Who benefits from the Google Product Search change?

The internet has been worked up over the recent changes at Google.  The big change right now is their Google Product search, an essential tool for finding products on the internet is going from a free model to that of paid.  This wreaks of a suggestion put forward by...
Best Shopping Cart for Local Businesses

Best Shopping Cart for Local Businesses

Edited: (10/10/2018) We have updated this post to reflect changes in the shopping carts, popularity and other integration’s versus when this was initially published in 2012. What shopping cart to use? As a local store, you have had a hard enough time competing...

Three Mistakes Stores Make with their Websites

Building a website for the first time? Many times local stores know they need to have a website, and are unsure how to go about it.  Sometimes they do it themselves using a platform they find, other times they get the hard sale from a local web designer selling his...

6 Reasons Every Store Should Have a Website

It doesn’t matter whether you sell products online or just in a local storefront, every store should have a website.  The cost and ease of having a website is getting easier and easier every day.  Many store owners will argue that they don’t need a website since they...

NPR Article about Online Shopping

There is a great article about online shopping at NPR today.  It talks about a woman who does most of her shopping online.  While they talk about free shipping and discounts, never once was it mentioned that she did it to save on Sales Tax.  To quote from the article...