E-Commerce Ten Years Later – Changes from 2001 to 2011

With the 10th anniversary of 9/11 just passing, it was a good time to reflect on things.  It made me recall, amongst many other things, exactly where I was when I heard the news.  I …

Back To Blogging… Yes, This Blog Lives

I decided to take a year off blogging to organize and dedicate time to some projects, as well as other things. It turned out to take a little longer (about 1 year and 10 months …

Last Season's Black Friday Chaos – Lessons Learned

I won’t be joining the crazy people out there on Black Friday this time around. I prefer to stay in the warmth, at a safe distance away from retail stores.  I intend to do my shopping …

Open Source E-Commerce Storefront Solutions Comparison for ASP.NET and PHP

I’m doing a side project that involves setting up a merchant e-commerce site. What I have come to quickly realize is that there are a ton of e-commerce shopping cart solutions out there! With …

Tips for Getting Started as an E-Commerce Merchant

During the retailer forum session at Search Engine Strategies NYC a member of the audience said “I have a store that I just started up. Right now we are in the $0 dollars sales area. What are …

Duplicate Content Issues – How They Affect You

Duplicate content issues affect a variety of webmasters including: the affiliate marketer, the mashup developer, and the E-Commerce store manager.
Here are some prime examples:

Affiliate site with product descriptions coming from Merchant datafeeds
Shopping mashup where the …

Back To Blogging

I’ve taken several months off of blogging to focus on other things.  However, I’ll be blogging more often starting next week.
First on the list are these topics:

Coverage of Search Engine Strategies in NYC
Updates …

AD:Tech 2006 New York City – Commerce Sessions Recap

This week was my first time attending the largely popular AD:Tech conference. This year the conference had over ten-thousand attendees. While there was a ton going on at the conference, I’ll try to …

Commerce Starter Kit Is Coming Along Nice

The CSK development team recently announced that CSK beta 3 is out. And I must say, their Commerce platform, the CSK community, and their website itself looks like it is coming along quite well. …

Lack of time, Not Bloggers Block

For those regular readers of this blog, you may have noticed that I haven’t had much time recently to update this blog with quality posts recently. It isn’t that I have blogger’s block (like …