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Ecommerce - Discovering Life�s Best Rewards

Friday, October 31st, 2008

WeÂ’ve all seen those rewards based credit cards. You know, the kind where you spend a dollar and you get a free airline mile or you get cash back whenever you use the credit card. Some even offer poin…

Original post by default@goarticles.com (Scott Lindsay)

Ecommerce - Discovering Life�s Best Rewards

Friday, October 31st, 2008

We’ve all seen those rewards based credit cards. You know, the kind where you spend a dollar and you get a free airline mile or you get cash back whenever you use the credit card. Some even offer poin…

Original post by default@goarticles.com (Scott Lindsay)

FastCompanyTV moves to China (for a visit)

Friday, October 31st, 2008

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Original post by Robert Scoble

Card Processing Rates for ECommerce Merchant Accounts

Friday, October 31st, 2008

As the eCommerce has evolved, the rates at which online transactions are processed have declined. Merchants who have not had their pricing agreements reviewed lately are probably missing out on a subs…

Original post by default@goarticles.com (M. Owen)

Bloggers Digest 10/31/08

Friday, October 31st, 2008

If you’re new here, welcome! And thanks for subscribing to Get Elastic. Friday is Blogger Digest day where we highlight posts from other blogs that are of value and interest to online retailers and Internet marketers.

  • Alexander Interactive examines several recent articles regarding free shipping this holiday season, including USA Today, the New York Times and Ad Age and provides 8 solid recommendations in its white paper Free Shipping: Holiday Hit or Headache?. (This link points to the online version, no download required).
  • On the Practical Ecommerce blog, Brian Getting tackles the web designer’s nemesis - cross-browser compatibility problems with his own 3 group approach to hacking CSS to display nicely for all visitors.
  • Is your site optimized for short attention spans? Justin Palmer provides tips for preventing controllable distractions, creating urgency, recapturing lost opportunities and more.

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Original post by Linda Bustos

All niche product creation has to solve a problem or a particular need! on ecommerce .

Friday, October 31st, 2008

. Pretty much the same as approaching a hobby, niche products creation works better when the creator of the product has passion in what he does. The creator sometimes digs deep into his interests, som…

Original post by default@goarticles.com (simmi 9)

The Ultimate Guide To Making Money Online With eCommerce

Friday, October 31st, 2008

In my last article I talked about the five proven strategies for making money working online and how to work out which one you should chose to pursue, taking into account your resources and personal s…

Original post by default@goarticles.com (John Rattigan)

Make your car a wifi hot spot

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

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Original post by Robert Scoble

Strawberry Revels replace Coffee Revels - the world has gone mad. Vote for your favourite here

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

First the Jonathan and Russell fiasco, now further evidence that the world has gone stark raving bonkers.

After eating healthy for a few days now I decided I deserved a treat in the form of a little bit of chocolate to ease my craving. So I headed to the shop, picked up a bag of my favourite chocolates - Revels, and proceeded to wolf them down like they were the last sweeties on earth. A couple of mouthfuls later I noticed an odd, unexpected taste that I couldn’t quite identify. It was pretty unpleasant, so I looked a bit closer at the packet to see if they were out of date. I wish they had been, as to my horror I noticed the “new sweets” flash on the packet (see pic above) along with a note that coffee had been “evicted” - due to some stupid marketing promotion - and was now replaced by a mystery flavour. So I bit the remaining Revels in half until I saw the culprit, a red Revel! Strawberry! Yuk!!!

Now I like strawberry creams when you get them in boxes of Cadbury Roses etc, but the strawberry Revels are plain disgusting, horrid, rank, rancid and minging - all combined.

I’m gutted. Revels are my favourite sweets ever, I even put up with the horrible toffee ones because the others are so lush. But alas I can not buy any more Revels as the strawberry ones are just disgusting beyond words. I’m very sad.

On the plus side, the rumour is that coffee will make a (very) welcome return in the near future. Not soon enough, in my opinion. I’m going to have to switch to Munchies until that time.

The question is, which do you prefer? Coffee or strawberry. Please vote below and tell everyone you know too! I can’t be the only fan of coffee Revels out there can I?

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll.

What I’m listening to right now: De La Soul - “3 Feet High and Rising” - best hip-hop album in the world ever?

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Strawberry Revels replace Coffee Revels - the world has gone mad. Vote for your favourite here

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Tired of economic bad news? Play free online golf!

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

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Original post by Robert Scoble

ECommerce Payment Choice Best Practices

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Merchants should provide a clear and straightforward way of accommodating the various payment alternatives that they choose to support to address the consumers demands for payment choices at the check…

Original post by default@goarticles.com (M. Owen)

ECommerce Information Security Policy

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Employing measures for protecting personal cardholder information provided in online payment transactions is important not only for reducing fraud but also for building customer confidence. Satisfied …

Original post by default@goarticles.com (M. Owen)

The Ghoulgle Is Back!

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Last Halloween we actually commissioned a local caricaturist to cook up something out of his Doodle Labs, and the result was “Ghoulgle!”

Since we have about 5,000 more subscribers this year than last, I figured we could get away with posting this one again. (If you caught this in your feed reader the first time around, we thank you for pulling through an entire year with us, and if you email your physical address to linda.bustos @ elasticpath.com, I’ll pull a Rackspace and send you a hand-written note).

Ghoulgle Guys

Although today’s posts are a departure from our usual content here, don’t worry - we’ll be back tomorrow with regularly scheduled programming (Friday’s Blogger Digest) and ecommerce tips, tricks and treats (I mean, trends) on Monday.

Next Free Ecommerce Webinar…

Dangerous Marketing Ahead: How to Break Bad Habits and Survive a Deep Recession December 10th, 2008 @ 9am PT/12pm ET
Panelists: Jeff Molander, CEO, Molander &amp Associates, Inc.
Jason Billingsley, VP Innovation, Elastic Path Software
Jonathan Salem Baskin, Entrepreneur, Consultant and Author of the controversial new book, "Branding Only Works on Cattle"
Register to Attend…

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Original post by Linda Bustos

How Ecommerce web design can affect an online business?

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Online tools have empowered business segments worldwide. ‘Sell even when you sleep′ has become the new mantra of success. The pitch of online business and Ecommerce is a continuous transforming one. E…

Original post by default@goarticles.com (anirban)

A “juicy” Silicon Valley startup

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

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Original post by Robert Scoble