As summer starts to draw to a close, we start to turn our attention back to our businesses. The Christmas shopping season is right around the corner… I’ve listed a few links below that I found to be worth a read from the past month. TOP PICK:How to Make Your Customer Service Shine – Practical [...]

If you use real-time FedEx shipping rates in your online store, were you aware of the FedEx planned outages coming up next month? If not, this could cost you lost sales, as your cart would error out instead of returning shipping options. All it takes is a simple email signup…

This was the rainbow we saw overlooking Lake George last week. It was a nice vacation, but now it’s back to reality.

If you’re also back at work, here are a few articles from July I found interesting and helpful to ecommerce merchants…

As we mentioned last week, Google is requiring more data for product feeds. One of the new required fields is “Google Product Category”. However, Google also has a field named “Product Type” that is “strongly recommended”. Product Type has been around for a while.

Confused yet?

Google is once again making changes to their Google Product Search Feed Specifications for ecommerce merchants. In a recent blog post, Google states the latest changes are going to become “law” on September 22, 2011.

Google’s blog post has a good overview of the changes, but I thought I’d take a detailed look at the actual requirements so merchants can update their feeds to be in compliance…