After a TON of work learning about ecommerce, shopping carts, security, vendors, permits, and the law, I am excited to announce that I’m un-officially launching our BiggerPockets Real Estate Investing Store!
The store is now live with a whopping two (2) products available for sale! (hey, we all have to start somewhere)

I’m quite pleased with the […]

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The other day I introduced a new shopping cart to you called E-Junkie. Since then, I’ve spoken to a few people who use the site and wanted to share their thoughts. I did register to give the technology a try, as it really looked intresting to me . . . while I haven’t […]

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digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/gadgets/E_Commerce_Shopping_Cart_for_ANY_Website_Even_MySpace_Pages_Blogs’;While I’ve already begun to set up my e-commerce website (not even close to being complete, BTW) using OSCommerce, I’m still not 100% convinced that I’ve made the right decision. One of my ecommerce mentors Dave Pitlyuk (he doesn’t even know it yet) has suggested that I use ZenCart instead, but that […]

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Non-Existent Free Templates
As many of you now know, I’ve been working on getting an ecommerce website up and running. I decided to use OScommerce for my shopping cart, but now I’m beginning to have second thoughts. I’ve been looking for a few days now and have not been able to find any even […]

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After close to a month of research, exploration, and a lot of procrastination, I’ve come to a decision on the shopping cart solution I’m going to be using on my new online store. I’ve decided to go with OSCommerce for several reasons: affordability (free!), expandability (lots of plug-ins aka contributions), support (huge forum support […]

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Introducing Shopify, A Hosted eCommerce Solution
I just found out about a cool new ecommerce solution called Shopify. The site is a beautifully designed web 2.0, Ruby on Rails hosted ecommerce site. According to the few reviews that I found about the site, setup was extremely quick and easy.
The site is free to […]

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ECommerce and Shopping Cart Security: What Are SSL/TLS Certificates
We’ve all seen it before . . . when we go to a website with a secure connection, there is a little lock in the bottom right corner of our browser. It usually shows up on shopping sites or other places where we might be […]

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