Ecommerce Conversations
Episodes
Infopia President, CEO and Board Member Bjorn Espenes
15 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Pat Callahan is joined by Bjorn Espenes for a timely discussion about what merchants should be focusing on in the coming weeks before the holiday seas...
TrialPay CEO Alex Rampell
15 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Pat Callahan is joined by Alex Rampell. The two discuss the details of TrialPay, a unique payment platform, which allows customers to pay for one item...
LTU Technologies Vice President Kevin Smith
15 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Pat Callahan is joined by Kevin Smith, as the two discuss copyright infringement and how businesses can protect themselves.This is take 1 from Derek a...
NetSuite Ecommerce Subject Matter Expert Baruch Goldwasser
15 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Contributing Editor Pat Callahan is joined by Baruch Goldwasser for an interesting conversation about, among other things, the future of ecommerce.Thi...
SEOmoz CEO and Co-Founder Rand Fishkin
15 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Contributing Editor Pat Callahan is joined by Rand Fishkin, the CEO and co-founder of SEOmoz.org. The two discuss search engine optimization and writi...
Mercado Software's Sue Chapman, Part 3
15 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Practical Ecommerce and Sue Chapman, director of merchandising solutions at Mercado Software, discuss how online retailers should prepare for the upco...
Mercado Software's Sue Chapman (Part 2)
15 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Practical Ecommerce and Sue Chapman, director of merchandising solutions at Mercado Software, discuss how online retailers should prepare for the upco...
Mercado Software’s Sue Chapman (Part 1)
15 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Sue Chapman, director of merchandising solutions at Mercado Software, discusses how online retailers should prepare for the upcoming holiday shopping ...
Callahan Is Joined By Betterphoto.com’s Jim Miotke (Part 3)
15 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Betterphoto.com’s President and Founder Jim Miotke continues his discussion of the intricacies of product photography.This is take 1 from Derek at V...
Callahan Is Joined By Betterphoto.com’s Jim Miotke (Part 2)
15 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Betterphoto.com’s President and Founder Jim Miotke discusses the intricacies of product photography.This is take 1 from Derek at Voice Jungle.
Betterphoto.com’s Jim Miotke (Part 1)
15 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Practical Ecommerce is joined by Betterphoto.com’s President and Founder Jim Miotke. The two discuss the latest in photography, including tips and t...
Insider Hosting’s CEO Steve Mizrahie
15 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Practical Ecommerce is joined by Insider Hosting’s CEO, Steve MizrahieThis is take 1 from Derek at Voice Jungle.
Matthew MacDonald, Author Of Creating Websites (Part 2)
15 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Listen in as Practical Ecommerce Contributing Editor Pat Callahan is joined by Matthew MacDonald, author of Creating Web Sites: The Missing Manual for...
Matthew MacDonald, Author Of Creating Websites (Part 1)
15 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Listen in as Practical Ecommerce Contributing Editor Pat Callahan is joined by Matthew MacDonald, author of Creating Web Sites: The Missing Manual. Th...
Using Bill Me Later At Ecommerce Sites
15 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Vince Talbert, vice president of marketing for I4 Commerce, discusses the Bill Me Later function that ecommerce merchants can implement at their sites...
Motifmodcom: New Online Store Faces SEO, Marketing Challenges
15 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
MOTIF Modern Living operates a unique contemporary furniture outlet just 10 minutes south of downtown Austin, Texas, and it launched a website last ye...
Wsieworks.com’s Chuck Bankoff: Hiring A Web Developer
15 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Chuck Bankoff, director of web services for web design firm Wsieworks.com, provides tips on what questions should be asked by merchants when they are ...
Jonathan Hochman: Wikipedia and SEO
15 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Stephan Spencer, senior contributor for Practical Ecommerce and author of the popular SEO Report Card for the magazine, talks with SEO specialist Jona...
Peapod.com's Thomas Parkinson (Part 2)
14 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
It takes a special type of visionary to create an entirely new marketplace. Thomas Parkinson and his brother Andrew launched online grocer Peapod in t...
Peapod.com's Thomas Parkinson (Part 1)
14 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
It takes a special type of visionary to create an entirely new marketplace. Thomas Parkinson and his brother Andrew launched online grocer Peapod in t...
Organize.com's Kevin Watts
14 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Organize.com began in 1998 in Riverside, Calif., as Organize Everything — one convenient place to shop for storage and organization solutions. For t...
Sarabearbaskets.com's Melissa Bramlage
14 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
As with many great products in the marketplace, the diaper caddy was conceived out of necessity. Melissa Bramlage, a mother of two, needed a product t...
Appliancepartspros.com's Roman Kagan
14 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Roman Kagan has built a successful niche business selling hard-to-find appliance parts to do-it-yourself types around the country. The site was launch...
Zimini.com's Robert Carlton
14 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Zimini offers a digital couponing and promotion platform to provide merchants and marketers with a robust set of geographic, demographic and interest-...
Foster & Smith's Gordon Magee
14 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
A Foster & Smith catalog is a familiar sight at the home of many pet owners. Whether a household includes dogs, cats, birds, reptiles or other ani...
Web.com's Jeff Stibel
14 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Jeff Stibel is the CEO of Web.com, a company providing an all-in-one hosted solution for business owners wanting to launch a website. Jeff discusses h...
Creativegood.com’s Ed Dawidowicz
14 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
What is one sure-fire way to reduce shopping cart abandonment? Ed Dawidowicz, senior consulting director for Creativegood.com, provides his advice in ...
Website Profile – TreasureBeyondMeasure.com
14 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Patricia Elkins caught the ecommerce bug just like many people do by successfully selling a few items on eBay. It wasn’t long before Elkins was buil...
Craigslist.com’s Craig Newmark
14 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
A latter-day devotee of minimalism is Craig Newmark. Newmark is the founder of the intensely successful Craigslist.com, and, as far as he is concerned...
SLI Systems' Shaun Ryan
14 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Shaun Ryan, CEO of site-search provider SLI Systems, discusses distinctive aspects of his product with Practical Ecommerce’s Mitch Bettis. The two d...
Demandware's Stephan Schambach
14 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Stephan Schambach, CEO of Demandware, provides a host of helpful tips to improve a customer’s experience at your website in a recent interview with ...
Siteworx’s Adelle Emery
14 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
What makes customers unhappy at a website? Adelle Emery, director of customer experience at Siteworx, answers the question and gives website owners ti...
Creativegood.com Consulting Director Ed Dawidowicz
14 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Ed Dawidowicz, senior consulting director for Creativegood.com, provides a series of do-it-yourself tips to improve usability and customer experience ...
Dieselpoint's Chris Cleveland (Part 2)
14 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
In the second of a two-part series, Chris Cleveland CEO of Dieselpoint speaks with Practical Ecommerce’s Contributing Editor Mitch Bettis about how ...
Dieselpoint's Chris Cleveland
14 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
In the first of a two-part series, Chris Cleveland CEO of Dieselpoint speaks with Practical Ecommerce’s Contributing Editor Mitch Bettis about how s...
Carolina Rustica’s Richard Sexton
14 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Sexton has parlayed his 10 years of brick-and-mortar success into a dynamic multichannel sales business with Carolina Rustica. With a combinat...
Merchant Advantage's Michael Lambert
14 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Are you wondering why you should you be pushing products to shopping comparison sites or are you looking for a tool that can help you push products to...
Stone Edge Technology's Barney Stone
14 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Do you need an order management solution to help manage activity from multiple sales channels? Are you struggling to manage the mounds of paperwork fr...
Second Bite's Chad Herman
14 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Do you have trouble with shopping cart abandonment? Research has shown that online consumers abandon their shopping carts 75 percent of the time. Seco...
Infopia's Ralf VonSosen
14 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Ralf VonSosen, vice president of Infopia (www.infopia.com), a company that provides an ecommerce platform to help merchants manage multichannel sales ...
Newsletter Tips from Blue Penguin
14 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Michael J. Katz is founder and “chief penguin” of Blue Penguin Development, Inc., a consulting firm helping companies increase sales by showing CE...
Email Marketing Tips From Clint Smith
14 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
How frequently should I send email marketing messages and newsletters to my customers, what should I put in the subject line to improve the open rate ...
MyEmma.com’s Clint Smith Part 2
14 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Are you still using Outlook Express or another text-based email client to email information to your customer base? Are you afraid to convert to and .h...
Website Profile – Satellite Radio Superstore
14 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Matt and Amiee Moffett launched the Satellite Radio Superstore three years ago have an quickly built their site into one of the top 10 independent ret...
Scene7's Sheila Dahlgren
14 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Scene7 is another leading company in the image management business. Scene7 provides services that can improve the product display features on ecommerc...
Equilibrium’s Sean Barger
14 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Equilibrium is one company in the marketplace that automates imaging solutions and offers various display options including zoom and pan features. Sea...
AuctionCheckout.com’s John Waldron and Sloane Bouchever
14 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
AuctionCheckout offers a competitively priced merchant account package that is an alternative to PayPal. It’s one resource in the marketplace that c...
MyEmma.com's Clint Smith
14 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Clint Smith, co-founder of Emma, discusses several important tips to improve email campaigns and addresses that age-old question of whether an email s...
KEMP's CEO Kevin Mahon
14 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Kevin Mahon, founder and CEO of KEMP, and Peter Melerud, the company’s marketing and business development officer, talked with Practical Ecommerce’...
Delightful Deliveries’ Eric Lituchy
14 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Lituchy is the founder and CEO of Delightfuldeliveries.com, a leading site for gift baskets and unique gift items, such as gourmet food items and...
Wired Magazine's Chris Anderson on 'The Long Tail'
14 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Anderson of Wired Magazine discusses niche markets, changes in the marketplace, and more.This is take 1 from Derek at Voice Jungle.
Website Profile: Christmasnightinc.com
14 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Claire Henderson is the owner and president of ChristmasNightInc.com, a business and website that have evolved through the years, but simple principle...
AbleCommerce’s Mike Randolph
14 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Mike Randolph is the founder and CEO of AbleCommerce. He discusses the merits of a software shopping cart solution, how that differs from hosted solut...
GoECart’s Manish Chowdhary
14 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Manish Chowdhary of GoECart outlines in great detail his vision of the future of online shopping carts as well as discussed some of the differences be...
Yahoo’s Dimitri Krakovsky
14 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Dimitri Krakovsky is the vice president of product, Yahoo! Small Business. He discusses the merits of a hosted shopping cart solution and various tren...
ProStore’s Julian Green
14 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Julian Green, director of ProStores, discusses the landscape of shopping cart options for small ecommerce businesses, some of the merits of a hosted s...
Authorize.Net’s Corey Koenig
14 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Corey Koenig, channel sales manager for Authorize.Net, provides an interesting insight into the landscape of shopping carts and what a payment gateway...
Shopping-cart-reviews.com’s Mark Baartse
14 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Baartse, the creator and operator of Shopping-Cart-Reviews.com visits about different shopping cart software, how to choose software, and what pe...
Buysafe.com Chairman Steve Woda
13 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Steve Woda, the chairman and founder of Buysafe.com, talks about merchant credibility and Buysafe.com’s efforts to make Internet shopping a safer ex...
Zoovy CEO David Steel
13 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
David Steel, CEO of Zoovy.com, talks about internet auction services, Zoovy.com, and touches on some new Web 2.0 topics such as the use of AJAX.This i...
Authorize.Net President Roy Banks
09 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Roy Banks, President of Authorize.Net, speaks with Michael Cox about payment gateways and Authorize.Net.This is take 1 from Derek at Voice Jungle.
osCommerce Project Founders
05 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Harald Ponce de Leon and Christian Lescuyer of the osCommerce Project talks with Practical Ecommerce.This is take 1 from Derek at Voice Jungle.
North Dakota State Senator Dwight Cook
05 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
One of the heads of the Streamlined Sales Tax Project Dwight Cook, a state senator from North Dakota, talks with Practical Ecommerce.This is take 1 fr...
MonsterCommerce's Stephanie Leffler
05 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Stephanie Leffler, the CEO of shopping cart provider MonsterCommerce, talks with Practical Ecommerce.This is take 1 from Derek at Voice Jungle.
Dr. Ralph Wilson on Founding of Web Marketing Today
30 Jun 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Before Google, Netscape, and Internet Explorer, there was Web Marketing Today. Dr. Ralph F. Wilson founded it back in 1995 as a vehicle to supplement ...
As Was CEO Debbie Levitt
11 Jan 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Debbie Levitt and Pat Callahan talk eBay.This is take 1 from Derek at Voice Jungle.