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		<title>Google Updates, A Year in Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 21:49:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elana Birnbaum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For some companies, hitting the one-billion-per-day visitor mark would be enough to sit back and watch the profits roll in. At Google however there’s one thing you can always count on: constant updates aimed at providing users with the best search results possible.
In 2011, Google experimented with thousands of tests to optimize their search and [...]


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		<title>5 Tips to Prepare for a Networking Event</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 21:23:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elana Birnbaum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ask anyone who has been in business for a considerable amount of time, and they&#8217;ll tell you that there are a thousand different ways to be successful. However, there are common habits that persist among those who excel. One commonality is being an effective networker who is able to prepare for an event, work a [...]


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		<title>Top 10 Reasons People Leave Your Website</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 18:16:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elana Birnbaum</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ecommerce]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Usability]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You work hard to bring traffic to your website. You invest money in online marketing strategies such as search engine optimization, pay per click marketing, social media and more. However, many basic issues will drive people away from your website and lower conversion. Luckily, many of these problems can be corrected with a bit of [...]


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		<title>Top 10 Ways to Prep Your Website For Mother’s Day 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 14:44:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elana Birnbaum</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seasonal Shopping]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Mother’s Day classic is serving breakfast in bed. However, not everyone lives with Mom. In fact, most people live too far from Mom  to celebrate the day in person. Because of this, Mother’s Day is one of the most important ecommerce sales holidays of the year. Its seasonal sales volume is second only to [...]


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		<title>Ebusiness: 3 Scenarios</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 20:27:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elana Birnbaum</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ecommercepartners.net/blog/?p=677</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An ecommerce business doesn’t achieve success overnight. Generally a website will have several growth spurts during its lifetime, each requiring a different push to get to the next level. The exact process will vary across industries and product-types, but there are essentially 3 macro-stages:

No existing website
Existing website, low traffic
Existing website, high traffic


There is no strict [...]


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		<title>Dynamic Strategies for Successful Email Marketing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 18:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elana Birnbaum</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With advances in digital technologies, marketing via email has become an essential activity for any business. Unlike traditional mail, emails can be delivered immediately to customers to provide information about products and promotions without the additional overhead of paper, printing and postage for brochures and other promotional materials. However, email is only effective when utilizing [...]


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		<title>Minimize Shopping Cart Abandonment</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:18:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elana Birnbaum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If your business is only converting 1 or 2% of its online shoppers, you are not alone. On average, 98% of people who visit a website will not make a purchase. However, the more shocking statistic involves people who initiate the checkout process &#8211;  two out of 3 online shoppers will put an item [...]


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		<title>E-commerce Marketing: Back to Basics</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2010 20:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elana Birnbaum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Internet marketing is a valuable and necessary part of any e-commerce strategy. There are various marketing techniques ranging from email newsletters to partnering with online affiliates and it is important to understand the available options to select those that are right for your company. At ECommerce Partners, we tend to focus on the marketing channels [...]


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		<title>Pre-Launch Buzz For Your E-Commerce Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 15:57:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elana Birnbaum</dc:creator>
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		<title>Prepare a Holiday Calendar</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 20:38:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elana Birnbaum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Avoiding the Rush
Consumer taste has long been finicky, erratic and trendy. However, while styles and products may change frequently, shopping patterns on the other hand tend to be more recognizable and often consistent. For example, every year, you may predict sales are going to boom in the November/December months. Smart marketing  involves preparing for seasonality [...]


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		<title>Create Your 2011 Budget</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 18:46:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elana Birnbaum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Temptation
Many enterprises both big and small believe the best time to start budget planning is in January. By then, they reason, they’ll have the ability to analyze sales and marketing statistics over the past year and adjust financial planning accordingly. However, in this scenario, companies lose valuable time that could have been spent implementing [...]


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		<title>Strategize For Q4</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 21:37:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elana Birnbaum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever taken a break from holiday shopping to analyze what big retailers do to turn Black Friday weekend into the year’s best figures? We’ll examine some of the big retailer’s success stories, letting you in on their secret tricks that can work for practically any company budget. Despite a sluggish economy, U.S. retailers [...]


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		<title>Build Strong Affiliate Relationships</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 20:56:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elana Birnbaum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Any e-commerce merchant of virtually any size can plug into an affiliate network as an advertiser. Outside of negotiating terms, joining an affiliate network is pretty cut-and-dry. You select a network such as Linkshare, Commission Junction or Connect Commerce (Google) and put some tracking software on your site. That’s the easy part. The hard part [...]


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		<title>How Similar are B2B and B2C Sales?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 14:03:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elana Birnbaum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some people might think, sales are sales, and it doesn’t matter who your customer is along the way because you’re looking for the same result in the end. However, you wouldn’t market to a 5 year old the same way you would to an adult, so why market to a business the same way you [...]


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		<title>Online Sales Leading Above Retail</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elana Birnbaum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Years ago, the Internet was an unpopular shopping channel. Today, an e-business can thrive without a physical location, often surpassing Bricks-and-Mortar (B&#38;M) stores in annual revenues. According to the US Census Bureau, while some retail industries still seem to dominate the market such as health care, in-store sales are falling significantly short of their online [...]


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		<title>Gearing Up for Back-to-School Buyers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:33:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Consorte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have Your Customers Done Their Homework?
Now that it’s the middle of summer, school is the last thing on kids’ minds. But online retailers are already gearing up for what could be a lucrative back-to-school shopping season.  Considering that parents spend around $250 per child for products ranging from backpacks to computer software, savvy online shoppers [...]


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		<dc:creator>Dennis Consorte</dc:creator>
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