Ecommerce

We will be hosting the first ever EcommerceCon in Louisville, KY on May 11th, 2012.

You can view full details here.

There are some great, knowledgable speakers you'll be able to meet and learn from.

There are only spots for 100 attendees, so register now.

You can contact us with any questions you may have.

Even in this economic slump, online sales continue to surge. According to the AP, IBM has tracked a 16.4% increase in online shopping for the 2011 Christmas season. For those working in the industry, this shouldn't come as too much of a surprise, as we know the trends, and there is only more room to grow.

But here is the true gem: purchases made using mobile devices saw a 172.9% increase from last year.

Wow.

So, still think you can ignore mobile?

Your customers want to buy things with their iPhone or other smart phones. And soon, that could be a deciding factor when someone is thinking of becoming a customer. If you don't offer a clean, easy to use mobile solution, you will start losing sales. It will happen. It probably already has happened.

E-commerce is best described as the art of doing business online…people can buy things, sell things, pay dues, pay bills, make reservations, take donations and handle virtually any kind of financial transaction that once required either a face or face, a telephone or snail mail interaction with the ease of a few clicks of a mouse.

E-Commerce is one of the fastest growing segments of the Internet despite the fact that there have already been many fortunes made selling merchandise online and the big players have long since established strong online e-commerce positions.

TIME Digital’s Bill Syken, offers the following rankings of the “major players” in e-commerce.

BEST OVERALL: