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Recent E-commerce Articles

It's Coming: Tech Industry to Slow Down

Read between the lines of the leading tech companies' earnings and you'll find grim takeaways for any business in the industry.  Read more

Are Online Ads Getting Too Expensive?

A recent report suggests the days of cheap online advertising are dwindling. But a look at the numbers reveals a more complicated picture.  Read more

Google's Earnings: Good News for Advertisers

Buried in the search giant's third-quarter earnings is a stat every e-commerce company should know.  Read more

How to Scale a Start-up Using Social Media

Online food ordering service Eat24 gets about a million visits a month and will reach $150 million in sales this year. Here's how it happened.  Read more

PayPal Offers 'Bill Me Later' for Small Businesses

Just in time for the holiday shopping season, PayPal will let you offer customers a buy now, pay later option. Bonus: You get paid right away.  Read more

Going Mobile? Make It More Than a Marketing Strategy

Smartphones and tablets are becoming an important tool for satisfying your customers' needs, not just for trying to sell to them. Are you ready?  Read more

How to Dramatically Improve SEO

Here's an easy way to determine what your customers want--and how to best meet their needs.  Read more

How to Choose the Best Platform for Your App

Do you develop on Apple iOS, Google Android, or Windows? Or all of the above? Check out the pros and cons for the major platforms.  Read more

7 Web Tools Every Start-Up Needs

Whether you're just starting up or need a way to manage existing operations, these tools have you covered.  Read more

Study: Social Media Just Doesn't Sell

A new study finds just 1% of sales come through social sites. Are you spending too much time on making your brand look great on social media?  Read more

Facebook Gifts: Shifting the Future of E-commerce?

The world's biggest social network is dipping its toe into retail, aiming to boost its revenue per user significantly. Here's how it will work, and why it'...  Read more

Future of Mobile Apps: 4 Predictions

More than 5,500 software developers were asked to look into their crystal balls. Here's what they saw.  Read more

3 Ways to Deal With Disaster

Here's how a veteran entrepreneur keeps from going bonkers when absolutely everything seems to go wrong.  Read more

Survival Skills Every Entrepreneur Needs

Technology can make your job easier. But when something goes wrong, you need basic business instincts to back you up.  Read more

Why Apple's Maps Flap Could Make Your Life Harder

Don't think Apple's buggy new Maps app affects your business? Think again.  Read more

Want to Ride the iPhone 5 Wave? Get into Apple's Passbook

iPhone 5 customers will be able to store loyalty cards and coupons on their devices. Here's how to make sure they can access yours, too.  Read more

Innovation Secrets From Apple, Priceline & Spotify

Find out why your customers come to you. And focus on making whatever that is faster and easier to get.  Read more

Daily Deals: Not Dead Yet

New data suggests that while the explosive growth may be over, the industry is hardly on its deathbed.  Read more

An Open Letter to Mark Zuckerberg

Inc.com columnist Phil Simon says Facebook could solve a few key problems with one simple solution: Charge users--they'll pay.  Read more

Most Important Clicks to Track on Your Website

That SEO strategy is all for naught if you're not watching the right metrics. Here's how to measure success.  Read more

Online Advertising: Surprising New Finding

Research suggests you might be using the wrong metric to measure the success of Web campaigns.  Read more

Which Mobile Payment Service Is Best for Your Business?

The race to dominate the mobile payment industry is on. Here's how six top contenders stack up.  Read more

6 Sales Tips From Istanbul's Grand Bazaar

Competition is fierce inside this ancient, 5,000-shop market. Here's how the best merchants stand out--and what you can learn from them.  Read more

7 Tools to Get More Out of Pinterest

If you're going to use the photo-pinning platform, turn those "pins" into sales. Here are a few tools that can help.  Read more

7 Great Tools for Building a Mobile App

Whether you're comfortable with HTML5 or don't know a single line of code, there's a tool for you.  Read more

Facebook's Biggest Problem

The social network is making money--but not enough for Wall Street. Here's why small business, in part, is to blame.  Read more

2 Web Metrics Every Entrepreneur Should Know

What do visitors really do when they come to your website? These two metrics will tell you.  Read more

Where Zynga Went Wrong

It's official: The business is stalling, and Zynga's prospects don't look good. Here's what happened.  Read more

7 Simple Tools to Keep Your Start-up Organized

Filing expenses, managing leads, tracking website bugs: all crucial processes--and potential time sucks. These online tools can help.  Read more

Reinventing the Billboard

This Chicago start-up aims to remake old-school, outdoor advertising. Here's why Groupon and Clear Channel have already signed up.  Read more

How Google Is Killing Organic Search

If your business depends on customers finding you in search results, you're in trouble--and it's likely to get worse.  Read more

4 Secrets for Marketing on Pinterest

Can't spend as much as you'd like to on marketing? Here's how one clothing company uses Pinterest to close the gap.  Read more

Grow Your Business by Buying Domain Names

Sometimes acquiring another domain is the cheapest way to increase leads and sales.  Read more

The Short Shelf Life of a Facebook Post

A new report reveals just how long your Facebook posts make an impact. Spoiler: It's probably a lot shorter than you think.  Read more

Is Your Customer a Mac or a PC?

You might want to find out: Orbitz shows higher-priced deals to Mac users because they tend to spend more. But be careful with the data you find.  Read more