4 Facebook Mobile Marketing Tips for Small Businesses – Constant Contact
You may not realize this but, if you’re using Facebook for your business, you’re already leveraging a form of mobile marketing.

5 Advantages of Small Merchants over Industry Giants – Practical eCommerce
In this post, I will discuss some of the reasons why smaller retailers have an edge over the Goliaths in the world of ecommerce.

5 Steps to Create a Website That Both Your Customers & Search Engines Will Love – Search Engine Watch
A major mistake businesses often make when it comes to SEO is optimizing their website at the expense of their customers

Responsive Design and Ecommerce – Lexiconn
Responsive Web Design is all the rage these days. Everyone seems to be talking about it.

The Importance of Search Engine Optimization – ShopSite
With the ever-changing algorithms used by search engines, your SEO strategy is something which requires constant work.

Google rolling out e-commerce customer service ratings – Silicon Valley Business Journal
Starting soon, Google users will be able to rank smaller online retailers by shipping speed, email response times and more.

Three ideas that convert better than a standard carousel – Econsultancy
The conclusion, which all three of us share, is that unadulterated carousels are bad for business!

Using Twitter Hashtags for Ecommerce Marketing – Practical eCommerce
This article outlines 10 ways merchants can use hashtags, along with guidelines for their use.

FOUR PRICING PRINCIPLES TO NEVER FORGET – Intercom 
Geared more for software products or services but still contains useful information

ShopSite Tip – Consistent Image Resizing – Lexiconn
Sometimes a couple of products have images which are huge compared to their neighboring products.  Why are they so large?  It’s usually caused by the image resize settings.

The 10 Most Clickable Twitter Headlines – Mediabistro
Tests have shown that you can increase your conversion rate on a link by 73% when you write a compelling headline.

Pick Your Battles – The Wall Street Journal
Think a rival is taking anonymous swipes at you online? Follow these steps.

Two SEO Checks You Must Do Now – Lexiconn
Ever wonder how easy it is to lose your ranking in Google and Bing? Unfortunately,  a few of our clients found out how easy it was to lose ranking last week.

And in case you missed the latest ShopSite news, here’s a couple of announcements:

Avalara and ShopSite Partner on Sales Tax Integration – Avalara

ShopSite is now available on hosts that use the Softaculous Auto Installer – Softaculous