I’m a little late getting this out. Been busy launching our latest ShopSite release (see below.) But here now, are my picks for the top 5 eCommerce posts for last month.

Increase Your Sales This Holiday – 6 Tips to Improve Checkout – PayPal
Try out your own checkout process to identify and eliminate steps that can frustrate, confuse or annoy customers.

Google Analytics: Using Site Speed Data to Improve Conversions – Practical Ecommerce
A top priority for a niche merchant in improving the user experience is page load times. Fortunately, Google Analytics has a reporting suite on load times

10 Quick Tricks To Immediately Drive More Traffic to Your Website – Jeff Bullas’s Blog
Your premier, timely, highly relevant content is worth a million dollars… if it’s being seen, that is.

5 Content Marketing Ideas for October 2016 – Practical Ecommerce
It gives readers or viewers something of value — content — that is useful or helpful or entertaining, and in exchange, readers or viewers feel indebted, which may lead some to make a purchase

ShopSite Announces Version 12 SP3 – ShopSite, Inc.
includes updates to Braintree and Worldpay payment gateways as well as improvements to Reviews, Reports, and other features.

3 Cost-Effective Ways to Increase Brand Awareness – Entrepreneur
What’s your business’s biggest problem? It’s not money. It’s not your pricing. And it’s definitely not the economy. The answer is almost always obscurity

10 brilliant examples of calls to action – Econsultancy
there are a number of call to action best practice elements that have been shown to increase the chances of success.

8 Social Media Marketing Hacks to Boost Engagement – TopRank Marketing
there’s several things you can do to give engagement a nice little boost. And the great news is that anyone can do them

7 Ways to Improve Your Instagram Presence – Social Media Today
Here are seven ways you can optimize Instagram to gain new followers and market your business on this ever-growing, image-sharing network

Not Good at Sales? Here Are 5 Easy Ways to Get More Clients – Entrepreneur
I learned how to sell. Sure, I learned a ton of other things, too — but selling is what stands out as the game-changer.