with Froogle

Tuesday, July 25th, 2006

Why should you get started using Froogle to promote your business? Well one word really… “FREE”… that’s right, its free! Last time I checked, most comparison shopping engines are most certainly NOT free to advertise with. What does Froogle do? - if you’ve ever used a comparison shopping ...

Why is PayPal a great payment gateway?

Monday, July 17th, 2006

For those of you who may not have much experience using PayPal or may be new to running an online store, I would like to tell you a few reasons why PayPal can be so useful to use. It integrates with pretty much any shopping cart ...

Tips to Prevent Online Credit Card Fraud

Thursday, July 13th, 2006

Well if you’ve ever been a victim of fraud in any way, shape or form then you’ll know that it can just be a pain in the butt trying to figure out how to proceed. Depending on the amounts involved this in some cases can make you totally re-think ...

Looking for Shopping Cart reviews?… Look no further!

Wednesday, July 12th, 2006

I recently found this site that has a pretty extensive section of reviews for shopping carts. It lists just about any and all information that you'd need to make a selection on which shopping cart that you should use for your business. Some major points of interest that this review ...

ASP versus PHP: The Battle in shopping cart Supremacy

Tuesday, July 11th, 2006

Now whether you’ve worked with shopping carts before or not there seems to be two standard forms of programming language used. PHP and ASP PHP is in my opinion the predominant language of e-commerce platforms simply because of the following… its easy to develop the total cost ...

GBuy?… Google Checkout?… the answer to e-commerce?

Saturday, July 8th, 2006

I’ve just been looking into this new piece of payment technology lately. Is there anything that Google cannot do, or will not do? After their answers to advertising and earning advertising revenue I am sure that a few people thought “What’s next?” Apparently, Google Checkout is! As the ...

Ripping apart osCommerce (series)

Friday, June 30th, 2006

I am going to be producing a number of tutorials over the next few weeks about how to use osCommerce. This is where I’d like your feedback. If you are having a problem implementing a contribution, configuring a certain aspect of osCommerce or what ever problem that you may be ...