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

7 Social Media Tricks You Haven’t Heard Before – Constant Contact
These social media tricks are not complicated and can help you enhance your business’s social media presence, improve your engagement rate, and help you reach new customers.

5 Content Marketing Ideas for December 2014 – PracticalEcommerce
Content marketers have several opportunities to give customers something they like, something that helps them, something that entertains them, or even something that makes them feel good about the holiday season.

ShopSite Tip – Fixing Failed Searches – Lexiconn
Our goal here is to help our customers find the products they can’t find, so let’s view a list of recent Failed Searches.

Thursday is the New Black Friday and Other Holiday Predictions – GetElastic
Smartphone apps allowed shoppers to surf and buy while waiting in long lines, and Thanksgiving doorbusters tired shoppers out, who stayed home to tablet-shop on Black Friday instead.

Just in time for the holidays – Free Shipping Coupon Tutorial – ShopSite, Inc.
The Free Shipping Coupon allows you to offer free shipping to select customers through the use of a coupon. This tutorial will show you how to set up and use this feature.

Twitter’s Business Site, Training Helpful to Ecommerce– PracticalEcommerce
Twitter is possibly the least understood of all social networks used by smaller businesses

Ecommerce Tip: Social Logins For A Better Customer Experience – Lexiconn
According to a recent survey by Janrain, a majority of customers (perhaps as many as 50-80%) prefer to use an existing social media account for log-in/registration on e-commerce sites.

Authorize.net disabling SSLv3 – ShopSite, Inc.
ShopSite has tested ShopSite 10, 11, and 12 against Authorize.Net’s test servers that now have SSLv3 disabled and have not encountered any problems.

ShopSite Tip – Merchant Alerts and Shipping Errors – Lexiconn
Today we’re going to review another common alert tracked in Merchant Alerts – Shipping Errors.

Reward Program Tutorial – ShopSite, Inc.
Allows you to offer deals to your customers such as “Buy one, get one free!”.