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For many of us, summertime is filled with sun-soaked days spent away from our computers. And while online consumers are reaching for golf clubs and tanning lotion instead of keyboards, e-store owners are experiencing a sharp dip in sales.

Did you know that e-commerce, which already accounts for 8 percent of all retail states in the U.S., is expected to outpace sales growth at brick-and-mortar stores over the next 5 years, reaching an incredible $370 billion by 2017?

Optimizing any eCommerce store for the best conversion rate is a difficult process. With so many factors to fine tune it can be overwhelming, but thanks to our partners at SearchSpring they've made increasing your conversions their mission. Check out the below infographic to see how adding their features to your site can help you boost sales & reduce cart abandonment.

The eCommerce market in China can seem hard to comprehend. With so many competing companies producing anything & everything for customers worldwide, it's not easy to understand the eCommerce market.  Lucky for all of us, Alibaba has created an infographic to give you a quick & clear introduction to the market.

Though e-commerce has been around for over a decade in Europe, growth is hitting double digits every year and doesn’t seem to be anywhere near leveling off. Learn the key to secure your share of the boom with the payment solution provider whose growth has exceeded the European market 8 years in a row.

We are super excited to hear that our friends & 3dcart partner, Shipstation is now supporting Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA). They've built the integration from the ground up to make the process as clean, simple and seamless as possible. If you already use ShipStation, you know how easy it is to fulfill your own orders through this app. Now, we can help you outsource your fulfill just as easily!

Studies tell us that 65% of shoppers abandon their cart before purchase and the average eCommerce site converts only 2.13% of traffic to sales. Fighting your way through abandoned carts to a higher conversion rate is no small task.  Every page of your site needs to usher shoppers closer to conversion, especially product pages.

Many eCommerce stores are started by entrepreneurs looking to serve a niche market or fill a void in the marketplace. In the case of Skip and Karen Ledingham, they were shocked by the price of polarized sunglasses and set out to create a line of polarized eyewear that was not only stylish but realistically priced.

3dcart version 4.12.1: A Few Small Surprises to Cap Off 2012

The results are in! 2012 was a record-breaking year for eCommerce and Cyber Monday was no different. Overall 2012 saw an increase in online holiday sales, with Thanksgiving increasing whopping 32% more than 2011 and Cyber Monday spending increasing 17%. So just how big was Cyber Monday?

MERCHANT CASE STUDY: ALLPARTS.COM

At 3dcart, we're always writing and sharing tips on how to effectively market your store, but sometimes the best way to learn is by example.  In our new "Merchant Marketing Spotlights" blog series, we will be looking at fellow 3dcart merchants that successfully leveraging social media, and content marketing to grow their brand and land more sales.

If you have hundreds or thousands of SKUs to manage throughout the peak ecommerce season, then you’re most likely to understand how painful and stressful managing your inventory can be.

I bet you have tons of inventory, hundreds of customers, and inefficient methods like Excel for keeping track of all your supplies.

Happy Cyber Monday! Since its inception in 2005, Cyber Monday has been online retailers favorite and craziest day of the year. Experts predict that consumers will spend more online today than any other day of the year - an expected $1.42 Billion. As the below infographic shows, consumers are going to be scouring social media to find the best deals which means merchants need to leverage their social communities to share their virtual-door-buster deals. Here are some last minute Cyber Monday[...]

Our friends at ShipStation have created a useful guide for remembering all of the important holiday shipping dates coming up in the next couple months. Their infographic reminds merchants that FedEx, UPS, and USPS all have some special closures and rules for shipping over the next few weeks and even provides a super useful “ship by” calendar so that you can get all your packages get to customers on time.