Merchant Corner, a web design and development company that specializes in ecommerce and ShopSite websites, is currently running a Promotion for their Sprout Commerce ShopSite solution. Merchant Corner works with a number of our clients, and I had the chance to ask Eamon Rodeck a few questions about design and how it relates to ecommerce…

In Parts one and two of this series, we examined how to get products into ShopSite® via the backoffice and with a database upload file (either tab delimited or an actual Excel file). Today we’ll take a look at using an XML file upload to help automate changes.

When you’re working with a More Info page which is not updating, or if it doesn’t exist at all and is not being created for you, there are a few different reasons that may cause this. We’ll explain each one and show how to resolve them.

Last week in Part One, we took a look at how to quickly get your products into ShopSite using just the backoffice admin interface. If you have a large number of products, or you manage your product information with a database or spreadsheet application like Excel, using a web based interface may be too slow or cumbersome. This week we’ll look at using a database upload in ShopSite for easier product management.

There’s a lot of information on the web about how often to blog if your main focus is blogging. In other words, if your “business” is your blog, then you’re in luck. However, for many of our clients, whose primary goal is either ecommerce or their business/service, blogging is something that feeds into their overall objective, but is not their sole focus. So how often do you need to be posting?

There are a number of ways to get your products into ShopSite. In this three part series, we’ll take a look at the various methods, including a few things to look out for when using each function. Today we’ll start with the simplest method, using the web-based ShopSite backoffice to manually add products to your store.

Infomercials are great at targeting their ideal customers and making their message “hit home”. Ecommerce merchants can learn a thing or two (both good and bad) from these infomercials…

It’s the middle of winter, so here are a few gems we pulled from the “cold” web for our top articles and posts for the month of February. Stay warm!

Google Webmaster Tools can now alert webmasters when their website is hacked, or if their forum or blog has a large amount of spam. Make sure you’ve setup your Google account to actually deliver these messages to your email box though, or else you might not know about these problems until it’s too late…

Our latest free whitepaper available for download. It’s a compilation of tips, ideas, and features to help merchants get the most out of their ShopSite ecommerce software. We’ve put together years of experience, seeing what merchants do well, and what they can improve upon in their online stores, and have summed it up in a feature packed PDF.