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		<title>Don&#8217;t get Promo&#8217;d Out of a Sale</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Something very common in the eCommerce industry is online promotions. So popular are coupon codes, online discount vouchers, and gift certificates that there are entire sites dedicated to promoting promotions. That&#8217;s right! Sites like fatwallet.com, couponcabin.com, and others create online user forums or setup affiliate programs with specific products and plan their business ranking high [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your E-Commerce business relies on Google but are you ready to compete?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First it was a deal with Power Reviews Inc. a few months back. July actually. Recognized as the top review website destination for eCommerce shoppers on the web to date Google is planning on leveraging this platform to drive product reviews. Now we have the purchase of like.com a major comparison website that online customers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://piecommerceblog.com/2010/09/12/your-e-commerce-business-relies-on-google-but-are-you-ready-to-compete/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=your-e-commerce-business-relies-on-google-but-are-you-ready-to-compete</link>
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		<title>Persistance pays&#8230; Really!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Something everybody is familiar with as a shopper but maybe not as an e-commerce e-tailer professional. When we speak about persistence we are not talking about pressuring your customers into buying, even though that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m sure we all want to do. We&#8217;re speaking about persistent cookies. Keeping track of what your customers look at, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://piecommerceblog.com/2010/09/11/persistance-pays-really/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=persistance-pays-really</link>
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		<title>The Evolution of E-Commerce</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wanted to write about something that&#8217;s been on my mind lately. How has e-commerce changed over the last 2 years, 5 years, and 10 years. Taking a look at analyst reports from agencies like Forester and Jupiter Research forecasts are looking to be in the half trillion $500,000,000,000.00 dollar range by 2012. It&#8217;s not just [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://piecommerceblog.com/2010/09/08/the-evolution-of-e-commerce/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=the-evolution-of-e-commerce</link>
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		<title>Your companie&#8217;s ONLY sales person = Your e-commerce website</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Something brought up to me over the weekend. I was enjoying dinner with a good of mine who is a VP of Sales for a major software company. We were discussing his latest quarter and I started in on eCommerce and shopping carts. Something came from the conversation that made a lot of sense. You [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://piecommerceblog.com/2010/09/06/your-companies-only-sales-person-your-e-commerce-website/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=your-companies-only-sales-person-your-e-commerce-website</link>
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		<title>The top 5 reasons I&#8217;m clicking away from your online storefront</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve all been there and most of us have done it. Have you put something on your website that you absolutely hate just to see if you can get an extra sale or two per month out of it? You know what I mean, you&#8217;re afraid that even the most naive customers might walk away [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://piecommerceblog.com/2010/09/05/the-top-5-reasons-im-clicking-away-from-your-online-storefront/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=the-top-5-reasons-im-clicking-away-from-your-online-storefront</link>
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		<title>Build an Optimized Shopping Cart</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re selling your product primarily online you know that cost per acquisition or CPA plays a major role in your profit margins. Basically, in one way or another you&#8217;re paying for every customer you have. The challenge is that for every one customer that actually commits and purchases your product there are probably many [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://piecommerceblog.com/2010/09/01/build-an-optimized-shopping-cart/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=build-an-optimized-shopping-cart</link>
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		<title>Shopping Cart Review Sites</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well if you&#8217;re reading this chances are you either have an e-commerce site that is live and doing business or you are at least contemplating launching your very own online store front. One of the first steps you&#8217;ll need to take is making a decision on how you&#8217;ll chose your e-commerce platform. This is not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://piecommerceblog.com/2010/08/31/shopping-cart-review-sites/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=shopping-cart-review-sites</link>
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		<title>Evaluating and Selecting a Hosted eCommerce Platform or Shopping Cart.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There’s a reason why companies like Walmart, Fred Myers, Target, and others have dominated the retail space. Of course, they’ve done exceptional at eliminating costs on the backend and built stores the size of small towns but there is something else they do very well. Successful brick and mortar retail merchants have perfected the art [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://piecommerceblog.com/2010/08/30/evaluating-and-selecting-a-hosted-ecommerce-platform-or-shopping-cart/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=evaluating-and-selecting-a-hosted-ecommerce-platform-or-shopping-cart</link>
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		<title>Is BlackHat SEO killing search as we know it?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, I know it&#8217;s tough to rank up on the G but cmon lately it&#8217;s seeming impossible to do anything right.  G changes everything at least once a quarter now and the black-hatters are catching up too fast for them.  Oh, it&#8217;s keywords, no it&#8217;s meta, no it&#8217;s backlinks, no it&#8217;s pagerank, no it&#8217;s a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://piecommerceblog.com/2010/08/26/is-blackhat-seo-killing-search-as-we-know-it/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=is-blackhat-seo-killing-search-as-we-know-it</link>
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