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.

10 SURPRISING SOCIAL MEDIA STATISTICS THAT WILL MAKE YOU RETHINK YOUR SOCIAL STRATEGY – Fast Company
THE FASTEST GROWING DEMOGRAPHIC ON TWITTER IS THE 55–64 YEAR AGE BRACKET.

16 Free Online Tools for Small Businesses – Practical Ecommerce
Here is a list of online productivity tools for small businesses. There are apps for collaboration, accounting, scheduling, development, customer management, general office tasks, and more.

Distinction — Make It Your Secret Weapon in 2014 – Constant Contact
The mistake happens when we overlook, or fail to clearly define, all of the distinctively awesome things we do.

Quick Thinking Helps Our Ecommerce Merchant Cash In on Good Morning America – Lexiconn
One of our ecommerce ShopSite merchants was recently featured on Good Morning America’s Deals and Steals segment.  It often results in tens of thousands of visitors in a short period of time, and hundreds to thousands of sales in just a few hours.

Introducing ShopSite Version 12 – ShopSite
Here are a few of the most anticipated features released in ShopSite’s version 12

How to Size Images on Social Media: A Cheat Sheet (Infographic) –  Entrepreneur
Now you can create Facebook Timeline images, LinkedIn cover photos, and more without worrying whether your pictures will fit the dimensions required by each platform.

Beautiful Holiday Promotional Emails: 5 Design Rules to Follow – Constant Contact
Well-designed emails will always stand out (in a good way), but over the holiday season, it’s especially important to pay attention to design basics so that your emails get the results you’re aiming for.

3 Misconceptions About Web Analytics – Web Marketing Today
Here are three misconceptions about web analytics that small business owners should be aware of.

13 Terrifying Twitter Mistakes That Can Scare Your Followers Away -Social Media Marketing
let me share with you some very personal mistakes you can make to drive followers away—and all the gruesome details that go with them:

Quick Thinking Helps Our Ecommerce Merchant Cash In on Good Morning America – Lexiconn

The Apache webserver spiked to around 500 simultaneous child processes (thousands of visitors), but did not miss a beat. The cart and checkout process were fast without any errors.