Help Your Customers Discover Products and Grow Your Average Order Size

July 30, 2010
By sparks
Help Your Customers Discover Products and Grow Your Average Order Size

A simple, effective way to increase your average order size, which you probably see on a daily basis when shopping is to recommend products as they browse through your store and  go through checkout.   You see if often on sites that you might shop at but are you doing the tried and tested tactic?
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Get Personal with Handwritten Notes

July 30, 2010
By sparks

I saw this article on a website and thought it was worth sharing with the good people of this here forum. Looking for a simple way to connect with your customers on a personal level? For the smaller type stores (or even the larger ones if you are brave) how about sending your customers a...
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How To: Make a Google Base Feed With An Alternate Currency

April 16, 2010
By sparks

Ever been in a situation where you need to push your feed to google base but with a different currency? Read on.
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FTS Recent Products Fix for 4.3.1

March 27, 2010
By sparks

FTS Recent Products Fix for 4.3.1. Following recent security updates by Qualiteam to X-cart the following change is needed for the Recent Products module from Firetank. Apply the following changes to prepare.php located in your Recent Product download Find $_trust = array(”GreetingCookie”); and replace with this: $_trust = array(”GreetingCookie”, “fts_recent_products”); Please let us know if there are any other issues.
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Best Wordpress Plugins for Your Business Blog

March 19, 2010
By sparks

When it comes to choosing a content management system (CMS), the small business and Internet marketing crowd has stampeded to Wordpress.org. That’s due to the universe of (mostly) free Wordpress plugins offered around the Web, allowing you to customize your site with bells and whistles unlike any other CMS makes possible. But if running...
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X-cart Security bulletin 2010-17-03

March 19, 2010
By sparks

For all those using the 4.x branch of x-cart, the guys at Qualiteam have posted details of their latest security patch..
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