#SeoTips Back in 2009 I asked a marketing contact at Overstock.com about possibly interviewing Patrick Byrne, the CEO. “I’ll ask him,” the contact replied. An hour or two later, I received an email — from Patrick Byrne. He was available. The d...
#SeoTips Lori McDonald is the founder and CEO of Brilliance, a prominent B2B ecommerce development firm. As of February, she’s also the owner of a specialty food manufacturer called Norsland Lefse. Why would a busy web development executive ac...
#SeoTips I last spoke with Mark Daoust in late 2022. His firm, Quiet Light, a digital business brokerage, had just witnessed a post-pandemic hangover from cheap money and booming ecommerce. A normal acquisition market had returned. We connecte...
#SeoTips I asked Victor Karpenko, the founder of Ukraine-based SeoProfy, to describe the common organic search mistakes of ecommerce merchants. Most are technical, he told me, adding, “You can answer 99% of any SEO question by looking at competi...
#SeoTips All of us here mourn the death last month of Hamlet Batista, our friend and contributor. Hamlet first appeared in Practical Ecommerce in an interview. A mutual acquaintance, an SEO practitioner, had suggested that we publish his views. ...
#SeoTips Contributor Marcia Kaplan emailed me in early February 2020. She described a sickness in China that appeared to be impacting global trade. She called it a virus and suggested that we address it. “Coronavirus Disrupting the Global Econom...
The coronavirus pandemic is forcing many companies to adjust to a home-based workforce. TaxJar, a sales-tax compliance platform, has been entirely remote since its founding seven years ago. All 160 employees work remotely, mainly from their home...
#Ecommerce The rise of Amazon has prompted some observers to suggest independent ecommerce merchants are threatened. Rick Wilson, CEO of Miva, the ecommerce platform, disagrees. He says independent ecommerce is thriving. The post Miva CEO on Thriv...
#Ecommerce Anyone who has purchased used books on Amazon likely encountered Thrift Books. It launched in 2003 as a pure-play Amazon seller. And now, with its own website and sales on other channels, has grown annual revenue to $150 million per ...
