Ecommerce

The “Take The Guilt Out Of Online Shipping” Patent

Amazon.com is trying to take the guilt out of online shipping with its patent for “Environmentally conscious electronic transactions” reports Fast Company. The patent, granted earlier this week, explains that Amazon hopes to offer both carbon credits and environmentally friendly shipping options. The catch? You have to wait longer–and pay more–for your packages. An environmentally

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YourDiscountWebsite.com

Nearly nine years ago, I made the first post on this weblog about a company called YourCityguide.net. Whenever John Stewart, the owner of that company sends me an email I almost always post it just because. Here’s his most recent one: As you may remember you featured my first business opportunity at www.yourcityguide.net in your

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Online Shoppers Want One Thing This Holiday Season

According to Website Magazine, e-commerce merchants who are still unsure of what consumers want this holiday season can direct their efforts toward providing user reviews, security verification and fair pricing. In a word, 2010 holiday shoppers are looking for online retailers they can trust. That was the fundamental message from ChannelAdvisor’s 2010 Consumer Shopping Habits

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Soap.com Launches

The founders of Diapers.com today launched Soap.com, a new retail website for household products, vitamins, toliet paper and well, soap, at competitive prices over the internet. I know that my wife has been excitedly awaiting the launch. She’s a big Diapers.com fan is hopeful that low prices from Soap.com will mean that she never has

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Green Depot

Founder and president Sarah Beatty bills Green Depot as the country’s largest green building supplier, with 10 showrooms and 20 warehouses across the Northeast. She says the fast-growing business isn’t expanding merely for the sake of growth, but to make sustainable building products accessible and affordable so they can be easily adopted in standard construction.

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