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Make the Wee Hours the Wow Hours

If you’re like most merchants, you have reduced traffic during off-peak hours and you may be perfectly fine with that. But what if you could create special discounts on select products during these hours to lower your abandonment rate and shine some moonlight on your bottom line? Soon, you will be able to do just ... Read More »

May 13, 2015 ·

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Boost Your Paid Search Campaigns

A big part of your marketing budget is spent on paid search campaigns with the expectation that they will drive shoppers to your store and increase sales for the promoted items. Although these shoppers are motivated to buy, many of them still end up abandoning. With our soon-to-be-released upgrade to Cart Closer you can create ... Read More »

May 13, 2015 ·

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Make Mom Feel Special with Appealing Mother’s Day Designs

It’s spring and that means it is time to buy mom something special. Did you know that in terms of spending, Mother’s Day is the 3rd largest shopping day of the year – with close to $20 billion in sales? On average, a consumer will spend more than $160 on gifts for their mother. To ... Read More »

April 9, 2015 ·

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Shopping cart popularity: Winners and Losers

Tom Robertshaw released his October 2012 e-commerce study, where he analyzed the relative popularity of e-commerce shopping carts. He generated a list of the top million websites on the Internet according to Alexa, and then scanned those sites for the presence of code snippets that would indicate whether the site was hosted on one e-commerce ... Read More »

November 20, 2012 ·

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7 Reasons to Add Conversions On Demand Before the Holidays

Conversions On Demand is the first provider of hosted conversion improvement software that tightly integrates with e-commerce platforms like Yahoo! store, Magento, Big Commerce, and others. Its products, like The Cart Closer and Time2Buy, have helped more than 500 small and mid-sized retailers to boost holiday conversion rates and throttle fourth quarter profits. Here are 7 reasons ... Read More »

November 6, 2012 ·

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Bounce Rate vs Percent Add to Cart vs Cart Completion

The conversion rate of your online store is essentially the number of visitors that enter your website and make a purchase. At the aggregate, there are several levels that the visitor must go through in order to actually become the buyer. They include going beyond the entrance click, adding a product to the shopping cart, ... Read More »

July 3, 2012 ·

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Why do people abandon shopping carts?

There are many reasons behind cart abandonment. But I think we can boil those reasons down into 5 major categories: Comparison Shopping Options Confusion Impatience Fear In today’s video, we’ll go through this list and reveal how you may be able to resolve and prevent these cart abandonments from happening on your site. The eCommerce ... Read More »

May 3, 2012 ·

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