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Seven tips to help your online marketing efforts

February 12, 2010
By sparks

Like most things in life, there is no easy way to get a quick result or in the case of ecommerce to get a quick sale, however heres a few tips that might help some
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New Amazon Inventory Loader Template

February 11, 2010
By sparks

If you are using our Feed Manager Pro Bundle (all Feeds) to maintain your amazon listings then you may be interested to find that today Amazon have updated the inventory loader template..
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X-Cart 4.3.1 released

February 11, 2010
By sparks

Announced on 02/02/10 X-cart 4.3.1 has been released along with the upgrade packs.  No real new features on this build and it’s nice to see a small”ish” change log this time around.
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What skin are you using?

February 1, 2010
By sparks

Some sites like to have a skin directory other than the factory preset of skin1, perhaps it’s the name of the store or something like that. If you then come to do some work and your developer isn’t around , how do you find out where that directory is which almost all install instructions...
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Why aren’t changes I’ve made to site templates not showing?

February 1, 2010
By sparks

Have you ever attempted your own installation of a module, addon or text block only for no changes to appear on your store.  This can be an ultimate source of frustration to those starting out on the x-cart path to ecommerce so here are a few hints to keep you from going insane..
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Guide: Amazon ZShop Feed

January 13, 2010
By sparks
Guide: Amazon ZShop Feed

If you go down the route of sending your product catalog to places like googlebase, amazon, shopzilla etc you will more than possibly know the pain of downloading your products, sorting, mapping fields and then re uploading. Our Feed Manager Xcart mod takes away the pain from all this and in this post i’ll give...
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Add a menu entry to the admin menu

January 13, 2010
By sparks

Sounds easy doesn’t it, adding a link to something on the back end of your x cart site. Perhaps to our feedcentre or marketing manager or just a link so somewhere but how do you do it since a LOT has changed in the 4.3 release..
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Workaround X-cart’s not importing category meta information

January 11, 2010
By sparks

Just came across and interesting titbit of information whilst browsing one of the many x-cart forums.  This is relevant for all those who like to import and export their catalogue for editing in something a bit beefier than the x-cart interface (excel geeks like myself)…
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RSS Product Feed

January 4, 2010
By sparks
RSS Product Feed

One of the more common questions asked by those running an ecommerce store is how do you increase the news and coverage of your site and services.  There is the usual way of doing a post on Dmoz and google, waiting a little bit but thats more for the site.  To get a more...
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