eCommerce Blog

Ever wonder how online retailers get their product images looking perfect?  You don't need to invest hundreds of dollars in a digital camera and you do not need to have any photography experience to take professional photographs of your products.

One of the biggest mistakes we see for those just starting out with an online store, is having poor product images. Amy has posted a great tutorial that takes only a few minutes, and costs less than $5.00 and will have your products looking like they're[...]

The 3dcart team has been hard at work and is excited to announce the launch of FraudWatch's 'Community Alert'— a free service that calculates risk based on the experience of other 3dcart merchants in the community. Community Alert is the first service of its kind in the ecommerce industry and currently in beta to current merchants.

3dcart's CTO and co-founder Jimmy Rodriguez recently shared eCommerce fulfillment expertise with the writers of softwareadvice.com in the article "The Starter’s Guide to Effective eCommerce Fulfillment."

Email still ranks as the most effective inbound marketing channel, converting higher than both search and social.  Monetate's infographic, featured below, depicts just how much more effective email is than its inbound brethren - ranking highest in both average add-to-cart-rates per session and average conversion rates per session.

Join us Tuesday, September 11, 2012 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CDT for our webinar with Bizelo:"Increase Your 3dCart Experience With Bizelo's Inventory Management App."

Have you ever Googled your name or your business' name? If you saw any random results unrelated to you and your business, you might be thinking that there is no way to knock those pages off the front page.

Starting a business is never easy. There are always things that stand in the way of entrepreneurship, whether it be obligations, time or just plain fear.

You want lower processing rates. Every merchant wants to feel that they have wrung every last bit of savings that they possibly could out of their processor. Unfortunately, this challenge is harder to complete than may appear. In fact, because of the complexity of merchant industry pricing it’s the case that even after an apparently successfully negotiation you could still be significantly overpaying on your processing fees.

It’s already Q3 of 2012. Where has the time gone? Here at 3dcart, it’s gone into constant product development. We’ve spent time forming new relationships, honing old ones and developing new built-in features to help you run a more efficient store.

‘What’s in a name?’ is a new series we’re starting to learn the process behind naming some of our favorite companies. Today’s post comes from Hearthside Collection, providing Primitive Country Samplers, Pillows and Home Decor!

We recently launched 3dupsell. The brand new feature helps online retailers recapture shoppers before they leave your site.

The next evolution of the social web is behavioral targeting—and online stores are among the businesses that can benefit hugely.

We are so thrilled to announce our latest partnership with Bizelo! In case you didn't know Bizelo provides small businesses with a large and growing collection of online web applications that are simple to use!

Having a mobile friendly e-Commerce store is more important now than ever before! Data in a recent infographic from Statista, a leading German Internet statistics company, shows that there are close to 120 million smartphone users in the U.S. right now! The number of tablet users isn't too far behind either (around 60 million). This wave of smartphone & tablet users have quadrupled mobile e-Commerce sales over the past two years, proving to shop owners the importance of having a mobile friendly[...]

There is new great news for online retailers! Research firm eMarketer estimates that apparel and accessories will grow by 20 percent, to $40.9 billion this year, up from $34.2 billion in the last year.

So if you're an eTailer, you're in the right industry at the right time. But of course, the growing market opportunity doesn't necessarily mean your online apparel store will automatically see more sales. But with a little hard ( and smart) work and the right eCommerce provider, your potential[...]

When designing your store, you obviously should be focused on your customers' experience, but what some merchants and designers forget is that not every customer is the same. Beyond just design preferences, a portion of your potential customer-base has different abilities and needs when it comes to being able navigate and interact with the Internet. That is why designing with web accessibility in mind is so important.