Monthly Archives: October 2012

Extensions Create Better Online Merchandising

Ecommerce enables unique marketing and merchandising opportunities for retailers.  Technologies can be used like never before to specifically market items to select customers, while improvements in search features allow customers to find what they are looking for almost before they … Continue reading

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Bringing Life to Apparel Ecommerce

Selling clothing and apparel online is not easy.  Perhaps more so than other types of retailers, the apparel industry has struggled to find ways to sell and market their items effectively into the online environment.  Apparel is what one might … Continue reading

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Take Control of Your Abandoned Carts

Studies show a high percentage of shopping carts on ecommerce stores are abandoned.  One study by Marketing Experiments indicates over 56% of all shopping carts are abandoned before the purchase is completed. There are a number of reasons to explain … Continue reading

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How to Create a Sold Out Event

This past summer, our staff at Upshot Commerce attended a lot of seminars and conferences about the world of ecommerce.  One thing that is very clear from this summer: marketing and selling event tickets is certainly changing. Once marketing seminars … Continue reading

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Drive Sales with Faceted Searching

For most ecommerce retailers out there, having a fast, intelligent search solution is incredibly important.  In an interview with Kerry Murdock of Practical eCommerce, SearchSpring co-Founder Scott Zielinski pointed to a number of surprising statistics about ecommerce shoppers. According to Zielinski’s … Continue reading

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