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Practical eCommerce counts over 300 different shopping cart systems. In this ongoing “Cart of the Week” feature, we profile a specific cart, asking the cart's owners and users about its strengths and weaknesses. Here we profile ShopVisible, an Atlanta-based hosted cart solution that specializes in highly customized carts for specific ecommerce business needs. ShopVisible bundles start as low as $750 per month after implementation. Other packages can be significantly more expensive, because of extensive customization and enhanced functionality. The cart was launched in 2001. We asked Sean Cook, CEO of ShopVisible, to explain the benefits of his company’s cart. We then asked Rob Satran, a ShopVisible user, for his evaluation of the car...

Lessons Learned is a biweekly series where we ask ecommerce merchants to share their experiences and advice. For this installment, we interviewed Lars Hundley, president of Clean Air Gardening, an online store based in Dallas, Texas that sells environmentally friendly lawn and garden supplies. Hundley founded Clean Air Gardening in 1998. It currently has 11 employees, 1,500 products and garnered approximately $3 million in revenue in 2008. Here we give you Hundley’s experiences and suggestions. Shopping cart software “We use Yahoo! Merchant Solutions Pro as our cart and site hosting for Clean Air Gardening. We've been using it since 1999, and we're still very happy with it. I'm always looking around at other options, but I haven't fo...

According to a Wall Street Journal report, computer maker Dell is trying to rev up its sales slowed by the current personal computer business struggle by producing its own smartphone line. According to recent rumors, the company could debut with its first model as soon as next month.

Thanks to its collaboration with researchers around the globe, Google recently announced on its official blog "Measurement Lab", a site with the aim to feature free and easy to use tools that can help the average Internet user assess whether their ISP is blocking or degrading a certain kind of data packets flowing from and to the user's terminal.

In this third part of a four-part series on Python object types we will wrap up our discussion of lists and introduce you to some remarkable things you can do with dictionaries. This article is excerpted from chapter four of the book em Learning Python Third Edition em written by Mark Lutz O Reilly 2 8 ISBN 596513984 . Copyright 2 8 O Reilly Media Inc. All rights reserved. Used with permission from the publisher. Available from booksellers or direct from O Reilly Media....
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The CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography And Marketing) establishes requirements for those who send commercial email. It spells out penalties for spammers and companies who violate the Act while advertising products in spam, and gives consumers the right to ask emailers to stop spamming them. The Federal Trade Commission is authorized to enforce the CAN-SPAM Act, which also gives the Department of Justice the authority to enforce criminal sanctions. There are four main points to the law. Ban on false or misleading header information. Header information is the e-mail's "From," "To," and routing information. Also included is the originating domain name and e-mail address, which must be accurate ...

MailChimp offers a complete email marketing solution that is simple and inexpensive enough for small businesses but powerful enough for fairly large Internet merchants with sales of $5 million per year or more. According to its staff, MailChimp has over 60,000 users. It manages lists containing over 500,000 million subscribers, and it delivers several million emails every day. Service plans start at just $10 per month. MailChimp offers good reporting, easy integration with Google Analytics, and an Inbox Inspector that lets users test an email campaign in dozens of email clients, mobile clients, and spam filters before it is sent out. The platform is stable, consistent, and reliable. However, we faced a minor challenge with MailChi...

Yesterday, Google announced in its corporate blog that it will introduce the long-awaited offline access feature for Gmail, which the company is slowly rolling out to both consumers and Google Apps Standard Edition users in the U.S. and U.K.

So you’re a skilled developer or design freelancer who has established a handful of customers who pay your bills and provide you with an income. That’s great. You may wish to keep things just the way they are or you might want to build on this and build up your own small business. If you’re [...]

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