Is your website driving sales or driving them away? New findings in Oneupweb’s latest white paper, Revolutionizing Website Design: The New Rules Of Usability, reveal the new standards in website form and function and show how they directly affect sales.
“Website functionality is comprised of many complex variables,” says Oneupweb Founder and CEO, Lisa Wehr. “And we’ve managed to break down the chaos by uncovering the significant relationship between visual aesthetics, usability and sales.”
And, Oneupweb has uncovered more than the relationship between these three success factors – they’ve distilled the instrumental …

ChannelAdvisor released the second part of the bi-annual study related to consumer buying behavior. Maybe the most important finding for online retailers is that consumers are researching more and spending less. While people are spending a higher percentage of their online time to research products and prices, consumers reporting to spend $0-$20 on online purchases monthly increased by 11 percent (vs Q1 2009) and spenders of over $76 per month decreased by 9 percent.
Another interesting finding is that consumers don’t really realize where they buy, 17 percent believed they had …

“Email Marketing Metrics Report” – 2009 from MailerMailer represents a must-read publication for people interested in email marketing.  The 38-page report is filled with charts, tips and data that provides businesses with relevant information to help them adjust their email marketing strategy to cater to their audience’s changing needs. Here are the main findings for this report:

Email marketing open rates by industry and list size

So, you decided to start a business over Internet. Choosing a good web host straight from the beginning is very important for the success of your business. Below you will find 10 steps to guide your web hosting choice:

Figure out what you want in a webhost first. Do you just want one to play around with and have one for your friends and family or do you want one for your local business or to create a way of making money online? Free web hosts will be fine to play …