Don’t Follow Target.com when Redesigning your Ecommerce Site  – Practical Ecommerce

It made so many changes at once, it will be impossible for the company to really understand which changes helped its conversions and which hurt.

6 Tips for Writing Sensational Mobile-Friendly Subject Lines – Constant Contact
43 percent of all email was opened on a mobile device

Survey: Only 6 Percent Of SMBs Have Mobile Sites, 45 Percent Don’t Have Any Site At All – Marketing Land
US SMBs believed they were losing out on annual revenue of roughly $60,000 on average by not having a mobile optimized site.

5 Tips for Taking Better Product Photos – doba
You have probably noticed that lots of ecommerce websites have pictures of their products on blank backgrounds.

Tutorial on setting up Tax by Zip Code in ShopSite. – ShopSite, Inc.

Is Facebook ‘Dead’ for the Small Business Owner? – The Huffington Post
The most shocking stats are the loss in the teenage demographic (a staggering three million teens in the U.S. alone) and the gain in the older demographics.

The tablet market is slowing — long live the smartphone –  USA TODAY
there are increasing signs that the tablet market, while still growing, is starting to slow.

5 Ways to See How New Customers are Finding Your Business – Constant Contact
Most customers, especially happy ones, are willing to let you know how they ended up on your website or at your front door.

One Simple Tip to Avoid Confusion for Customers Using PayPal – LexiConn
When a customer enters a ship to zip / postal code in the shopping cart that does not match the ship to zip code saved in their PayPal account, this stock warning message appears in the shopping cart.

ShopSite Announces Version 12 is PCI Compliant – ShopSite, Inc.
ShopSite version 12 has been audited and passed validation for the Payment Application Data Security Standard (PA-DSS)

3 Key Business Marketing Trends for 2014 – Small Business Trends
the shine of social media has lost a bit of its luster.

6 Tips for Marketing to Millennials – Practical Ecommerce
Millennials are the roughly 65 million Americans between the ages of 18 and 34, a coveted demographic for brands and merchants.

Holiday sales rise 2.3%, online Christmas spending up 16.5% – LA Times
On Christmas Day alone, online sales surged 16.5% year over year, according to IBM Digital Analytics Benchmark.

2 Trap Doors That Can Derail Your Business In 2014 – Constant Contact
When one of your competitors creates something unique and different about their business, your natural tendency may be to do one of two things:

1. Copy or imitate the improvement
2. Attempt to incrementally improve upon what they just created

How to get more retweets: USE CAPITAL LETTERS – CNET
Another quite moving conclusion is that Sunday is not a day of rest, nor merely a day of worship. It is the day when more people retweet than any other.