Emails are powerful marketing tools because they are very personal. Every email sent to a potential or current customer lands directly in his pocket. Each message sent by your store can be considered a marketing piece. Even your store’s automatic emails, such as order confirmations, account creation or password reminders, can work to encourage customer…
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Authorize.net has completed some important upgrades on the way online stores transfer payment information to their data centers. On a practical level, this means that their subdomain has changed from “secure” to “secure2.” At this point the change is optional but is highly recommended by Authorize.net as it will provide merchants with a superior level…
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Displaying your featured products, new products, best sellers and specials on the home page can be a great way to showcase products for your customers. But with so many elements the home page needs to have it can be tricky to balance space and content in a nice way. Our new free plugin for Zen…
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Zen Cart 1.5.5 is out and you don’t want to miss it. The new version includes important security updates and fixes the issues mentioned in the latest Trustwave Security report. Upgrading the system might impact plugins that “add or change admin functionality”, Zen Cart developers note. But even if users can’t upgrade to the lastest…
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