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Many of us remember the days of dial-up internet. The sound of the modem dialing and connecting, the frustration if someone picked up the phone while you were trying to load a webpage or download a song. And yet, we enjoyed everything the internet had...

It used to be the big holiday shopping day was Black Friday. Customers got up early the day after Thanksgiving to storm stores for that holiday season’s hot ticket item, willingly standing in long lines to make sure they got exactly what they wanted. Now...

Perhaps one of the most satisfying aspects of shopping online is the ability to search for precisely the item needed (or wanted) and purchase it. What the shopper doesn’t know is that their ability to do so is fueled by the ecommerce platform’s inventory management...

Despite the many predictions of moving to a paperless society, printing documents is still a common—and sometimes vital—practice in the workplace. In fact, the average office worker prints an average of 10,000 pages per year. This all adds up, with office printing averaging up to...

With the popularity of PayPal and Apple Pay, it’s becoming less and less likely for Americans to carry cash in their wallets. In fact, CNBC found that approximately 3 in 10 adults do not use cash at all for purchases, and those who do carry...

Now may not be the time when most Americans are thinking about state taxes, but ever since the Supreme Court overturned Quill v. North Dakota last June, retailers have been sweating state sales tax. Before online sales became quite as prevalent as they are now,...

Challenge: Pondliner.com, a division of Unit Liner Company, was launched in 1998 to meet market demand for pond and water garden supplies. They have thousands of SKUs and sell everything from complete pond kits to a vast array of individual items including water pumps, outdoor...

No matter how long you’ve been in the workforce, almost everyone remembers learning the basic “Stop, Drop, and Roll” fire safety tip as a kid. Fire and safety precautions in the working world might be a little more complex—protective gear, eye washes, sprinkler systems, and...

Despite the news reports that Google and Amazon do record smart speaker conversations—sometimes whether or not the “hey Google” or “hey Alexa” trigger words have been uttered—and have a team of humans reviewing them, these devices continue to grow in popularity. In fact, in early...

If one of the big ideas behind ecommerce is to simplify how you sell your products to customers, you might wonder why in the world anyone would want to make their ecommerce more complicated by running multiple online storefronts. There are actually several valid reasons...