Last year around this time, I wrote a blog post about the 2011 USPS failure. They made a major unannounced change to their rate service that thousands of ecommerce applications depend on for returning shipping rates to customers. It caused major issues and rate problems for many online merchants. Fast forward to 2012, and the [...]

One of our ecommerce hosting clients contacted us a few weeks ago, excited about an upcoming opportunity. Their company was going to be featured on Good Morning America in the popular segment “Deals and Steals”. We have worked with clients who have appeared on The Today Show and Oprah, so we had a good idea of what to expect.

One of our ecommerce clients recently had the opportunity to have national exposure on NBC’s Jills Steals and Deals. This segment on the Today Show on NBC often results in a very high volume of buyers in a very short period of time.

We’ve had a number of clients over the past few years appear on national shows like Oprah, Food Network, NBC, etc… We’ve got some experience with this sort of thing, so we know what to expect and how to plan for it.

Or so we thought…

Email campaigns are an excellent way to keep in touch with your customers and get them to come back to your store, but have you ever wanted to target a specific group based on what they ordered? Maybe you’re carrying new products that would be of special interest to people that purchased something similar in the past, or you just want to send a coupon out to people who ordered a certain product.

ShopSite has just released the latest maintenance version for v11 SP1 (11 SP1 r1, or 11.1.1 numerically).

This version addresses a number of small bugs and adds a few small enhancements to the 11 sp1 release last month.