eCommerce

Un-Official Launch of Our Real Estate Ecommerce Site!

May 23, 2007 eCommerce

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 [...]

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The E-Junkie Shopping Cart: Testimonials & Preliminary Thoughs

May 16, 2007 Commentary

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 gotten anything [...]

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An Alternative E-Commerce Shopping Cart Solution: E-Junkie?

May 14, 2007 eCommerce

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 has made the [...]

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Where are All the Free OSCommerce Templates?

May 4, 2007 eCommerce

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 half-decent [...]

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Setting Up an ECommerce Website: Installation & Basics

May 2, 2007 eCommerce

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 community), [...]

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Easy eCommerce with Shopify; Hosted Online Store Solution

April 9, 2007 eCommerce

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 use, [...]

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What are SSL or TLS Certificates? An Explanation of Web Security Protocols for ECommerce Sites

April 7, 2007 eCommerce

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 sending [...]

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Finding Free Open Source Shopping Carts and Other eCommerce News

April 7, 2007 eCommerce

I found some more good resources for folks looking to get a start in ecommerce: Rating 5 Free Open Source Shopping Carts In Five Free Open Source Shopping Carts, Matt Jackson looks at features such as ease of installation, payment integration, category and product management, customer retention tools, and inventory management, while comparing several shopping [...]

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Gain User Trust with a Privacy Policy on your Website

April 6, 2007 eCommerce

While continuing to research how to create an ecommerce website, I found a decent article (very basic) about getting started selling online. The first thing mentioned in the piece, a discussion about user privacy, will be the focus of this post. First, you will need to write a privacy policy that will protect your company [...]

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Getting Started Setting Up an ECommerce Website: Finding Info

April 6, 2007 eCommerce

Back in November, I posted about exploring ecommerce solutions in an effort to set up an ecommerce site. I was able to get some initial research done, but did not get very far. So, I am now restarting my quest to learn and set up an ecommerce site.. Finding ECommerce Blogs My first step was [...]

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Exploring Wikis and E-Commerce

November 13, 2006 eCommerce

Building a Wiki Site Last month I mentioned that I was looking into setting up a Wiki and that I had chosen MediaWiki to do so. Since then, I’ve set up my first wiki (it is a work in progress), a real estate wiki. The set up was really easy – like most scripts, the [...]