E-commerce


Recent E-commerce Articles

E-Town, USA

By Elaine Appleton |  Sep 1, 2000

Entrepreneurs all over the country are taking matters into their own hands and transforming their communities into wired cities. Here's how you can compete f...  Read more

On the Wired Front

By Jill Hecht Maxwell |  Sep 1, 2000

Looking for low-cost real estate, plenty of bandwidth, and a terrific quality of life? These blue-collar communities are designing their own high-tech networ...  Read more

Parallel Universe

By Anne Stuart |  Sep 1, 2000

What's an expanding city to do when it runs out of room? Take it online.  Read more

Getting a Life

By George Gendron |  Aug 1, 2000

em Inc. /em magazine's editor-in-chief discusses having a business em and /em a life; sha...  Read more

Start-Up Diaries: A Vexing Catch-22

By Inc. staff |  Aug 1, 2000

Unable to find funding, three nail-salon entrepreneurs are forced to step back from their dream. Plus: I Inc. /I updates th...  Read more

The Art of the Net

By Ilan Mochari |  Aug 1, 2000

In cyberspace you can shop for everything, even the ultimate anticommodity of art. But does it make sense? 18 CEOs review several Web sites and advise where ...  Read more

The Following Client Has Been Rated R

By Ilan Mochari |  Aug 1, 2000

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Building Smarter Software

By Karen Lake |  Aug 1, 2000

Web users won't put up with sites that don't work. If they come to your business and find pages down, HTML paths that lead nowhere, or other problems, the...  Read more

How important is it for a business plan to identify " barriers to entry" ?

By Rhonda Abrams |  Aug 1, 2000

Internet in Business mentor Bradley Feld answers the following question from an inc.com visitor: When putting together a busines...  Read more

Get Fresh!

By Colleen Burke |  Aug 1, 2000

Outdated news and product data on your site are sure to turn off potential customers. If you want to create a positive experience for your customer while ...  Read more

Obit: Store's Demise Blamed on Web Auctions

By Susan Hansen |  Jul 1, 2000

The owner of a now liquidated estate liquidator blames online auctions for her store's fate. But others think she may have simply priced herself out of exist...  Read more

Tickets to Success

By Emily Barker |  Jul 1, 2000

After transforming his flair for finding and selling tickets to local events into a growing ticket brokerage, Mike Domek took his company online with little ...  Read more

Tracking Time on the Web

By Ilan Mochari |  Jul 1, 2000

A slew of sites claim they'll help you track your billable hours, and some will even generate your invoices -- free. Are they worth your while? Here's what 2...  Read more

How should a brick-and-mortar business approach online marketing?

By Patricia Fripp |  Jul 1, 2000

Marketing & Advertising mentor Jay Conrad Levinson answers the following question from aninc.com user: I am the marketing vice ...  Read more

Hot Tip: Online Shopping

By Anne Marie Borrego |  Jul 1, 2000

Give online shoppers what they really want -- human contact. For E-buyers in search of live help, there's nothing more frustrating than e...  Read more

Fix These Four Fluffy Flaws in Your Web Copy

By Heather Martin |  Jul 1, 2000

Do you have fluffy statements on your Web site that sound cool but don't offer your reader any real information? Don't worry. Here are four common ...  Read more

Upstarts: Personal-Finance Niches

By Ilan Mochari |  Jun 1, 2000

Think the personal-finance industry caters only to older white males? A slew of start-ups are breaking into the personal-finance industry by targeting tradit...  Read more

Bridge Financing over the River Scared

By Andrew Raskin |  Jun 1, 2000

Popular wisdom holds that Internet companies can change business models on a dime. Actually, it takes a whole lot of dimes.  Read more

The Next Next Thing

By Steve Solomon |  Jun 1, 2000

Three entrepreneurs decided they could turn their money-losing brick-and-mortar business into a well-funded dot-com. The question: Will they be able to win S...  Read more

Sites for Singles

By Ned Snell |  Jun 1, 2000

Running a business on your own and looking for some virtual guidance? A panel of entrepreneurs helps us review a handful of Web sites designed for soloists.  Read more

Hot Tip: Trademarks

By Ilan Mochari |  Jun 1, 2000

If your company sells on the Web or even has a bare-bones Web presence, you should consider trademarking your corporate names and symbols in other countri...  Read more

Frat Mixers and Stock Options

By Susan Greco |  Jun 1, 2000

Like many fast-growing companies looking for help, VarsityBooks.com has not been shy about tapping students for ...  Read more

Attracting Search Engines: What Not to Do

By Fredrick Marckini |  Jun 1, 2000

Intentionally launching a Web site that could not be found in any of the major search engines would be a lot like opening a mail-order business and not pu...  Read more

The Missing Link to Your Community

By Heather Duggan |  Jun 1, 2000

Small-business owners: Virtual community vendors have something to say to you. Hear anything? No need to check your hearing, it's just that the vir...  Read more

Fluff Is for Dryer Sheets

By Heather Martin |  Jun 1, 2000

My 10th grade English teacher, Mr. Vandeboe, taught me an important writing lesson that I carry with me to this day: Don't put anything in writing...  Read more

Using Communities as a Marketing Tool

By Sue Boettcher |  Jun 1, 2000

We've talked a lot over the past few weeks about how starting an online community can help you grow your business and retain your clients and customers. B...  Read more

Bundling Offers Can Boost Revenue

By Ola Edvardsson |  Jun 1, 2000

An interesting way to use an affiliate program for your Web site is to have a free offer from an affiliate program bundled together with your own offer.Read more

Media Relations: Three Tips for Getting Heard

By Kelly Strand Anderson |  Jun 1, 2000

One of the most important aspects of PR is media relations: how we communicate and interact with members of the news media. Approaching members of the med...  Read more

Prepare Your Site for Going Global

By John Mulligan |  Jun 1, 2000

For many companies, localization is an afterthought. Whenever I inquire of people in the information technology and/or e-commerce industries whether they ...  Read more

Special Access to a Product or Service

By Raan Marie Rowley |  Jun 1, 2000

Some products and services are available only through specially designated agents. For example, certain brands of hair products, such as Aveda, Matrix, Ne...  Read more

Pick a Web Business Model that Works for You

By Crystal Dreisbach |  Jun 1, 2000

Let's say you're a wool sweater expert and you've decided to start your own Internet business. Well, great! But exactly what sort of business do you want?...  Read more

Almost Free E-commerce

By Jill Hecht Maxwell |  Jun 1, 2000

Becoming an E-business can be cheap and easy -- if you have the time to do it yourself.  Read more

Nailing It

By Anne Stuart |  Jun 1, 2000

In the race to build the first online hardware store, Peter Hunt and Rich Takata put their company in the hands of Xuma, a build-to-order Web site developer.  Read more

Lift Off

By Inc. staff |  Jun 1, 2000

An adapted excerpt from I The Leap: A Memoir of Love and Madness in the Internet Gold Rush, /I Tom Ashbrook's chronicle of ...  Read more

Virtual Swap Meet

By Anne Stuart |  Jun 1, 2000

At yet2.com , one company's mothballed technology can be another's moneymaking treasure. Launched earlier this yea...  Read more