Top 5 eCommerce Posts for January

5 Ways to Avoid Looking Like a Newbie Blogger (Even When You Are a Newbie) – Business 2 Community
At some point, we were all newbies, but the last thing you want to do is look like a newbie or make newbie errors.

14 Questions Before You Launch an Ecommerce Site – Practical Ecommerce
An Australian entrepreneur recently earned more than $20,000 in online sales in just four days, only to stop taking orders and sell the business

New Features in ShopSite v12 sp1 – ShopSite, Inc.
Abandoned Cart, Carousel/Slideshow, Product Zoom and new Setup Wizard are just some of the new features.

New wizard quickly walks you through the appropriate setup for your site.

New wizard quickly walks you through the appropriate setup for your site.

ShopSite Tip – Configuring ShipWorks – Lexiconn
It’s quick and easy – you’ll be up and running in no time!

15 Ecommerce Resolutions for 2015 – Get Elastic
Google now highlights mobile friendly sites in search. Make sure you’re not committing any of these 6 mobile SEO sins that may affect your mobile rankings.

New Features in ShopSite v12 sp1

ShopSite version 12 was just updated with service pack 1 (sp1).  Some of the new features in this version include:

  • Abandoned Cart  (Pro)
    ShopSite can now prompt shoppers for an email address when an item is added to the cart. If the shopper provides an email address and doesn’t complete their order, ShopSite can email the shopper at a later date with a reminder about the items in the cart.
  • Carousel/Slideshow banner  (Pro, Manager, Starter)
    ShopSite can now display a slideshow of image links.  These are typically large images shown on the home page.
  • Product Image Zoom (Pro)
    You can now set More Info product images to be zoomable, meaning the customer can mouse over a section of the image and see it enlarged.
  • New Themes (Pro, Manager, Starter)
    There are 18 new themes in this release, all of which support responsive design (automatically resizes to fit your mobile, tablet, and computer screen.)
  • Dimensional Weight Support for FedEx and UPS (Pro, Manager)
    In addition to weight, FedEx and UPS now require that box size be used in shipping calculations.
  • New Human Validation Methods (Pro, Manager, Starter)
    Technically referred to as CAPTCHA, v12 sp1 has two new options including TYPE-IN from Solve Media.
  • New Store Setup Wizard (Pro, Manager, Starter)
    A new even easier to use setup wizard that is optimized for merchants just wanting to add order buttons to an existing site/blog or for those that want ShopSite to create all the store pages.
New wizard quickly walks you through the appropriate setup for your site.

New wizard quickly walks you through the appropriate setup for your site.

Even more new features can be found here:

https://www.shopsite.com/help/12.1/en-US/new-features.html

We’ll detail many of them in future posts.

 

Top 3 eCommerce Posts of December

6 Ecommerce Design Trends for 2015 – Practical Ecommerce
hidden menus (sometimes called hamburger menus because of the icon most often used to represent them) have risen in popularity

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6 simple Small Business Tactics for Better Social Media Connections – Rebekah Radice
While establishing a presence across social media is important, making lasting relationships is the key to long-term success.

Tools, Tips for Collecting Customer Feedback – Practical Ecommerce
Merchants must not underestimate the power of reaching out and gathering feedback directly from customers

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