One might say that LearningCart is a little different than those ecommerce platforms you hear most often about.
Sure it has hints of Shopify, like with the ecommerce functionality and customer profile customization. However, you'll find far more that caters to the whole learning management system (LMS) aspect of things.
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There are certain times in life when you need a web page to do something more than just sit there being a web page. You need it to earn its keep. One way to do that is to put it to work for you, so you won't have to hand code every update or page mod. The easiest way to learn how to do something like this is by actually doing it, so in the rest of this article, I'm going to show you one way of implementing a system that will build new web pages for you at the touch of a button.
To achieve success as a retailer in today’s world, you need to sell online. E-commerce has become standard practice. This is especially so in the world’s biggest economies. In 2014 alone, 8.2% of retail in Asia Pacific, 6.7% in Western Europe, and 6.3% in North America was done online. These figures are expected to rise to 18%, 10%, and 9% respectively by 2018. But even in lesser developed economies, e-commerce is becoming increasingly accessible and intuitive. Approximately $2 trillion dollars is spent in online sales a year. If you want to grow as a business, you need to start selling online.
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The Xsellco team has been on our radar for quite some time now, as you can see based on our review of the Xsellco Fusion system a while back.
It turns out that Xsellco has recently updated its user user experience and added quite a few new features, so we wanted to take a look at how things have improved over at Xsellco and show you a few screenshots of the clean new interface that customers are raving about.
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Cart66 is different from other WordPress ecommerce options because, in addition to getting a plugin you also get a suite of hosted services. This means you get features that go beyond what you can do with a plugin alone. For example, Cart66 is the only WordPress ecommerce option that makes your site secure and PCI compliant so you don't even need your own SSL certificate. With Cart66, building and ecommerce site is just like building any other WordPress site because Cart66 handles all of the technical details for ecommerce security for you. Let's take a look at how it all works.
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In the world of online payment systems, the two mighty behemoths are PayPal vs Skrill. Everyone else is a dwarf by comparison, and dwell around the fringes of online payments, and yes that even includes the likes of Payoneer and Authorize.Net (and BitCoin isn't even on the radar for the vast majority of merchants right now).
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The week is coming to an end, and that means it is time for me to have a look at some of the things that has happened in this past week. A lot of really good articles have been posted around the web throughout this past week, they cover topics such as what you need to do to capture your audience, how to chose the right CMS for your ecommerce store, then there was a great article about how Google is starting to rank websites based on their mobile friendliness. Read on to see what other interesting articles were written.
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As you set about doing business on the Web, you're going to encounter three specific types of people:
• Those who want to buy from you
• Those who want to steal from you
• Those who want to steal from those who buy from you
The paradox that every website owner faces is that you want to welcome the first type of person with open arms, but the others you'll want to try to shut out. In a traditional offline store, it's usually easy to sense where trouble is going to come from. Doing business online, however, means you lose that all important intuition.
