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		<title>Expert ECommerce Tips: Understanding How Users Read a Website</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:23:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elana Birnbaum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of our clients come to us after spending a significant amount of time and resources designing or redesigning their website, and are still getting poor conversion results.  We see it all the time.  What many clients might not have been aware of is that their new design could have been doomed from the start. [...]


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		<title>Develop Useful Error Pages</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 17:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elana Birnbaum</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO/SEM]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the early days of the web, trying to navigate to a page that wasn&#8217;t there caused your web browser to have something of a minor stroke; it just stopped working, and you weren&#8217;t going anywhere.
Before long, web designers got smarter, and we started using the infamous &#8220;404 Page&#8221; to announce that the page you [...]


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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>
		<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tips and Tricks]]></category>
		<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>Ebusiness: 3 Scenarios</title>
		<link>http://www.ecommercepartners.net/blog/ebusiness-3-scenarios.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 20:27:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elana Birnbaum</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Usability]]></category>

		<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>5 Tips to Make the Most of Black Friday / Cyber Monday</title>
		<link>http://www.ecommercepartners.net/blog/5-tips-to-make-the-most-of-black-friday-cyber-monday.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.ecommercepartners.net/blog/5-tips-to-make-the-most-of-black-friday-cyber-monday.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 19:54:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elana Birnbaum</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ecommerce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEO/SEM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seasonal Shopping]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leaves are turning orange, the weather is bringing people out in scarves and jackets and that means holiday season is just around the corner! Holiday shopping yielded over $2.5 billion in online sales during the 5-day window including Thanksgiving Day, Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Black Friday is the biggest shopping day of the year [...]


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		<title>Real People Visit Your E-commerce Store  &#8211; Ask Them What They Think of Your Site</title>
		<link>http://www.ecommercepartners.net/blog/real-people-visit-your-e-commerce-store-ask-them-what-they-think-of-your-site.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 23:37:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Asi Erenberg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Usability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[analytics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kampyle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[qualitative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[research]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ecommercepartners.net/blog/?p=408</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You lose customers every day, and that’s a fact. Some users visit your site looking for something that you do sell, and then leave without a trace. Others get as far as your shopping cart, and then abandon it for no apparent reason. But these events are not always beyond your control. It’s important to [...]


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		<title>Despite Economic Downturn, Outlook for ECommerce in 2009 Still Bright</title>
		<link>http://www.ecommercepartners.net/blog/despite-economic-downturn-outlook-for-ecommerce-in-2009-still-bright.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.ecommercepartners.net/blog/despite-economic-downturn-outlook-for-ecommerce-in-2009-still-bright.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Asi Erenberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although nothing is certain in today's economy, ecommerce remains a beacon of possibility and profit. Your customers don't have to leave home to buy your products, and it's often more cost-effective to host a virtual storefront than a brick-and-mortar one. Ecommerce sites are well positioned in this turbulent time. However, with the economy in flux and competition intensifying now is certainly not the time to become complacent.


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		<title>Web Usability and Branding &#8211; What Are Your Customers Really Looking For?</title>
		<link>http://www.ecommercepartners.net/blog/web-usability-and-branding-what-are-your-customers-really-looking-for.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 22:47:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sherice Jacob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Usability]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When people talk about how to increase their website conversion rate or build branding, a lot of research, time, money and work go into things like the page design, sales copy, checkout process and a host of other factors.  Of course all those points are important but one of the biggest factors you can [...]


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		<title>ECommerce Partners Wins 2008 Ad Tech Limelight Award (press release)</title>
		<link>http://www.ecommercepartners.net/blog/ecommerce-partners-wins-2008-ad-tech-limelight-award-press-release.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leading Interactive Agency Receives Top Honors for Consumer Website

New York, NY—July 21, 2008—ECommerce Partners, one of the leading digital interactive agencies widely recognized for building successful businesses online, has been awarded Ad Tech’s 2008 Limelight Award for Best Business-to-Consumer Transaction website. ECommerce Partners received top honors for its e-commerce site Anthony Logistics for Men, a [...]


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		<title>How Meta are You?</title>
		<link>http://www.ecommercepartners.net/blog/how-meta-are-you.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:32:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Usability]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ecommercepartners.net/blog/?p=198</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Proper use of meta tags is a crucial part of your web site design, even though you cannot see them on the front end.  It is often the aspects of your ecommerce site design that you donâ€™t see that may help (or hurt) you.
Over this past weekend I came across an excellent blog article [...]


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		<title>Mobile Search &#8211; The 2 Percent &#8230; uh no &#8230; The 2 Inch Solution</title>
		<link>http://www.ecommercepartners.net/blog/mobile-search-the-2-percent-uh-no-the-2-inch-solution.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 21:27:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a truism, but like them all it&#8217;s of course true. Search has transformed our use of the web, and thereby just about everything in modern life.
But that transformation has been slow in getting to my pocket or my belt-clip. A recent survey by the 10 year-old San Francisco-based research firm Media-Screen finds that, although [...]


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		<title>Is Your Site Ready for the Upcoming Holiday Season?</title>
		<link>http://www.ecommercepartners.net/blog/is-your-site-ready-for-the-upcoming-holiday-season.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2006 18:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If the answer is, &#8220;We&#8217;re working on it right now&#8221;, you&#8217;re probably a little too late to make a huge difference this year.   Am I raining on your parade when I say such things?  If I am, I apologize&#8230; but it&#8217;s the truth. Let me explain&#8230;
Internet business and ecommerce is one of [...]


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		<title>White Space Ads &#8211; Taking Advantage of a Fixed Width</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve noticed a trend lately that I find to be pretty interesting&#8230;  As technology improves and the masses buy better computers and more up-to-date monitors, we as web developers make a decision to either grow with the masses or stay safe and design to strict low resolution standards.  For anyone unaware of what [...]


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		<title>SEO in the form of Information Architecture &amp; Logical Categorization</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2006 20:59:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Each time a new site comes in the door for ecommerce development, I&#8217;ll be informed as to whether or not they are going to sign up with our SEO services.  Regardless, I always involve myself in the development of all new sites to ensure proper usability, design and scalability for the future.  But [...]


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		<title>The Many Faces (User Interfaces) of Google</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Sep 2006 19:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the years we&#8217;ve come to know Google and its user interface pretty well.  And much like when you look at the face of your best friend (in my case, Tim), 20 years after they&#8217;ve been your best friend, Google always seems to look the same. But being avid Google users we know better [...]


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		<title>The Times They Are Aâ€™ Changing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 22:15:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gil Levy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to Internet Solutions, Big is No Longer Better
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		<title>Advertisers: Let Us Surf in Peace</title>
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		<dc:creator>Asi Erenberg</dc:creator>
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