Ok, so I finally found myself looking at twitter and was wondering what this was all about. So here ya go. You can now follow clickcarts on http://www.twitter.com/clickcarts have fun. and twet back if you would like!

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Happy New Years!

There are lots of tools out there to help you promote and help get your business of the ground or just to keep it going. Being in the business for many years I would like to think I've been there done that, certainly that not the case. One of my good friends recently just referred me to a great product called WebCEO. There product helps large and small businesses promote and post your online store / website to many search engines. If you haven't heard of it you can go check out there website at webceo.com.

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Ecommerce with Intelligence

Last Week The Federal Trade Commission has approved four new rules. The new rule provisions address four topics when sending Commercial email.

(1) an e-mail recipient cannot be required to pay a fee, provide information other than his or her e-mail address and opt-out preferences, or take any steps other than sending a reply e-mail message or visiting a single Internet Web page to opt out of receiving future e-mail from a sender;

(2) the definition of “sender” was modified to make it easier to determine which of multiple parties advertising in a single e-mail message is responsible for complying with the Act’s opt-out requirements;

(3) a “sender” of commercial e-mail can include an accurately-registered post office box or private mailbox established under United States Postal Service regulations to satisfy the Act’s requirement that a commercial e-mail display a “valid physical postal address”;

(4) a definition of the term “person” was added to clarify that CAN-SPAM’s obligations are not limited to natural persons.


Source and full story: http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2008/05/canspam.shtm

http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/buspubs/canspam.shtm

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If you're a designer, we'd like a few new eCommerce designs for ClickCarts. We'd love to include your themes in the distribution and post link backs to you! Email me if you'd like design a new theme for us.

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Since it’s the New Year I thought I would write about New Year Resolution I once had. Back in 1994 I had an idea for an online business; I pondered it for a while, talked to friends and family and then made the big leap to start it. Well as you may not know. Starting an online at that time was very time consuming, technology was still in its most infant stages, credit card security wasn't up to par and on top of it all, It costs me a ton of upfront cash for developing my online store. Which in today’s standards it wasn’t much. I had a database of products, images and a simple checkout. Each component took lots of time and energy to manage. Keeping a small business owner (Like myself at the time) away from the real picture, sell sell sell. Now let’s jump ahead to 2008, if you’re like me and had an idea to sell a product (and I mean virtually anything), with a few clicks and a free Google checkout account you’ll be in business in no time flat. At least with ClickCarts :) and every aspect of your online business is managed with easy to use simple tools. Built with the novice in mind, but gives you the power of a top-notch store fronts like amazon.com (who have spent millions on there store), I like to call it ecommerce for dummies, but don’t be afraid anymore, I was there too. So if you’re one of those who said to themselves on New Years “I will start that business this year!” Give us a call, I would love to hear your story.

Below is a couple of links for you reference.

Google checkout:

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