Knowledge and tools for the small business owner and eCommerce webmaster.

Why Go Web-Hosted?

People often ask why they should invest in a hosted web application. Paying a monthly fee for someone else’s software doesn’t sound like a very good deal at first. I recently joined MightyMerchant’s team, and I can tell you from personal experience, hosted web solutions are a very good deal! I wasted […]

RSS Explained: Create and Use RSS Feeds

Let’s take a look at what RSS is, and the ways it can be used to spread your content and bring visitors to your site. First of all, just what is RSS?
RSS defined
Well, not to make the topic more complicated than it needs to be . . . but there is […]

Website Monitoring Tools-Monitor Your Competition

Chances are you’ve checked out your competition’s websites a time or two. It’s a good idea to do this every now and then. After all, if you don’t occasionally “fraternize with the enemy,” how will you know when they start plotting against you? Perhaps you want to know how often a competitor rotates their featured […]

Comment Tracking With Co.mments.com

This is embarrassing to admit, but before I found Co.mments.com, I would either bookmark the websites of conversation threads I wanted to follow or copy the URL into a word document. I would then revisit these conversations every couple of days to see if anyone had responded to my comments or posted new, interesting comments.
This […]

Catalog Choice - Reduce Unwanted Junk Mail

Ages ago, I ordered something from a catalog, knowing that I would regret it. I paid $11.95 to ship a $4.95 item and said to myself, ‘Just this once, and I’ll never order from them again.’ After that, the catalog onslaught began. Now I receive a catalog from this company about every two weeks.
When […]

Timesaving Web Tools

Think you know all about Dodgeball? Hint: it’s not a game you played in school. Most likely you’ve heard of Del.icio.us and Digg. You probably know that these social sites are for bookmarking and sharing interesting website content. But there’s been an explosion of social sites that offer just about any service you can imagine, […]