Nine Steps to a Better Website

| Marc S. Levitt

Websites have become the most essential marketing tool for businesses. One click from a customer is a valuable opportunity that can make all the difference

Useful Lessons in Website Usability

| Lisa Wehr

A recent survey conducted by Guidance and Synovate found that 36% of online shoppers ran into roadblocks while buying gifts. The roadblocks included factors such as slow load times, problems with or inability to check out, system crashes and more

The Voice of the Corporate Blog

| Chris Baggott

Merchants often pose this question when we discuss implementing a widespread corporate blogging program focused on search acquisition: Who should be blogging at your company?

Behaviorally triggered e-mails

| Ken Magill

One of the truly great mysteries of online marketing is why so few merchants use behaviorally triggered e-mails to boost customers’ recency, frequency,

Circulation techniques

| Gina Valentino

When you should change your catalog circulation plan and more important how to change it is often determined by necessity. And multichannel marketers

The new natural search spam

| Brian Klais

I needed a backyard fire pit, so I revved up the Home Depot Website. The retailer’s navigation saved me time by presorting and filtering the hundreds