Archive for February 2010

Ecommerce Holiday Trends From The Small Merchant Perspective

A lot of studies and reports came out after the holidays analyzing how the big online retailers fared during the holiday shopping season. We thought it would be interesting to take a look at how some of our smaller online merchants performed during the past few months.

ShopSite Is Lightweight and Fast, Just Like Facebook

Facebook found out that they could make their website faster and use less resources by converting their PHP code to compiled C++ code. The results were dramatic. If it’s good enough for Facebook, it stands to reason it’s probable a pretty good idea for ecommerce software as well.

Getting the Most Out of the Oprah Effect – How LexiConn Helped Cosabella Increase Sales 2000%

Being on the Oprah Winfrey Show is a huge deal. Some would say it’s the ultimate advertising opportunity. Just being mentioned by Oprah can generate thousands of website visitors. How about if some your products are featured, and even modeled on the show? For one of our hosting clients, Cosabella, they found out what’s it like to be featured on Oprah.